Winter Garden

This is Robin Sloan’s pop-up newsletter of early 2026 —
it will run for six editions, then self-destruct.
Learn more here &/or subscribe below.

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This pop-up newsletter uses a few dif­ferent fonts.

The logo­type is set in Clavi­chord by David Jonathan Ross, who writes:

All of this led me to unearth a spindly black­letter that I started a couple years ago & aban­doned shortly thereafter. I didn’t return to the design because I love the style or because think it is par­tic­u­larly useful. I returned to it because it makes my skin crawl.

I used Clavi­chord in my 2025 zine The Secret Playbook because it was, at that time, illeg­ible to the gaze of AI. You might rea­son­ably reply: yes, & it is illeg­ible to my human gaze, as well. Just enjoy the spindles, then!!

Titles & body text are set in MD Primer & MD Lórien, both from Mass-Driver, the type foundry of Ruther­ford Craze, who has a pal­pable interest in technology, & the rich inter­play between display, reproduction, & typography. Check out MD Thermochrome!

This is Robin Sloan’s pop-up newsletter of early 2026. The topic is AI, from the per­spec­tive of a nov­elist and pro­grammer who has been working with these tech­nolo­gies since 2016.

The newsletter will run for six edi­tions & then I will delete the email list.

As always, there is a colophon.