Notes

Design

Special thanks go to:

• Frank Chimero has been a huge inspiration for design approach and many of the honest, open concepts I hope this site conveys. I will never not be jealous of Frank.
• Matthew Smith’s Website Inspired this page, among others.
• Julian inspired the journal.
• The Value of Multi-Typeface Design by Bethany Heck made me think more about being less minimal about font selection.
• Brian Lovin' has a great ethos about 'incrementally correct' websites.

And, in no particular order, a list of people and sites that have contributed some visual inspiration:

• Klim Foundry
• Manu Moreale
• Kleinschmidt
• Budi Tanrim
• Stephan Friedli
• Mike McQuade
• Foster Type
• Matus Hatala
• Maarten Afink
• Mike Guss
• Pierre Georges
• Benji Taylor
• Maggie Appleton
• Font Review Journal

Development

This site is built using Eleventy (11ty), hosted on Netlify, the content and data is pulled from Contentful, Spotify, last.fm, and GitHub.

Source Code.

• The The A11Y Project inspired me to try Eleventy, and provided excellent advice.
• I am using and inspired by the CUBE CSS methodology for all the styling.
• I was also inspired by SmolCSS. The minimal snippets are an excellent example that CSS is an art form.
• I combined This tutorial in the Eleventy docs with PostCSS for a simple, extendable style pipeline.
• The Eleventy RSS plugin avoided lots of RSS headaches.
• Piccalilli wrote a simple tutorial on outputting JSON from Eleventy.
• I was also helped along the way by tea-tack and eleventyone.

Typography

My typographic system is made up of:

• Blanco from Foster Type is used as body copy, and some headings.
• GT America Extended from Grilli Type is used for larger headings.
• Pitch from Klim is used for smaller text, and data.