Cursor
The AI coding agent frames its interface shots inside 19th-century landscape paintings — parchment ground, oil-paint vistas, product windows floating in the foreground. The calmest page in the loudest category of software.
The discipline
Editorial
Print fundamentals executed on screen — grid, pace, and room to read.
9 on the wall
Watershed
The carbon-accounting platform that makes emissions data look governable: deep navy authority, cool blue data visuals, and a logo wall from FedEx to BlackRock. Enterprise climate software dressed for the board meeting it has to win.
Wealthsimple
Canada's money app argues its case in giant serif type: an itemized list of every fee the big banks charge, then four words — chequing, trade, invest, advice — set like a poem. Finance marketing with a literary spine.
The Verge
Tech journalism's loudest masthead: electric purple, clashing patterns, and a homepage that mixes lead stories with a live feed of quick posts. A redesign that bet a major publication could feel like a group chat, and won.
National Park Service
The federal website that half a billion visits depend on, opening with a scrapbook collage and settling into ranger-hat-steady utility. Find a park by state, learn the history, download the app — no drama, no dead ends.
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney's site runs a museum the way a great front page runs a newsroom: exhibitions lead, the grid holds, and the institution's W folds right into the masthead. American art, presented with total confidence in black and white.
Fonts In Use
An independent archive of typography in the wild — 34,000 samples and counting, every one identified, credited and filed. The reference desk for anyone who has ever asked "what typeface is that?"
Distill
The machine-learning journal that made research legible: interactive articles on neural networks, laid out with the patience of a textbook and the polish of a magazine. On hiatus since 2021, and still the standard everyone cites.
Craig Mod
A walker-writer's home on the web, built like a well-sewn book: laurel-crowned memoir up top, essays and newsletters below, everything set in patient serif type. Proof that a personal site can out-craft entire publishing houses.