Unlike JavaScript, CSS doesn’t have a native way to load it asynchronously. There’s no async or defer attributes for link elements the way there are for script elements. In the past, I used to use a J
Redesign: Clearing A Path May 24, 2020 It’s been four months since my last redesign post, and my excuses for blog-neglect are the usual in this tried-and-true genre of blogpost: work got busy, I wasn’
Redesign: Gridniking February 5, 2020 Making grids sits somewhere between sharpening axes and solving puzzles, part prep work, part game. Some designers are obsessed with grids, and I can understand t
Redesign: The Raccoon King of Garbage Mountain January 30, 2020 When it comes to websites, I’m a caboose guy—I will happily design footers all day. But headers? I would prefer not to. More hassle than
Redesign: Font Swap January 28, 2020 Drop some confetti—but only some—to celebrate the tiniest launch. Your pal Frank bought some font licenses, and this site now uses the selected typefaces: Ivar Tex
Redesign: Gardening vs. Architecture January 23, 2020 The year is 2020, and there’s nothing left to lose, so I am going to risk a question that may open Pandora’s box: Remember Game of Thrones? Oof, r
Redesign: Scales and Hierarchy January 21, 2020 In the last post , I selected two typefaces for the website—Ivar Text as the serif and Scto Grotesk A as the sans. This time, I want to establish a type
Redesign: Picking Typefaces January 16, 2020 Last time, we talked about how the design of letters accumulate into the feel of a typeface . With all that in mind, let’s take a look through my font coll
Redesign: Looking at Letters January 13, 2020 If climate change and insufficient retirement savings show us anything, it is that the human mind has difficulty imagining exponential consequences. The s
Redesign: Perfecta Trifecta January 9, 2020 Text accumulates: letters become words, words become sentences, sentences become paragraphs. Each choice in the design of a letter gets repeated thousands o
Redesign: Nose-First January 6, 2020 Several years ago, David Cole shared a thought that lodged in my mind. At the time, he was making self-constructed LEGO sets of animals. He’d create a design at ho
Redesign: Wants and Needs January 5, 2020 Let’s oversimplify for a bit to help get down some goals for the site redesign. The website spectrum Websites sit on a design spectrum. On one end are applica
Redesign: On This Design January 2, 2020 A quick note about the current “naked” design of this site: it is kept intentionally default-ish—no webfonts, no Javascript, and only a dash of vanilla CSS to