Lovely to see a new website from Suitcase Type (whose Tabac superfamily I used for Lagom a few years ago): www.suitcasetype.com

Has anyone tried opening an existing Claude Code project in Claude Design? The disconnect is bizarre. You can change things, but they don’t get pushed back to the main project — they exist in a weird limbo or duplicated files.

I keep 60+ neo-grotesks on hand. Fewer than a third have vertical metrics that actually center a label on a button. Here’s how to spot the ones that do—and 10 Inter and SF alternatives that qualify. yeptype.com/article/inte...

How to choose a UI font (and 10 Inter alternatives)

Tired of Inter being everywhere? Two real criteria—cap-centered vertical metrics and a tall x-height—for choosing a UI font, plus 10 alternatives from independent foundries.

yeptype.com

This makes for an amusing and sobering read. “No external dollar of profit has entered this system. Nobody outside the circle has paid for anything useful. [...] It is a group of friends standing in a circle, each handing the next one a ten dollar bill.” /via @densediscovery.bsky.social

Tokenomics are Coming

tokenomics There is an old joke about a man who sells ten dollar bills for five dollars each. When asked how the business is going, he says it is booming,...

webaligo.bearblog.dev

Loving the CRT vibes of this year's Web dev Conf site.

WDC2026 - October 9 2026, Watershed, Bristol, UK | Web Developers Conference

WDC is the web design and development conference based in Bristol, taking place in autumn each year.

webdevconf.com

[1/7] For the last 6 months, while searching for a Spotify alternative, I’ve tried all the streaming services, slowly writing a blog post about my experience with each. Now that post is finally live! And here’s a brief thread if you’d like the main points summarised. (Views are my own, obviously.)

Elliot Jay Stocks | The search for a Spotify alternative

Elliot Jay Stocks is a designer and author, usually doing something with typography

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I made a better way to buy my books: go to elliotjaystocks.com/books, hit “Buy directly from me”, then select your region. Unfortunately, shipping rates are high and I can’t compete with Amazon. But you do get the books themselves at a discount, straight from my stash, and signed (if you want).

New on Adobe.Design: a short piece by me on using grade to elevate typography. Grade before might at first seem like weight, but where weight serves to differentiate (adding emphasis and contrast), grade’s purpose is to unify (bringing consistency to text that looks different when it shouldn’t).

Keeping type consistent in changing conditions

Grade is a subtle typographic adjustment that preserves visual balance across shifting contexts

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This morning I published the latest issue of my #typography newsletter — the first for a while, but also probably the last until after the summer. Inside: new fonts, new sites to find fonts, type-specific tools, inspiring lettering portfolios, and loads more. You can read it online here:

Elliot Jay Stocks | Summer fonting

Elliot Jay Stocks is a designer and author, usually doing something with typography

elliotjaystocks.com

Hi, friends. The last 6 years have been a blast, but I just don't like being on The Internet anymore. I'm leaving DevRel, and I wrote a little bit about why. Look after yourselves, and each other. Love, Salma

Goodbye, forever, probably.

I’m leaving developer relations and developer education. Rather than disappear completely unannounced, I wanted to tell you why.

whitep4nth3r.com

The Fine Specimens book tour has come to an end, and my last pop-up newsletter, covering the final stop in Paris, is almost ready to go out. (Turns out I had more to write than I thought.) Ahead of that, here’s a little photo montage, as per this little tradition. What a lovely few days.

I find myself flip-flopping daily between enthusiasm for AI and despair at AI — although I guess one is excitement about tech potential, and the other is cynicism about the industry itself. Either way, the negative effects are real, and @ethanmarcotte.com is always articulate in his criticisms.

Ethan Marcotte@ethanmarcotte.com · 2mo ago

🦊 Wrote down some rambling thoughts on “AI”: as generational damage, on what repair might look like, and on asking what happens next. ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/all-to...

Long shot, but does anyone have any contacts high up (ish) at Three, the UK mobile network? Got a serious account issue they’re refusing to resolve, and it’s been going on for months. (Ah, for a simpler time, when I could just name and shame them on Twitter and get an instant response.)

This review perfectly sums up Widow’s Bay: “[…] a horror-comedy that manages to be both an incredibly funny and dense laugh-out-loud joke machine and a genuinely scary and menacing fright fest. Neither generic marker takes precedence over the other; they are mutually, ecstatically intertwined.”

Widow’s Bay Is a Menacing and Hilarious Mash-up

At a time when much TV recycles familiar formulas, the Apple TV series feels like something new.

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The Adobe Fonts design team launched a fun little side project last week: Glyph Finder! It allows you to see how the design of a specific character varies across a random selection of different typefaces from the Adobe Fonts library. labs.fonts.adobe.com/projects/gly...

I recently had the pleasure of chatting to Diana Varma on her Talk Paper Scissors podcast. This was my second time on the show and once again, she asked some great questions. Thanks for having me, Diana! (You can listen to it from wherever you get your podcasts.)

307: Fine Specimens with Elliot Jay Stocks of Adobe Fonts

I love a beautiful book about typography (who doesn’t?!) and this one, that we’re about to get into, is a BEAUT! Our guest today is Elliot Jay Stocks and I am obsessed with his other book (Universal P...

talkpaperscissors.info

When folks say they have 10x'd their productivity with AI, most of the time this is what is actually happening:

Well, the time has finally come: tomorrow is the fifth and final date of the Fine Specimens book tour! I’ll be selling and signing copies of the book (and UPoT) during the breaks of @typeparis.com, as well as speaking on a panel at the end of the day. If you’re there, please come and say “salut”!

It‘s hard to believe that Type&Faces — which was stop #4 on the Fine Specimens book tour — was already nearly two weeks ago. A huge thanks to the team for having me talk and letting me sell copies of the book. And of course to everyone who came! Such a lovely crowd. Pop-up newsletter coming soon!

I always love reading @aresluna.org’s thoughtful analyses of software design, but this one really stood out: “The engineers decided to change the logic to increment the tone [caused by power converters] in precise few steps resembling a musical scale, rather than allowing it to rise continuously.”

“Some say it sounds like an alto saxophone.” – Unsung

A blog about software craft and quality

unsung.aresluna.org

I was about to do a recap post for the London leg of the book tour, then realised I hadn't yet posted the Düsseldorf one! I'm so grateful to @marcthiele.com for letting me tag the tour onto @beyondtellerrand.com, Amy for handling payments, and @charismagic.bsky.social, who took most of the photos.

I've not yet dug into this "AI in Design Report" by Designer Fund, but I love its design.

AI in Design Report 2026

The second annual report by Designer Fund and Foundation Capital on how design teams are adapting to AI across tooling, craft, and org.

stateofaidesign.com

Hi hello we are Kagi and we do not do this 👇

TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 3mo ago

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

The first blog post I’ve written for Adobe.Design has just gone live! It’s all about optical sizing: where the concept originates, why size-specific type is important, and how to implement it with the latest variable fonts in desktop apps and on the web. Hope you enjoy it!

The old typography is new again

Born of analog typesetting constraints, optical sizing is once again relevant in digital design

adobe.design

This new round() function in CSS is super interesting, especially when presented so helpfully by @ishadeed.com. The baseline grid could be perfect for doing ‘proper’ drop caps on the web. (FYI, @jakegiltsoff.bsky.social !)

Better fluid sizing with round()

Using the round() function to get a more predictable fluid sizing.

ishadeed.com

Pretty much instantly hit the in-app purchase feature of Indigo by @soapboxsoftware.bsky.social — and here's my first post from it! Highly recommended if you use Bluesky and Mastodon and tend to post the same thing on both.

Indigo for Bluesky & Mastodon App - App Store

Download Indigo for Bluesky & Mastodon by Soapbox Software Inc on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips and more games like Indigo for…

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I’m sad to see an increasing number of conference websites that only link to speakers’ social profiles. Apparently a speaker having their own website is so undervalued, it’s not even worth putting it on the page.

London! This Thursday, it’s stop 4 on the Fine Specimens book tour. I’ll be speaking at Type&Faces about the making of the book and will be selling copies there, too. The event has nearly sold out, so grab a ticket while you can! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/typefaces-...

Anyone else testing the Mimestream iOS beta? I’m frustrated because... it’s too good! I was planning on de-Googling my email soon and Mimestream on macOS was the main thing holding me back, because it’s such a great (but Gmail-specific) app. Now it’s on iOS, too, there’s *another* reason to stay. 🤦‍♂️

So excited to be speaking at Type&Faces in London next Thursday! I’ll be talking about the making of Fine Specimens and will be selling copies of the book there, too. Come along!

Type&Faces - May

Join us for a fun evening about letterforms! Hear from our inspiring speakers, and chat to other creatives interested in type and design.

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