Robin Rendle

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Websitehttps://robinrendle.com
LocationSan Francisco, CA

This morning I resurrected an old thing I deleted and felt guilty about ever since. I still feel bad I broke all the links to it but hey 11 years of blogging and 1 link being deleted is not bad, right? (Please forgive me I beg you.)

~Hypercard~

https://robinrendle.com/stories/hypercard/

Hypercard

A website is a stack.

I love this website highlighting the Small Web:

https://smallweb.cc/

Seriously, that is the Web I want.

smallweb

a manually curated collection of neat indie websites :)

smallweb

🎉 A new thing I made — Citywide, a sans serif typeface inspired by mid-1900s bus roll signs.

It has some real charm, feeling both informal and buttoned up in the same breath. It’s still a work in progress, but already a large family of widths and weights, plus italics.

Read more about Citywide and bus roll signs, and grab a license: https://shop.jasonsantamaria.com/products/citywide

Citywide

I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime.

This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today.

https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/

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.

So, @rek animated this really nice guide on assembling a zine.
🧠 Yesterday’s thread now has a permanent (and expanded) home: https://csswizardry.com/2025/01/build-for-the-web-build-on-the-web-build-with-the-web/
Build for the Web, Build on the Web, Build with the Web – CSS Wizardry

What is the real, long-term cost of adopting a JavaScript framework?

@wordsoftype beta is now launched, as announced by @lisahuang at Face/Interface: https://wiki.wordsoftype.com/

#Typography #Fonts

Words of Type | Encyclopedia

Multilingual encyclopedia of typographic terms.

United States Postal Service Corporate Identification Guidelines, 1971.

“The prime elements in [the service mark] are the eagle and the red/white/blue ‘U. S. Mail’. The eagle will be used as a right-facing symbol on all communications except where a directional motion is involved (Examples: the letter carriers’ shoulder patch, or the emblem on the left side of vehicles.)”

new year, new website :) with thy surest steel gathered to thy side, turn to face these new nightmares, these...True Terrors (of the New Dark Web)

plenty to do but i'm thrilled to publish this 🤍 thanks a lot if you end up taking a look, but hark! go heedfully:

https://henry.codes

scroll with caution & with care!

I Know About The Date In The Footer | Henry From Online

A quick note about string interpolation and jokes that didn’t land.