Tom MacWright
What's notable: Tom MacWright's personal blog — a textbook practitioner-restraint design. Single narrow prose column, transitional serif body type (a Charter-family face), warm-neutral background, almost no chrome. Posts include code blocks, diagrams, and footnotes. The site has barely changed in years because it doesn't need to — it's optimized for one thing: a reader settling in to read.
Why this matters as a reference: the gold standard for "practitioner blog" — what RDCO's longform reading view should aspire to feel like.
Related
- [[06-reference/design-mood-board/ia-net|ia.net]] — adjacent practitioner-essay aesthetic
- [[06-reference/design-mood-board/substack|Substack]] — platform equivalent
- [[06-reference/design-mood-board/the-atlantic|The Atlantic]] — institutional version
- [[06-reference/concepts/design-vocabulary-glossary#narrow-prose-vs-wide-content|narrow prose]]
- [[06-reference/concepts/design-vocabulary-glossary#measure|measure]]
- [[06-reference/concepts/design-vocabulary-glossary#warm-neutrals|warm neutrals]]