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Buttered Crumpet, a custom typeface for Wallace and Gromit
I was thrilled to be selected to design a custom typeface for Wallace & Gromit – Aardman’s most beloved and recognisable characters.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,666 posts.
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Edward Tufte appointed by Obama to help track, and explain stimulus funds
A forum moderated by author and artist Edward Tufte, including discussion and questions dealing with information design.
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Atkinson Dithering (2021)
When the Macintosh was released in 1984, it featured a square-pixeled black-and-white display at a crisp 72 dots per inch. The 512x342 resolution might seem less than impressive today, but for the time it was a pleasantly high-resolution consumer-grade computer. Among other things, the monospaced Monaco 9pt bitmap…
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HSLuv, a developer friendly perceptual color space
Programmer chronicles.
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Oklab: A perceptual color space for image processing
From personal project to industry standard Introduction added in 2025 When introduced Oklab in 2020, I never expected it to reach as far as...
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Software should convey a sense of calm
Software should convey a sense of calm. How do you get there?
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Color Spaces
Interactive article explaining color spaces and how they're used to express color.
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What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000
I liked the UIs of the entire era from 3.0 to 2000, really. I'm mostly using Windows 2000 as an example here because it runs so well in QEMU/KVM and that allows me to easily take screenshots.
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Edward Tufte's "Slopegraphs"
Charlie Park believes in you.
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Apple doesn't care about album cover art
Album covers have never been smaller.
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Software design gets worse before it gets better
The price of improving structure
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How To Scroll
Scroll-based interaction is incredibly popular for interactive storytelling . There are many compelling reasons for this, yet scrolling is surprisingly nuanced and easy to break. So here are five rules for employing scrolling effectively.
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Notes on XKCD's “Pixels”
Max Goodhart's personal journal and sketchbook.
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An Interactive Guide to CSS Grid
CSS Grid is an incredibly powerful tool for building layouts on the web, but like all powerful tools, there's a significant learning curve. In this tutorial, we'll build a mental model for how CSS Grid works and how we can use it effectively. I'll share the biggest 💡 lightbulb moments I've had in my own learning…
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Celebrating the timeless allure of Tintin's aesthetics
The Adventures of Tintin officially entered the public domain in 2025. We now all own the alluring aesthetics of this timeless classic.
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User Interface Design: Rules of Thumb
UI design patterns for web apps: 1) Use defaults; 2) Obvious settings; 3) Show progress; 4) Don’t interrupt; 5) Flat hierarchy
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Life Below 600px
Paddy Donnelly, an Irish UX/Web Designer in Belgium who really lives on the Internet. Aspires to be a webmaster. Co-host of @sameforyou. Remembers when Pluto was a planet.
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Tooltips need a delay, and then they need to skip it
Thinking about UX, a slight delay on a simple tooltip can be nice so that mousing over something quickly doesn't trigger it, but if there are related tooltips nearby, maybe we don't need to wait.
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Future CSS: State Container Queries
An early look at CSS state queries.
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Generative art over the years
I’ve been making generative art on and off since 2016. It started as a programming exercise and slowly turned into something more personal as I discovered…
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High-performance tidy trees visualization (2022)
This article introduces the algorithm to draw non-layered trees in linear time and re-layout partially when some nodes change in O(d) time, where d is the maximum depth of the changed node.
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Flashing elements alienate users
Warning: This post might give vulnerable people new sensory sensitivities
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I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E
From Data to Daily Life
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