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Type, objects, and the decisions nobody notices until they go wrong.

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Juniper Okafor in Cities

Desire Paths Are the Most Honest Urban Plan

A strip of dead grass in Tolliver Park beat a sign, a rope, a hedge, and a drainage study

Oct 26 · 4 min read4326
Saffron Lund in Design

Why Your Paragraphs Feel Cramped

The trouble is almost never the font, and I say that as someone who sells fonts

Oct 30 · 4 min read3346
Wren Halloway in Design

Every Boat Is an Argument With Water

Hull shape is a list of things you have agreed to give up, and I once gave up the wrong one by five inches.

Oct 5 · 4 min read3965
Saffron Lund in Design

The Quiet Politics of the Default Font

Most of what the world reads is set in a font nobody chose, which is worth a second look

Oct 2 · 4 min read935
Saffron Lund in Books

A Love Letter to the Ampersand

To the one character I would draw for free, and frequently have

Sep 9 · 4 min read1914
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