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A small Python library that turns plain data into Word documents with a strict Vignelli-style grid, black-and-white charts and zero color, so every reference sheet I print looks like it came from the same shop.
Thread: The design notebook ↗The small art reference kit I keep, a five-color palette with hex codes, a two-font pairing, and a folder of one-page drawing tutorials, plus how I use each one.
Thread: The reference shelf ↗A desktop app and a set of browser extensions I built for making custom profile icons and switching between browser profiles without squinting at identical avatars.
Thread: Desktop tinkering ↗Vignelli is my open-source Obsidian theme for people who want their notes to read like a well-set print document, with serif type, gold rules and a teal highlighter.
Thread: The design notebook ↗The section order I use for a one-page site, which sections are required and which earn their place, rough sizes for each, and why the call to action sits right under the hero.
Thread: Building a site for someone ↗Terminal UI Components is my open-source, pure CSS framework for building terminal-style web interfaces, with ten color themes and box-drawing decorations.
Thread: The design notebook ↗Fine Use is my open-source design system for terminal-style interfaces, a React component plan with CSS themes and a Python desktop implementation, and it's honest about being mostly a specification so far.
Thread: The design notebook ↗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.
Thread: The design notebook ↗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.
Thread: The design notebook ↗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.
Thread: The design notebook ↗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.
Thread: The design notebook ↗The questions I work through before building a site for someone, grouped the way I keep them, with the handful that actually change the build pulled out on their own.
Thread: Building a site for someone ↗101 old posts, three versions of a design, and one very specific idea about what a personal website should feel like.
Thread: Building this notebook ↗I recently worked on a design project for Venable Cares at Venable Elementary School in Charlottesville, VA. My contribution included creating the logo for Venable Cares. The logo design…