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Show the work. Write the why.
RyeType is a showcase community for designers who write. Posts lead with their covers, profiles read like portfolios, and every reply is read by a person before it goes up.
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For invited writers
Accounts are by invitation.
What you get
Built like a portfolio, read like a journal
Everything on a profile is there to show design work properly and explain it in full sentences.
Cover-led posts
Every post opens with its image. Grids of posts look like a wall of shots, not a list of headlines.
Profiles with tabs
A banner, a portrait, your link, then tabs for posts, categories and an about page you write yourself.
Replies, reviewed
Readers reply with a name. A moderator reads each reply before it appears under your post.
Follow by RSS
Every profile has its own feed, one click from the Follow button. The whole site has one too.
Made for the long caption
The kind of writing that lives here
Pictures carry the first impression. The words explain the decisions behind them.
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Process
Write-ups from the whiteboard
Sketches, wrong turns and the brief that changed halfway through, told in order.
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Craft
Type, grids and lettering
Why this typeface, why this measure, why the baseline grid finally clicked.
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Critique
Case studies and critique
Honest looks at shipped work: what held up, what did not, what you would change.
How it works
Small on purpose
Get an invite
Writer accounts are invitation-only. Tell us about your work through the contact page.
Publish with a cover
Post case studies, process notes and essays, filed under your own categories and tagged by topic.
Readers follow and reply
Anyone can read, follow your profile by RSS and leave a reply that a moderator reviews.
Free to read. Invite-only to post.
Start with the house journal, or tell us about the work you would like to show.