Rasmus Andersson @rsms Twitter profile

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Rasmus Andersson

@rsms

5 months

Inter version 4.0 → After two years of work on a new version of Inter, I'm so proud that it's finally released. (It's been in beta for the past year) The changes are vast. Most notably there are six additional "Display" designs for large delicious type

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Me as a novice programmer 20 years ago: “I’ll use an array” Me as an intermediate programmer 10 years ago: “I’ll use a fancy N-branching trie with hashing and linear probing” Me as a more experienced programmer: “I’ll use an array”

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4 years

Inter is now available from @googlefonts ! Congrats to @ThunderNixon who worked tirelessly on getting Inter on-boarded to Google Fonts.

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3 years

During the past six months I've been working towards something big which I believe in: Playing around with computers should be fun. Playbit is an ambitious project to create an environment that encourages playful learning, building & sharing of software.

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7 years

After almost a year of work I'm happy to introduce Interface — a font family for computer on–screen text.

Interface font family

Interface is a new typeface optimized for computer user interfaces

rsms.me

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10 months

Playbit is an endeavor to build a new operating system for software creatives. After over two years of reserach, Playbit is now a real company and I'm hiring Playbit's founding engineers. Are you up for the challenge?

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3 years

New release of the Inter typeface is now available.

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2 years

Sunday funday: Make your own font in @Figma . Copy this file to get started:

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6 months

This is a pet peeve of mine. Light and its temperature plays a significant role in how we feel. Putting cold (high color frequency) LED lights on streets is a terrible idea and I surely don’t want to live in a place where there are “blue” lights. It’s just negligence — we have

The Cultural Tutor

@culturaltutor

6 months

Why replacing orange street lights is an aesthetic downgrade — and bad for our health:

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5 years

New to CSS grids? Check out Raster—a simple approach to grid-based design on the web →

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@rsms

2 years

Started jamming on a new font today. Kind of like a compact display geo sans that can be used to complement Inter. What do you think?

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1 year

NASA using Inter. Okay I’m done now.

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5 years

Inter UI has been renamed to simply "Inter". Oh, and there's a brand new, significantly-improved release available!

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5 years

I've been a macOS user for a very long time and I see myself as someone who knows a lot of the little "hidden" features spread across the system. But I was surprised to learn about this today that I for some reason haven't seen before. Very useful!

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3 years

Figma Branches just announced at Figma Config. This was in the works even before I joined, over 5 years ago! Think about that, 5 years. Great software is not built in months; it often takes a long time to get things right enough for a first version.

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4 years

Some personal news: This Friday will be my last at Figma. It has been an absolutely amazing and delightful ride, challenging and changing design tools together with the most incredible people I have had the pleasure to work with. I am so very proud of everything we've done.

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1 year

Ex twitter employees, get together and build this: 1. Make a twitter clone (only text for v1) Shouldn’t take more than a day or three. 2. For the first year people can only sign up by authenticating with twitter; their username, tweets, followers and followees are copied.

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1 year

@apixelpusher 2009 version: 20MB fully native cocoa app, launches in less than a second, instant feedback when you click stuff, playback usually starts within 50ms

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@rsms

4 years

Some thoughts

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@rsms

2 years

This is a nice-looking 25” e-ink display. I’ve been excited about the idea of a good e-ink display for a long time. Compared to transmissive displays, reflective displays like these put less cognitive pressure on our minds, creating a calmer experience.

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2 years

I guess I should have monetized Inter (alt: I'm a bad business person. Inter will always be free and open source; just LOLing at the situation here) 😆

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3 years

UI design world: let’s clear this up once and for all: “Modal” is when user input goes into an alternate mode. It is _not_ an overlay window. Better language for an overlay window: “Dialog box” or “Pop-up window.” (Don’t agree? Context menus are modal but not windows :-)

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4 years

@fionaosaurusrex @figmadesign Sharing some of mine

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@rsms

6 years

While going through some old photos I took during the early days of @Spotify (for an upcoming book about Spotify!), I came across this photo of the state-of-the art Spotify Server Operations Centre (aka a closet with 19" servers.) Spotify ran off of these the first few months.

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5 years

New version of the Inter typeface family has been released. Highlights: → Much smaller variable font files → Enclosing combining glyphs (circles and squares) → More arrow glyphs and a warning-sign glyph → Improved kerning, spacing, fixed bugs, etc etc.

Inter font family

Inter is a typeface family

rsms.me

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@rsms

3 years

This is what large parts of the commercial WWW has become. It really saddens me. It’s like a hundred tortured voices screaming in desperation. How do we fix this?! How did we get here?

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@rsms

3 years

A thread with some diagrams, as y'all seem to like them :-)

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Rasmus Andersson

@rsms

4 years

Scripter used to animate a scripted "walk-around" in a Figma file. Try it yourself:

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@rsms

4 years

After 13 years of git I just now discovered `git diff --color-moved` — It detects and displays chunks that have moved, which is pretty common, in my experience. I find it really useful to be able to separate what has changed from what just moved around when reviewing some code.

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11 months

This is pretty neat. Functioning QR codes that are pretty. Would be neat to integrate something like this as an artist’s signature in the corner of a painting. (en translation: )

Ahmed Dahbi

@dahbiahmed

11 months

AI Generated QR Codes!!! - This is probably one of the best Controlnet usecases I've seen so far (Yes they work) (thx @BenTheEgg for the find!)

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4 years

Some fun Figma plugins coming soon

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4 years

I'd like an email app like this, with a focus on reading & writing rather than "email technology."

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@rsms

2 years

⌘F in @Figma is really nicely done

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@rsms

10 months

LOL Twitter rate limiting their own iOS app. Clown town!

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4 years

Working on something new. Felt cute. Might delete later.

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@rsms

4 years

Fresh new release of the Inter typeface. Major improvements from months of work by @katja_schimmel , @ThunderNixon et moi. →

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@rsms

3 years

Put together a little e-ink display powered by a Raspberry Pi Zero. Sat-ur-fun-day.

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@rsms

3 years

New Inter font release just dropped — 3.19 🎈 Mostly minor changes.

Release v3.19 · rsms/inter

Note: A new version 4 is in the making and will be released as "stable" during 2023. Version 3 will not receive any updates. You can download a beta release of version 4 here… Version 3....

github.com

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@rsms

5 years

The new "layer" explorer in Safari is pretty fun and useful. I've seen this approach to visual debugging in many places before, so not a new concept, but nice to see this in a mainstream browser. (opt-in under experimental features in the dev console.)

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@rsms

3 years

I’m convinced this was a mistake because I don’t think anyone would intentionally do something like this. It’s like turning on the lights when they are off. Obviously makes no sense. I bet it will be fixed ASAP. [Before vs after:]

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@rsms

3 years

Made a simple homepage with HTML (and CSS!) features available in the late 1990s and got it running in era-appropriate web browsers (IE 4 and Netscape 4)

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1 year

@joshuapekera This is what 99% of my figma files look like. Good design has nothing to do with how you name layers. In fact it has little to do with anything at this granular level of tooling. Bad take.

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@rsms

4 years

For years I’ve used just a plain text file for tracking todo. Plain text data is just the finest thing, isn’t it. Just stick a notes.txt into Dropbox and you’re done.

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@rsms

5 years

New fresh release of the Inter UI typeface

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@rsms

4 years

There's a shiny new release of the Inter typeface available today. This version packs a lot of improvements including some new glyphs like the Bitcoin sign.

Release v3.14 · rsms/inter

This is an old release.Newer release available → here ← Fixes position of ring at bottom of /Aringbelow U+1E00. #266 Fixes interpolation issues with /omegatitlocyrillic /omega and /pisymbolgreek. ...

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@rsms

6 months

Lovely new typeface based on Inter

Vercel

@vercel

6 months

Introducing Geist, our free and open-source font. Created in collaboration with @basementstudio .

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2 years

Sometimes I just want to quit computers, day dream I live on the countryside where tend to a garden and work on some old cars and motorcycles, because damn oh boy have we built a steamy mess of complexity.

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2 years

Had a nightmare. First one in ages: Was working with a group of people on an exciting product. It was fun at first. Then no progress was made. Instead everyone were being super nice to each other and stopped telling the truth about anything that mattered. Just endless meetings.

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@rsms

1 year

Inter 4 will ship with completely overhauled tabular figures, including uniform width across all 12 designs allowing you to mix any VF axis values without affecting your layout.

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@rsms

1 year

Made a little booklet to help contributors of Inter getting a grasp on its design system

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Rasmus Andersson

@rsms

6 years

Software that started off simple and was amazing, then slowly degraded into noise, complexity and “growth opportunities”: 1. Flickr 2. Messenger 3. Twitter 4. Instagram Time for a new era of things to solve these problems. “It’s called a revolution b/c it goes in circles”

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@rsms

4 years

@ucllc Reminds me of when the Brazilian Instituto de Estudos Orientais years ago (2005?) introduced this gem, quickly withdrawn.

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@rsms

5 years

Just finished my Swedish tax declaration in 4 minutes and signing it all with FaceID ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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@rsms

2 years

Are you a computer software professional and unhappy with your workstation OS? If a brand new OS shipped tomorrow, what about it would make you excited?

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@rsms

4 years

Years in the making! Big congrats the the whole team at Figma for a fantastically restrained and simple auto-layout solution.

Figma

@figma

4 years

Design more, resize less. Auto Layout is here. Read more:

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@rsms

6 years

This is a fun idea.

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@rsms

1 year

@natfriedman This perpetuates a fundamentally bad idea: that you need to sacrifice health and friends etc to succeed in sv tech. Of course that’s not true and it sets young people on the wrong path.

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@rsms

6 years

. @figmadesign pro tip: Use components when drawing symmetrical shapes, like a vase or a flask. 1. Draw rough outline for one side 2. ⌥⌘K to make a component 3. ⌘D to duplicate and ⇧H to mirror horizontally 4. Move the duplicate to the left or right 5. Edit the component

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@rsms

1 year

Be the magic

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@rsms

3 years

(Now that I'm no longer working at Figma I can do this:) Hey @figmadesign this is _so_ confusing. Can we plsss reverse the direction?

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@rsms

6 years

Excited to announce a fantastic new feature in @Figmadesign today which gives you layout superpowers.

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@rsms

2 years

We’re getting close to releasing the biggest update in the history of Inter: version 4 with “display” styles. Six additional key designs for large optical sizes, made available as a opsz variable-font axis. Excited to work with Fons on an updated website & showcase.

Fons Mans

@FonsMans

2 years

Creating something cool for the new variable font 'Inter Display' with @rsms ...

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@rsms

4 years

This trend in automotive UI design is TERRIBLE. When you drive a car your attention on the road & outside environment is of utmost importance for your life and others lives. UIs in cars need to trend toward simplicity and minimalism, not tiktok levels of distraction.

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@rsms

2 years

The way we make desktop apps today is so broken. So wasteful and inefficient.

Zach Waugh

@zachwaugh

2 years

Setting up my new computer and noticed Notion is now approaching 500 MB. What could take up that much space? Electron of course, weighing in at ~200 MB, but then ~282 MB for node_modules! Almost half of which is a single module.

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2 years

Profound realization from the Design Principles Behind Smalltalk:

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@rsms

5 years

So much love seeing @mozilla using the Inter typeface family 🥰

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@rsms

5 years

Scripter is my first real @figmadesign plugin. It enables playful exploration of the Figma API and is great for automating tasks, or even creating animations.

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@rsms

5 years

Humbled, excited and proud that Unity is using Inter! “After careful consideration, we chose Inter, a modern typeface designed for computer screens. It’s highly legible and helps minimize eye fatigue. Additionally, it renders well across all operating systems...”

Unity for Games

@unitygames

5 years

We made exciting improvements to the Unity Editor that are less about new features, and more about the look and feel, core interactions, and workflows. These design improvements are reflected in the latest 2019.3 beta release, with more to come soon!

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@rsms

3 years

This is cool. Zurich Airport using Inter :–)

sandydoo

@sandy_doo

3 years

So, I'm checking Zurich airport's website and thinking to myself, "this Helvetica feels kind of weird — better than usual." It turns out, they're using Inter! @rsms is conquering the Swiss 💪🤣

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3 years

So fun to see little details like this noticed. A lot of the “craft” takes this shape on the surface; an iceberg of research and collaboration which summits to systems. When it comes to design there are two key elements: grid and gravity.

Noah

@dudeischill

3 years

So much care and craft went into this, i just keep .... staring.... at it... @figmadesign

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5 years

Every day is a new battle for attention vs distraction vs focus. I wish a company like @SlackHQ would do something truly new and innovative to address the information-overload problem of knowledge-workers. This ain’t good for mental health.

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8 months

I’m so bummed that Apple killed the iPhone “mini” (which is the upper limit of iPhone size I’m comfortable with.) If you, like me, have normal-sized pockets and hands, what are you doing? Stocking up on warehouse’d Minis or switching to a non-iOS device?

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@rsms

4 years

The first known case of Touch Bar being remotely useful. What a time to be alive!

Grace

@gracecondition

4 years

twitter did someone want a touchbar tamagotchi?

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@rsms

5 years

Today is a big day for us at Figma and hopefully for some of you. Plugins brings a whole new dimension to your design toolbox. We built the first internal "technical demo" prototype of Plugins in Figma over two years ago—this is a huge project involving the whole company. Proud!

Figma

@figma

5 years

Figma Plugins are here! Easy to build, quick to install. ⚡️ Read what makes a #figmaplugin different:

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3 years

Spiffed up my office desk setup today.

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@rsms

8 years

There are a lot of smart and clever people making various sciences and stuff, and then there is true genius.

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@rsms

5 years

The Inter typeface family just passed 100,000 downloads 🎉

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@rsms

4 years

Made some progress on Inter Display today. There’s an early alpha release available to try at

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@rsms

3 years

Both Spotify and Figma took years to get off the ground. If you believe in something you are building, don’t let the tech environment around you bring you down. Power through, even when it seems someone else already “won.” History offers plenty of good examples :-)

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@rsms

3 years

@cabel Great spirit! It’s is so incredibly hard to stay motivated and focused building software and computers. Every week there’s something related or straight up similar that some other smart people just did. It’s easy to feel disheartened by that, I think. But important to keep going!

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@rsms

3 years

Speed, actual perceived UI speed, was a corner stone of both Spotify and Figma from day 1. It is an incredibly important quality which is rarely in the limelight. For tools in particular it is absolutely key for over-all quality.

Karri Saarinen

@karrisaarinen

3 years

Prioritizing speed and performance is a cultural choice companies make. Hard to fix it later. At Airbnb there would be an entire team dedicated improving performance. Many of their gains were nullified soon after by another team adding something that slowed things down again

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@rsms

7 months

@nikitabier Marketing “the grind” is doing young people a disservice. I’ve lived that life and there’s no money that makes it worth it.

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@rsms

2 years

These kinds of GUI window decorations were so crisp and clear. I feel like we lost something when moving to these "opaque paper surfaces with heavy" shadows as are commonplace in macOS and Windows today.

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@rsms

3 years

What are today's finest design agencies specializing in brand & identity with strong style & taste? A friend at a company asked me this as they are planning a company-wide rebrand and I realize I have long lost touch with the design-agency industry.

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@rsms

1 year

This is some shady shit, putting ads in notifications.

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@rsms

3 years

This is how you win. A quote I heard somewhere that has stuck with me for a long time: “Customers come for the features but stay for the details”

Figma

@figma

3 years

When you’re in Figma 8 hours a day, every click matters. And even small annoyances can have a big impact on your flow. We gathered your feedback and came up with 30 updates to enhance your workflow in Figma. Here are all 30. ⬇️What’s your favorite?

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2 years

If a car I wanted to buy offered a “delete screens and replace with analog dials” option, I’d pay extra for that. I refuse a future of horrid massive screens everywhere. We’re humans, not micro-trading bots.

Paris Marx

@parismarx

2 years

I’m sorry, but this fucking sucks. There’s way too much distraction in these cars with screens everywhere, and having Apple encouraging it with CarPlay is so irresponsible. It actually makes me mad that regulators aren’t stepping in to do something about this.

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1 year

Made some progress on the next generation of Inter this week. In particular the display designs and thin designs need love.

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@rsms

4 years

Okay, let’s do this.

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6 years

Positively surprised with a feeling of pride this morning, learning that is now set in the Inter UI font family :–)

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@rsms

5 years

Come say hi to my Figma stuff

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11 months

Playing around with logotype ideas for @playbit_

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@rsms

4 years

Working through some ideas for machine learning-based automatic kerning. Might be a dead-end road might seems like a fun project. Is this a good approach? (I’m sure there are existing implementations out there, but I want to explore this in isolation to learn more about ML :–)

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4 years

I have this little hope in me that is very slowly growing, that Microsoft could become the new Apple. Apple as it was ~2002–2010. Exciting and trying to push boundaries. Maybe. Just maybe.

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@rsms

2 years

A web browser that accepts a new document format ideal for performant, quality software. Alternative to HTML/CSS. Is anyone working on this? Seems like a pretty obvious idea.

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3 years

Today might be a good day to fire this up, my first Mac I bought after saving money for years working my first job. I’ve kept it sealed up and it still smells like it did in 2002. Ti PowerBook

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2 years

Netflix has made a show about Spotify and I'm really eager to see how they came up with anything remotely exciting, ha ha. This group photo (TV show left, original right) was interesting. Some details are pretty good, like @arrelid 's striped shirt.

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@rsms

4 years

Made a little Figma OpenType playground for Inter:

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@rsms

4 years

Here are the design principles we have developed at @figmadesign — they have helped a lot over the years to steer us into a direction we all agree on. If you dup the file, there is a second page with process work.

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