The hardest working font in Manhattan
A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.

The Title Cards in Blade Runner Are Fucking Amazing
Appreciating typography is a study in paradox. The primary goal of well-designed typography is to help you read the words, not appreciate how the words are comp

Goudy Oldstyle in use
Commissioned by ATF and drawn in 1914 [1923 specimen] and first shown in 1916 [Inland Printer, May 1916]. Also known as Goudy Old Style [Goudy] [Frazier].

A corner of the web for builders.
My name is Will King, and I am a design engineer...among many other things. You can find all of that work below and if you see something you like then let's be friends.

The 1960s Art School Experiment That Redefined Creativity
A groundbreaking study revealed that the most compelling artists seek to find problems, not solve them.

Thomas Bradley — Staff Software Engineer
Staff software engineer at Moonfire. Fifteen years shipping frontend at scale. Founder of drizzlelemons.
The Politics of Design: A (Not So) Global Design Manual for Visual Communication
A (Not So) Global Design Manual for Visual Communication

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It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons
Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe
Go Gray, Not Cray: Why You Should Grayscale Your Phone
Framing our phones as glossy portraits of the world comes at a cost: we spend more time gazing instead of gaining utility.
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