Archive
212 pieces since 2019
Essays are the long ones, notes are the short ones, interviews are the best ones. Tags below; the year headings are links you can share.
2026
- The comfortable measure, and why every redesign forgets it
- Nobody reads the whole thing, and that's fine
- Marginal notes: the oldest interface we have
- A font-size that respects the reader's settings
- Dark mode is not an inversion
- Ten years typesetting other people's books: a conversation with Ade Mensah
- The reading position
- What a table of contents is for
- Against the hero image
- Footnotes, sidenotes, endnotes: a field guide
- The last paragraph
- Reading on a train, 1926 and 2026
2025
- The year in reading, and what I gave up on
- Hyphenation is back and the browser does it now
- A conversation with the person who typeset the phone book
- Drop caps: when, and mostly when not
- Why the paragraph mark disappeared
- The ragged right
- Underlines, revisited
- On writing the second draft in a different font