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Five Links #117
October 1, 2026
1. Revue Collé I’ve always found collage to be a fascinating medium: this is weekly newsletter that explores contemporary collage. 2. Better Luck than Chuck...
Five Links #116
September 24, 2026
1. Bold Type The brilliant inclusive and accessible communication educator Ettie Bailey-King is running her Bold Type course again. The world increasingly...
Five Links #115
September 17, 2026
1. Atlas of Type This is a great directory of independent typefaces and foundries. (via Nicolas) 2. Superintelligence is a fairy tale. But chasing it can...
Five Links #114
September 10, 2026
1. Strangford Beautiful woodcut and riso prints. 2. FBI probes service selling 153M+ drives licenses File this under “why ’secure’ ID verification services...
Five Links #113
September 3, 2026
1. Accessibility getting dropped in the process When a design is approved as "can be implemented accessibly," the accessibility requirements should be...
Five Links #112
August 27, 2026
1. human.json This is a nice, simple protocol to assert the humanity of online content. I particularly like the vouches system to expand trust more quickly....
Five Links #111
August 20, 2026
1. Buy Fonts Save Lives Some great typefaces in here, I particularly like Timmons NY (2.0). All proceeds from these typeface sales go to Cancer Research UK...
Five Links #110
August 13, 2026
1. This hue shall pass This is a great iteration on colour contrast tools from Clearleft. It doesn’t just show you which colour combinations pass or fail...
Five Links #109
August 6, 2026
Hello! There’s a new look to these emails. I pushed some design tweaks to my personal site last weekend, and migrated the newsletter archive as well. If you...
Five Links #108
July 30, 2026
1. Matthew Butterick’s font license I’m adding this to my list of great typography licenses: easy to understand, flexible and the fonts are reasonably...
Five Links #107
July 23, 2026
1. Real or fake deepfakes quiz This was a difficult quiz – I scored a little over half, but that was mostly guessing. 2. David Airey on Being Freelance When...
Five Links #106
July 16, 2026
1. ByeDoom A nice little tool to quickly grab RSS feeds: Add any public account from Instagram, Facebook, Substack, Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, X, TikTok or...
Five Links #105
July 9, 2026
1. Design Principles in Practice Make better design decisions when the right answer isn't obvious. 2. I believe in pixels In a world seemingly full of retina...
Five Links #104
July 2, 2026
1. Herbik This is a lovely serif typeface. 2. What if you said no? In the grand scheme of tech industry things to disagree with, this is a pretty low stakes...
Five Links #103
June 25, 2026
1. Finding curated public domain images A nice collection of resources that make the search for public domain images just a little better. 2. Are you in the...
Five Links #102
June 18, 2026
1. ∪ of Target Audiences (Accessibility, SEO, AEO/GEO) There’s a great Venn diagram at the end of this one: But SEO also drove bad accessibility practices,...
Five Links #101
June 11, 2026
1. I tracked down the thief who stole $200k of Lego This is an absolutely wild ride – stick with it. There’s a second part, too... 2. Pattern Breaking A...
Five Links #100
June 4, 2026
Hey, Welcome to issue #100. Thanks for being a subscriber and sticking with it. If you enjoy the newsletter, please share it with someone you think might...
Five Links #99
May 28, 2026
1. Geography is four-dimensional When someone speaks of a place, you have to ask, “When?” Geography is four-dimensional. You can’t know a place - only a...
Five Links #98
May 21, 2026
1. Strong opinions, loosely held — and what that means in the age of AI Here’s what I’ve started to notice. Teams using AI for analysis are arriving at...
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