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In praise of the narrow column
Why measure, that simple, ancient typographic constraint, is still the single most important decision on a reading page.
Samuel Okafor · 5 min
Field notes from a small harbour
A week of walking, reading, and watching the boats come in. What slow places teach about attention.
Mira Iwasaki · 4 min
Building tools that disappear
The best software for thinking gets out of the way. A short meditation on restraint as an engineering value.
Samuel Okafor · 6 min
A conversation with a bookbinder
On hand-stitched signatures, the smell of linen thread, and what a centuries-old craft still has to teach the rest of us.
Mira Iwasaki · 9 min
Writing against the algorithm
A short argument for publishing in places that don't optimise for you, and for readers who arrive on purpose.
Elena March · 5 min
The grammar of good buttons
A button is a sentence. A short one, in the imperative. Here is how to write it well.
Samuel Okafor · 4 min
What I learned from a year of walking
Three hundred and sixty-five days, one slow route, and a small notebook. A report from the pavement.
Mira Iwasaki · 6 min
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