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The design notebook.
Where the look comes from: '90s computer ads, Vignelli's rules, borrowed palettes and Kaybl.
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The '90s Computer-Ad Look, Without Faking an Operating System
How this site borrows the warmth of early-'90s Apple ads (editorial type, cream paper, slate ink) and why the fake menu bars and little beige Mac didn't make the cut.
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Designing with Vignelli's Rules
Massimo Vignelli spent sixty years proving you need a grid, a handful of typefaces and a lot of discipline. What that looks like when the page is a browser window.
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Borrowing a Palette from a Reading App
Six colors sampled from a screenshot of a dark RSS reader, the rules that keep amber from turning into a Halloween theme, and what the contrast math actually says.
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Kaybl: One Cable Guide, Three Screens
Kaybl turns a Plex or Jellyfin library into something that feels like flipping channels. The hard part isn't the channels. It's drawing one guide that works on a TV, a phone and a desktop.