Since a few people asked! + You can do it too.
Guidance on Authoring Lexicons
At last weekend's Atmosphere Conference, there were a lot of questions about how author Lexicons. I thought it would be a good idea to share some guidance.
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
7 Reasons Why Standard Reader Is My Choice
Looking for the best way to read ATmosphere blogs? Here are 7 personal reasons why Standard Reader has become my go-to choice for long-form content.
Thinking with Type
The essential and bestselling guide to typography from beloved design educator Ellen Lupton—revised and expanded to include new and additional voices, examples, and principles, and a wider array of typefaces. "Thinking with Type is to typography what Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time is to physics."—I Love TypographyThe bestselling Thinking with Type in a revised and expanded third edition: This is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication. Covering the essentials of typography, this book explores everything from typefaces and type families to kerning and tracking to grids and layout principles.Ellen Lupton provides clear and focused guidance on how letters, words, and paragraphs should be aligned, spaced, ordered, and shaped. Historical and contemporary examples of graphic design show how to learn the rules and how to break them. Critical essays, eye-opening diagrams, helpful exercises, and dozens of examples and illustrations show readers how to be inventive within systems that inform and communicate.Featuring 32 pages of new content, the third edition is revised and refined from cover to cover: More fonts: old fonts, new fonts, weird fonts, libre fonts, Google fonts, Adobe fonts, fonts from independent foundries, and fonts and lettering by women and BIPOC designersIntroductions to diverse writing systems, contributed by expert typographers from around the worldDemonstrations of basic design principles, such as visual balance, Gestalt grouping, and responsive layoutCurrent approaches to typeface design, including variable fonts and optical sizes; tips for readability, legibility, and accessibility; and stunning reproductions from the Letterform Archive Thinking with Type is the typography book for everyone: designers, writers, editors, students, anyone who works with words on page or screen, and enthusiasts of type and lettering. Readers will also love Ellen Lupton's book Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers. Ellen Lupton is a designer, writer, and educator. She has written numerous books about graphic design, including Thinking with Type, Graphic Design Thinking, and Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers. She teaches in the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore (MICA), where she proudly serves as the Betty Cooke and William O. Steinmetz Design Chair. She is Curator Emerita at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City, where her exhibitions included Herbert Bayer: Bauhaus Master and The Senses: Design Beyond Vision. Lupton loves reading, writing, teaching, and learning new things about design.
Readeck: Home
Save interesting articles, long read, pictures, videos. Read or revisit them later.
Readwise: Get the most out of what you read
Easily revisit and learn from your highlights and annotations.
On Writing #3
Periodically I like to gather various observations about writing, and share my perspective.
Reader guide · Standard Reader
How to use Standard Reader — following, reading, listening, and making it yours. No technical knowledge needed.
An open letter to Bluesky Social PBC.: Please stop posting and listen to users and devs - Multi-hyphenate
I'm going to try to be nice and professional
Anti-brainrot aktion: A guide to Digital minimalism for the brokes, queers, disabled, and everyone else. - Multi-hyphenate
Cuz Cal Newport can kind of show his whole lily white rich man ass in his lil book sometimes and the subreddits are just showing off stuff people bought.
Standard Paper — Independent writing, beautifully read
Discover articles from across the atmosphere, gathered in one place for focused reading.
Standard Paper — Independent writing, beautifully read
Discover articles from across the atmosphere, gathered in one place for focused reading.
How to create reading experiences that "go beyond information transmission and toward reader transformation.” Great paper by @blue-phia.bsky.social @lepidopterane.bsky.social @yijunliu.bsky.social Sarah Sterman @sh1m.bsky.social @maxkreminski.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2606.04308 >
