New theme fo the Blot CMS I use learned about via their newsletter. It’s styled after Obsidian Publish and looks terrific. Making me think I should give a digital garden another go…
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🧻 I hate the Pantone color of the year
In fashion language, white suggests luxury, like, you don’t have to work, because if you worked, you’d wear a more practical color that won’t get stained within 5 minutes. Staying clean is a privilege — the aristocracy keeps their hands clean and the working class gets dirty for them.
I’m going to go out on a limb and play the contrarian: I kinda like the color of the year. But I do think they are on to something here when it comes to privilege, white nationalism, etc. Especially as the class gap continues to grow
🔠 Die Grotesk design information
Because every creative endeavour has a small part of your soul and spirit, it would be too vulnerable and unbearable to admit the real cost and fear involved in making something new and offering it up to the world, to our customers and savage imaginary contempt of our peers.
Not me thinking about buying Die Grotesk despite having both Untitled Sans and Helvetica (and a terrible eye that can only slightly tell the difference when they are side-by-side…) On a more serious note, I love reading these long pieces about the thoughts, ideas, and process that goes into designing
🔡 GT Era
Our latest release transforms the warmth of 19th century grotesks into a 21st century tool.
The new typeface from GT is very, very nice; falling somewhere between GT Standard and GT Flaire in terms of that minimal approach and infusing it with some personality.
