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My name is Marcin Wichary. I’ve worked as a UX designer, typographer, front-end person, and manager at Google, Medium, and Figma. I’ve also written a book about keyboards and typing, gave talks, and published essays about design, typography, and technology.

Unsung is my blog about software craft and quality.

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“A collection of beautiful letters? A beautiful collection of letters? You decide.”

This is neither the first nor the last time I’m sharing David Jonathan Ross’s work; today I want to link to a really fun glyph explorer he put together recently:

That’s it. That’s the tweet. On this blog I generally want to capture the meaning of well-made things, deeper thinking, going beyond cheap sugary delight, the discomfort of rigor meeting joy and craft colliding with function, and the “why” of it all – and a lot of that is actually all here, too, as long as you keep clicking on things.

But: sometimes it’s also just so nice simply to look at beautiful letterforms for a while.

(Also available on Masto and on Pixelfed.)