Tim Brown is a designer and toolmaker with 15 years of product leadership experience, specializing in typography. As Head of Typography at Adobe, he works on design tools and writes about fonts, design, and creative practice.
18 articles from this blog
A developer shares how to use ChatGPT's 4o and o1 models to create a personalized daily AI assistant for cultural news and learning.
Explores the role of empathy in design and the impact of personalized typography on accessibility and reading outcomes for diverse users.
A casual podcast discussing CSS Masonry syntax proposals and the iterative design process in architecture, drawing parallels to software development.
Explores the development of AI-powered typography tools that assist designers with font selection, spacing, and layout to create more empathetic and accessible designs.
The author updates their blogroll, recommending two influential web design professionals and their insightful personal sites.
Explores the concept of 'CSS forces' as a design principle for creating balanced, fluid layouts by distributing pressure and relief across a composition.
The article argues for more intuitive and enjoyable user interfaces for working with variable fonts, comparing current tools to clunky emoji selection.
The author updates their blogroll, adding two web development blogs focused on design, typography, and developer tools.
A developer shares their workflow for writing and publishing Jekyll blog posts from an iOS device using Ulysses, a custom shortcut, Working Copy, and Netlify.
A developer compares using RecUp for voice memos with iOS 12's new Siri shortcut for the native Voice Memos app, focusing on workflow efficiency.
Explores typographic tempo experiments with Adobe, adjusting whitespace dynamically and discussing smart defaults for typesetting.
Announcing a new book about web typography, exploring the unique challenges and opportunities of typesetting for the web.
A developer discusses the RSS Club concept and technical challenges of managing a Jekyll-based blog via iPad without proper deployment.
A summary of Jeremy Keith's book on resilient web design principles, using web history to advocate for flexibility and progressive enhancement.
A developer reflects on the importance of carving out time to read and study others' work for professional growth and idea generation.
A review and summary of Jason Santa Maria's book on web typography, covering fundamentals like headlines, margins, and typographic systems.
Explores the concept of 'molten leading' for responsive typography, proposing fluid line-height that adjusts with container width.
Explores the concepts of breakpoints and range rules in responsive web design, discussing how CSS properties govern layout behavior across different viewport sizes.
