Posts tagged: Personal Projects

Rebuilding our 15-year-old coffee tasting app revealed how dramatically home brewing culture had evolved while we were designing for coffee businesses, teaching us valuable lessons in the process.

For the last few years, I've hosted a website for my DJ Disarray alter ego on WordPress. It was a natural and obvious platform, and it's very easy to pick a template and get a site up. But after a while, the familiar drawbacks of WordPress started to haunt me, and I decided it was time for something with a bit more power and a lot more control. And so I decided to give Craft CMS a try.

Sometimes you outgrow your own design decisions. Heading into Unpacking Coffee's Season 4, we realized we'd been avoiding our own chosen typeface (Galaxie Polaris) in favor of geometric fonts. The solution? Cosmica, a geometric sans from the same foundry that maintains our design skeleton while giving us the character we'd been seeking all along.

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