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Hello. I’m Kyle but I sign my name KQD. This is my site for collecting notes and links on people, products, and punctuation. (Longer bio here.)
Published from Northeast Ohio. Thanks for reading. âĄïž
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I aim to write so you don’t need to skim. There’s an in-house style guide that youâre welcome to read and remix.
Written on an old MacBook Air (with the good keyboard) or iPhone 11 Pro (the sensibly-sized one).
Hosted on Cloudflare Pages, generated with Hugo.
In the past, you might have seen the following (excellent) typefaces: Big Shoulders by Patric King; Public Sans by USWDS; Lato by Ćukasz Dziedzic; Inter by Rasmus Andersson; IBM Plex by Mike Abbink and Bold Monday; Whitney, Decimal, and Gotham by Hoefler & Co.; Source Serif Pro by Adobe; Concourse by Matthew Butterick; Athelas by Veronika Burian and Jose Scaglione; San Francisco by Apple; JetBrains Mono by JetBrains, Philipp Nurullin, and Konstantin Bulenkov; Charter, Verdana, and Georgia by Matthew Carter.
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Other writers worth reading
I read pretty much everything these folks put out. I update this list every couple of months, so check back from time to time. (Updated Nov. 2020)
- Becky Hansmeyer
- Erica Sadun
- Lara Callender Hogan
- Shawn Blanc
- Susan J. Fowler
- Una Kravets
- BirchTree, Matt Birchler
- Idle Words, Maciej CegĆowski
- Inessential, Brent Simmons
- Initial Charge, Michael Rockwell
- Kottke.org, Jason Kottke
- Pixel Envy, Nick Heer
- Rands in Repose, Michael Lopp
- Stratechery, Ben Thompson
- The Brooks Review, Ben Brooks
- The Newsprint, Joshua Ginter
- The Weekly Review, Chris Bowler
I’m always looking for interesting new writers. Send me a note if someone should be on this list.