I was not able to get my Dear Designer newsletter out yesterday. It's very unusual but extenuating circumstances are sometimes real. In the meantime, today's TypeQuote for your reading pleasure -- and a good article about digital design and accessibility, behind it.

https://typequote.com/

Quote from painter Laura Owens about getting this wrong. #mondaymoment

https://typequote.com/?id=mistakes-are-little-windows-into-what-is-possible

Today’s TypeQuote is from artist Cecily Brown, whose work I simply love.

https://typequote.com/?id=i-feel-glamour-and-danger-belong-in-art

Why aren’t designers are not talking about climate change? Let me count the ways. Here is the latest Dear Designer.

https://deardesigner.substack.com/p/climate-change-isnt-taking-a-break

The American Council on Education is using this fragile time to delay web accessibility implementation. A grotesquerie on top of a travesty.

https://convergeaccessibility.com/2025/06/02/doj-web-accessibility-rule-in-danger/

Dithering is a solution waiting for a problem — and there are lots of design problems that dithering can solve. Bill Atkinson passed away this week — he was a designer and programmer par excellence. RIP, Bill.

https://beyondloom.com/blog/dither.html

No social arrangement stands long. But what took hundreds of years to change previous to the 19th century is now taking jut dozens of months or even weeks.

We are not built for breakneck speed, designers and artists especially. We are witnesses to warnings and there is a lot we can do to mitigate and manage — but also much that we cannot.

https://deardesigner.substack.com/p/are-we-designers-essential-workers

Today’s TypeQuote brought to you by Seth Godin:

The thing you earned, that you depend on, that was hard to do — it’s a gift from your former self. Just because you have a law degree, a travel agency or the ability to do calligraphy in Cyrillic doesn’t mean that your future self is obligated to accept that gift.

https://typequote.com