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We make brands, websites & apps for founders and small businesses. Since 2020. Work: kott.studio/work Tools for designers: kott.io

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kott studio @kharnaa.bsky.social · 5h
Two AI cats, pushed down to one bit of #dither. The whiskers hold. The color doesn't. Free, live in the browser: kott.io
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Consiliae @consiliae.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Looking for a great web designer to help shape Consiliae's marketing website. Strong visual taste, thoughtful layouts, great typography, and a knack for making complex ideas feel simple. We want something distinctive, not generic templates. DM us your portfolio! #WebDesign #ProductDesign
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CareyArt @careyart.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
I don't know why I've only noticed this in the last month, but AI use in typography on the internet is truly dire. Bad letter spacing & an overabundance of different rendering techniques are giving me flashbacks to dreadful design prevalent in the 70s. But at least they were by designed by humans
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Brecht De Ruyte @utilitybend.com · 16/10/2026
Earlier this week, I launched this article and for some reason I'm having typography vibes. So many fun things we can do with letters!
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Riez @riekay.itch.io · 15/10/2026
Picture of me making important hand gestures to underline the intricacies of typography. I was at nextApp devCon and talked about typography and video games – again ^_^ www.flickr.com/photos/19437...
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robzepdev @robzepdev.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
My design doc had been caught out of date four sessions running, so the typography table is now held by a test in both directions: nothing in the doc the CSS does not render, nothing in the CSS the doc does not state. The prose is still held by nothing.
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kott studio @kharnaa.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Before you pay the last invoice on a new #website, ask for the handover list. The domain and hosting should be in your name, and every login and password in your hands. If a line is missing, it isn't finished. However nice the launch email was.
A dark card. Headline: A finished website comes with a receipt, with the word finished in orange. Below it, a paper receipt titled Handover receipt for yourbusiness.example. Ticked lines: domain in my account and my name, hosting in my account and on my card, a named person to write to. One unticked line is lit in an orange bar: every login and password handed to me. Status at the bottom: not finished, yet. Small aside: a link in an email does not count.A dark card. Headline: Pay after every tick, with every in orange. Below it, the full handover receipt with 11 empty checkboxes in three groups. Access: domain in my account and name, hosting in my account and on my card, code and analytics in my accounts, every paid service and whose card pays. It works: live on the real address and secure, every page works on a phone, PageSpeed checked with a dated screenshot, every form tested and the message received. After: a named person to write to, who makes text changes and how, every login and password handed to me. An orange bar reads: 11 of 11, now pay the invoice. Small aside: also a decent brief, next time.
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🔞 Armand’s Buttslut 🔞 [Sweet Potato Casserole] @johniarty.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
#Spiderskull #SpideyPun prompt 2:
A screenshot that reads as follows:

2. SpiderMutant!Peter. Frank's scouting a new location for his base, and Peter is its current inhabitant. Dub-con, Peter has venom that can do whatever we want (like puts Frank into a heat-like state), lots of arms for touching, web bondage, maybe oviposition.
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Cameron @ Recognized.fm | Audio & Podcast Awards @recognizedfm.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Podcast cover art is the first impression potential listeners get about a show, so you need to nail the positioning and branding right off the bat. Because now more than ever people will make big judgments based on the type of design and who they think it’s catering to. #buildinpublic #podcast
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Robin (scary) @borealrobin.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"oh i won't be staring at ttrpg rulebooks forever tonight and might actually go to bed at a reasonable time" "wait the design space for wayfarer companions in fabula ultima is a lot more open than i thought, i want to try to make something cool for fun" an hour and a half later:
Elemental Companion "Nexus"
(Assuming 3 levels in Faithful Companion and a level 5 character)
Traits: Swirling, Changing, Persisting, Probably Concerning
DEX d6 INS d6 MIG d12 WLP d8
HP 48 - 24 MP 40
Absorb Poison and Darkness; immune to Poisoned
Vulnerable to Physical, Wind, Bolt, Earth, Fire, Ice, Light
Basic Attack:
(Ranged) Shudder - [MIG + WLP] + 3 - [HR + 10] Damage. 
This attack's damage type is one of the damage types that Nexus absorbs.
Nexus recovers an amount of Hit Points equal to half the total Hit Point loss the target suffers.
Spells:
Twist (Lick Wounds) - 5 MP - Self You recover 20 Hit Points.
Alter Causality (Divination) - 10 MP - Self You glimpse briefly into the future. 
Until this spell ends, after a creature you can see rolls dice for a Check, 
if it's not a fumble nor a critical success, you may force them to
reroll both dice. Once you have forced two rerolls this way, this spell ends.
Special Rules

Swirling - When another creature is threatened by an attack, spell or other danger, Nexus may take
their place (any Checks that are part of the danger will be performed against you; you
may declare the use of this Skill before or after the Checks have been made). If the
danger already affected you, it affects you twice (resolve both instances separately);
you also cannot protect multiple creatures from the same danger. If you use this Skill
during a conflict, you cannot use it again until the start of your next turn.

Changing - When Nexus takes damage it is vulnerable to, it must swap its affinity for that type
with its affinity for a type it currently absorbs.

Persisting - When Nexus enters Crisis, it may immediately perform the Spell action for free,
casting either Twist or Alter Causality (it must still pay the MP cost.)
If Nexus recovers HP while in crisis, from any source other than Shudder, and is still in crisis afterwards, 
it may perform a free attack with Shudder; treat the High Roll as 0 when calculating damage dealt by this attack.
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JR Gemhero @jrgemhero.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Boomblaster - These loud and proud robots use the amp organs on their shoulders and hands they can generate and blast out massive bursts of sound waves that can damage steel. They have the nickname of "Sound Man's Hypemen" #OriginalCharacter #OC #CharacterDesign #MegaMan
Boomblaster - A purple and black skinned and yellow eyed Reploid / Robot looking silicon based lifeform with huge amp-like organs on it's shoulders and arms that has a music note-like antenna atop it's head.

They're based on a combination of Loudred, Exploud, Mike Mode Robobot Armor, Echo Echo and it's Ultimate counterpart from Pokémon, Kirby Planet Robobot, and Ben 10 respectively.

Tags: Original Character, OC, Character Design, Megaman, Mega Man, Robot, Reploid, Amp, Sound, Normal Type / Element, Enemy
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Rubri @rubri-san.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Hi #PortfolioDay ! I'm Rubri, Freelance Illustrator & Designer. Looking for opportunity to work and collaborate with amazing people! I can make logos, typography and vector illustrations. 🌐 rubri.carrd.co 📧 bellatorisrubri@gmail.com
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Sarah @academiablues.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Probably need to redesign my website/get a new one. I know next to nothing about this kind of thing. If I have any friends who do, HALP 😂
static.klipy.com
Fluffy Cat Needs 'HALP!' in the Morning
Alt: Fluffy Cat Needs 'HALP!' in the Morning
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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Someone appears to have colour-coordinated our Secondhand poetry shelves with October! Frost, Blake, Lawrence, German & Italian verse, all dressed in the most glorious vintage Penguin covers Burnt orange, faded purple, beautiful patterns and decades of reading history. Honestly, just LOOK at them
 Close-up of five vintage Penguin poetry paperbacks standing on a black shelf in Chapters Bookstore. The books include German and Italian verse anthologies, D. H. Lawrence's Selected Poems, Robert Frost's selected poetry and William Blake. Their decorative covers feature warm orange, brown, cream and purple patterns, creating a distinctly autumnal display. The books show signs of age and use.
Five secondhand Penguin poetry books arranged upright against a dark bookshelf. Two orange-patterned anthologies of German and Italian verse sit beside a purple-covered D. H. Lawrence collection, a botanical orange and blue Robert Frost edition and a marbled orange and grey William Blake volume. The vintage typography, decorative designs and gently worn covers give the display a warm autumnal character.
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C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 13/10/2026
"...What scares me is not that creativity disappears, but that the process is bypassed." — @virajvjoshi.bsky.social #booksky #drawntoextinction #comics #art #comicsky trainor.fyi/books/drawn
A striking, chaotic comic-style cover layered with overlapping hand-drawn panels, showing fragmented faces, sketchbook pages, and inked figures in a mix of rough linework and vivid colour. Fluorescent yellow horizontal bands slice across the entire image like warning tape, partially obscuring the artwork beneath. Over this, bold, blocky black typography reading “Drawn to Extinction” runs vertically and dominates the composition, creating a sense of disruption and tension. The background feels like a collage of analogue craft under pressure, with visible pencil marks, notes, and expressive character art clashing against the harsh digital overlays, evoking the collision between human creativity and machine generation.
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kott studio @kharnaa.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Apple's #AppStore review rejected 387,087 apps in 2025 and approved them on a later try. Apparently that's just how it goes. If someone is building your app, ask where round two sits in the launch plan. Ideally somewhere other than a shrug.
A black frame with the headline Leave room for round two with Apple, the word two in orange. Below it, a light card shaped like an App Store Connect review history for Your App, iOS 1.0: Waiting for Review Mar 3, In Review Mar 4, Rejected Mar 4 under Guideline 2.1, App Completeness, then Waiting for Review again on Mar 9, lit in orange, and Ready for Distribution Mar 10. Top left: Before you set a launch date. Top right: 387,087 apps approved after a rejection. Apple, 2025. Bottom right: spoiler: it ships.
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C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 12/10/2026
"...The work isn’t disappearing because artists stopped making it, it’s disappearing because buyers no longer think they need them." — @streakofpith.bsky.social #booksky #drawntoextinction #comics #art #comicsky trainor.fyi/books/drawn
A striking, chaotic comic-style cover layered with overlapping hand-drawn panels, showing fragmented faces, sketchbook pages, and inked figures in a mix of rough linework and vivid colour. Fluorescent yellow horizontal bands slice across the entire image like warning tape, partially obscuring the artwork beneath. Over this, bold, blocky black typography reading “Drawn to Extinction” runs vertically and dominates the composition, creating a sense of disruption and tension. The background feels like a collage of analogue craft under pressure, with visible pencil marks, notes, and expressive character art clashing against the harsh digital overlays, evoking the collision between human creativity and machine generation.
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kott studio @kharnaa.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A #halftone screen has exactly two colors. Every shadow in this frame is just a bigger dot, rendered live at 60fps: kott.io
A fisheye close-up of a green-furred creature's face against a hot pink background, split down the middle by a hard vertical line: full color on the left, the same frame recreated as a black-and-magenta halftone dot screen on the right. A headline across the top reads "The tone is only dot size." with a small KOTT.IO wordmark below it.
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Patrick King @patrickkingart.com · 10/10/2026
Hello! I'm Patrick and I make all kinds of digital art, as well as graphic design, web design, motion graphics, and some 3D modeling. Since it's 🎃spooky season🎃 here's a piece from a series I did a few years ago called Las Damas Fatales. Check out more at patrickkingart.com!
Lady of Blood - skull faced woman in a red dress that turns into blood on the floor standing in a skull-adorned archway
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Dusk The Art Fox @endellionfox.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Where's everyone going? Bedtime? #ResidentEvil #LeonSKennedy #RE4 #FanArt #DigitalArt
A three-scene digital fan illustration titled "Domestic Leon Study," featuring Leon S. Kennedy from Resident Evil enjoying domestic life. Drawn in a clean, anime-inspired comic style with soft pastel halftone backgrounds.

Top: Leon, wearing a fitted black T-shirt, washes dishes at the kitchen sink, smirking as he says, "Don't dish it out if you can't take it. Let that sink in."

Middle: Wearing a navy sweater, Leon folds laundry atop a washing machine. He jokes, "I wouldn't play poker with these clothes. They fold way too easily." Then adds, "Look at you now, all washed up."

Bottom: A muscular Leon smiles tenderly while holding a peacefully sleeping, orange-haired baby in a green chest carrier. The baby wears bright blue pajamas, one tiny hand resting against his chest. Leon looks toward the viewer with a knowing smirk and delivers the final joke: "Guess you won't be the only one calling me daddy anymore."

Artwork by Elizabeth Fox.
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MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Paste-up FTW! I don't have the electrostencil cutter any more but had fun with a small fleet of Gestetner duplicators (the 366 is the Gold Standard), colour change kits, a Varityper, and on one occasion an MPP 5x4 technical camera with Polaroid back and halftone screen! I must have been mad. 3:O)>
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Hyo @hyoninnuri.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
halftone practice with #two-face! I think i learned a lot! #harveydent #twobats (if you squint)
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Akira Terada @✄ @akrtrd.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"1557" UNTITLE #photoglitch #akiraterada #glitch #glitchart #glitchartist #digitalart #digital #digitalartist #collageart #collage #collageartist #photo #photocollage #photographie #art #artist #artwork #digitalcollage #コラージュ #アート #グリッチ
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SynaMax 🎧 Nested Dreams Dev // Video Game Historian @synamax.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Found more unused effects from the Vid Kidz archives, but I'm running into some issues with implementing them at the moment. Right now, making the player character die too many times in a short duration can cause the game to crash and create some cool glitch art.
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Ricardo Wang @ricardowang.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
You Tell Me #youtellme #digitalphotography #photomanipulation #glitchart #multipleexposure #surreal #portland #oceansidecalifornia #mashup #postbloomscrolling #spiral #tentacles #buildings #reflections #mandala #sunlight #psychedelic #nogenerativeai
Digital multiple exposure of plant life in Oceanside California and buildings and reflections of buildings in Portland Oregon spiralling through glitch art to create a mashup mandala.
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The Type Founders @thetypefounders.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New font release! IvyMazarin from IvyFoundry now has a second optical size. Jan Maack’s IvyMazarin Big is made for sharp editorial design and striking brands: narrower, sharper, and more tightly spaced, with an even larger x-height. Explore IvyMazarin Big → ivyfoundry.com/families/ivymazarin
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kott studio @kharnaa.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The more finished a website or app brief looks when it reaches us, the slower the project goes. Someone spent weeks making it right, so now it has to stay right. Nobody has to be right about a napkin. What did your last idea look like before you tidied it up?
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Glass Bless U @glassblessu.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Guys! We just opened a brand new Etsy shop!🎉 Feel free to go check it out! Since we’re a small studio with limited hands, our main focus and full collection will still live on our official website. Etsy will mainly feature our Little Ghostie series for now!👻✨ #glassart #etsy
GlassBlessU Etsy store
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kott studio @kharnaa.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What's something you shipped recently that nobody else noticed? Small counts. It's usually the thing you're proudest of anyway.
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kott studio @kharnaa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What's the one thing on your own website you keep meaning to fix and never quite get to? No judgement, I think almost everyone running a site has one.
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UI UX Design Services US @uiuxdesignservices.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A modern dark-themed SaaS trading dashboard UI mockup displayed on a laptop. Features high-contrast charts, clean analytics cards, clear typography, and an intuitive layout designed for optimal user experience. #UIUX #UIUXDesign #SaaS #Design
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newblue25.bsky.social @newblue25.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Typography has always been my favorite part of graphic design.
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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @eliseswords.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm thinking just us raising prices & posting to the same hashtag, maybe reposting each other for discoverability (I won't have time or spoons to set up a group landing page, though if you're on my SFF Direct or Books Direct Round the World blogs & participating, I can post those on the hashtag too.
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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Turning Beatrice Warde's book title into a motto for us — type designers, calligraphers, lettering artists — because we're entrusted with shaping letters and words! An intro to my lecture at St Bride's. #typography
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kott studio @kharnaa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Three dither effects running live in the browser, all on one statue's face in kott.io. Each #dither is a rule for where the black dots go: diffusion passes the leftover grey on to the next pixel, Bayer sticks to a fixed grid, and mezzotint scatters dots at random.
A classical marble statue's face, close up, in hard black and white 1-bit dither: curls of hair at the top, one eye and the nose lit, the rest in shadow. Headline: Every pixel here is black or white, with black or white in pink. Label: 1-bit diffusion, 1 of 3. kott logo bottom left.The same statue face, same crop, in an ordered Bayer dither: a fine regular grid of dots draws the hair, eye and nose in even grey tones. Headline: A fixed dot grid drew this face, with fixed dot grid in pink. Label: ordered bayer, 2 of 3.The same statue face again in mezzotint: grainy random speckle, deep blacks, the lit nose and cheek picked out in scattered dots. Headline: Every dot here fell at random, with at random in pink. Label: mezzotint, 3 of 3.
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Arthur @schmidtpabst.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When generation becomes cheap, selection becomes more valuable. NC Tarot was not a task of making a few striking images. It was holding one system across 78 cards, a handbook, and a 400-page course. Constraint, rejection, selection, integration. design.schmidtpabst.com/work/
design.schmidtpabst.com
Design Case Studies | Code:Emotion Design
Selected interface, system, editorial, brand, and experimental design case studies by Arthur Schmidt-Pabst.
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kott studio @kharnaa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The same sentence, tiled down the card, gets heavier with every row until it goes nearly black. No second typeface, just the weight axis doing the work in #Wobble, live at kharnaa.com/playground/wobble
A tall yellow card. A black band across the top reads "One typeface can carry the whole page." Below it, rows of small blue letters repeat that same sentence, growing heavier toward the bottom of the frame until the last rows are nearly black. A small dark tag in the lower left reads "Made in Wobble."
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kikstr @kikster.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Recently I decided to get into streaming as a way to socialize while I'm painting. But first I had to learn motion design and how to use Cavalry to make the screens you only see for a couple of minutes at a time lol 😩 But look, I did it!! And it was fun! You can see it live on twitch: kikistrim 😈
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Marco Gomiero @marcogomiero.com · 04/10/2026
I got inspired by seb and I've used his WIP Android UX skills github.com/rock3r/an... and Chris Sinco github.com/c5inco/to... The result looks amazing 🙌
github.com
GitHub - rock3r/android-ux-skills: Agent skills for Android motion and design-engineering craft. Unofficial, work in progress.
Agent skills for Android motion and design-engineering craft. Unofficial, work in progress. - rock3r/android-ux-skills
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kott studio @kharnaa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Open your own #website on your phone right now and count the taps to the one thing you actually sell, out loud, so you hear the number. On ours, home to contact, that's two, on kott.studio.
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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 03/10/2026
A book example from my own shelves. Novel Gothic type and one of Ralph Steadman's "Paranoids". Design by Karen Katz, 1988.
A paperback book: Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream by Jay Stevens. All-type cover design with a mutated Polaroid photo as a vignette illustration.
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Karl Groves @karlgroves.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Mobile form inputs should use appropriate keyboard types. type='email' gives an email keyboard. Learn more from AFixt.
buff.ly
Mobile App Accessibility: Best Practices for Inclusive Design - AFixt
In today’s digital world, mobile apps are a cornerstone of how we interact, shop, bank, work, and entertain ourselves. But for millions of users with disabilities, these apps can be a frustrating barrier...
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🌸 Epona 🌸 @eponamoon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Design test. Nothing clean thought it would be fun to create my own flying type eeveelution no name yet though fluttereon #Fakemon #Pokemon #Eeveelution
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Plush Rush @plushrush.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
also while I'm complaining, oh my god you guys you don't have to design your Ice type Fakemon w/ ice diamonds on them!! I've seen this done 9000 times... like good god you can design a type ANY way you want! Ice type does not have to be frigid & sharp, it could look soft, melty, slippery etc
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KittyLoli.exe 🏳️‍⚧️ @kittyloli.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They say a good character design can be told by silhouette alone but I feel like there's something extra to be said when I can just type out ᗜO and at least some people will instantly see him
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Pixel Prophecy @pixelprophecy.com · 02/10/2026
Apropos of nothing, here are some of my logo designs of the corporations in @greatdismal.bsky.social 's seminal #cyberpunk novel, #Neuromancer #logodesign #art
Red and white baseball cap with a CYBERSPACE-7 logo type on it with Japanese katakana and a very 1980s-anime-like typeiPad cover in black with a bright yellow design of Maas NEOTEK with a yellow barcode Black mousepad with a red design of SENSE/NET depicting a silhouette face with circuit board tracesBlack and white design of Tessier-Ashpool surrounded by various kinds of bar codes
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Deluxe Poly @deluxepoly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Added lots of different dither styles.
Dithering demo in Deluxe Poly
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kott studio @kharnaa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Your website's real interview happens at 7:41 on a Tuesday, when a customer wants your hours and you are not there to answer. Most homepages are still busy explaining who founded the company.
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kott studio @kharnaa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
An AI page generator hands you pixels, not layers. UnHTML reads the real HTML underneath and rebuilds it as native Figma frames, text and auto-layout, free for up to 500 layers per import. unhtml.pro
Dark UI card for UnHTML. A Figma-style layers panel lists Hero and Nav rows tagged Auto, a Headline row tagged Text, then a highlighted Layer 500 row tagged Limit. Below it: the line Build with AI. Fix by hand, and three rules — free plan imports up to 500 layers, going over the cap means nothing imports, the one-time Pro upgrade removes the cap. Footer reads unhtml.pro, Figma plugin, one-time purchase.
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