kott studio

kott studio

@kharnaa.bsky.social

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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INVERT I need to start actually releasing music so I can design myself weird album art. #photography #digitalart

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Chipping away at this one 🍄 Halftones can take so long, but are also very fun #digitalart #art #halftones #comicbookart #artist #illustrator #illustration

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I've been toying with different post processing stuff just recently. I usually would rather just draw with textured brushes than go through some final step like this but I can't deny I like the result. I'm just a sucker for halftone every time.

We built two free little tools that turn one word into a short animation. One draws it out of dots, the other pours it into a spiral. Reply here with a word you'd never put on a website. When I post what it makes, I never say who sent it, so bring the odd ones. Jane

Resonance is a free #GenerativeArt tool that runs in your browser. Type any word and it turns into a cloud of moving particles. Drag through it and the letters scatter, then drift back. Save it as a poster or an app icon. We typed Monday. What word would you type first?

Your ugliest photo still comes out looking like #art. Doesn't matter what's actually in the shot, the same effect runs every time, free to try: https://kott.io

A flattened import comes back as Group 47 and Rectangle 12, nothing you would recognize. Ours lands in #Figma as Hero, Nav and Actions, the names the page already had. unhtml.pro

The names matter more than they should. Fixing a page by hand is mostly answering which layer is this, and Hero answers it before you click. Group 47 means opening groups until you find it. We have not measured how much time that saves, only that nobody using it has asked to turn it off.

What makes you close a small business website before you buy anything? The owner never hears which moment it was. I build these sites, so tell me. Rude is fine, I've met the popups. Jane 1. The popup 2. Can't find the price 3. Slow on my phone 4. No way to book Reply with a number.

A small business website nobody's touched in two years tells visitors you might have closed. Old prices, a contact form emailing someone who left. When did yours last change? Opening hours don't count. 1. This year 2. 1 to 2 years ago 3. Longer than that 4. I don't have one Reply with a number.

Mono blur is a #MotionBlur look in kott.io. On a tiger portrait it kept the face sharp and smeared only the fur coat sideways, as if the tiger turned mid-shot. What would you have put through it instead of a tiger?

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From the Nile's banks to hand-carved citrus lanterns: how editorial design and natural environments influence Chapter four of Coptic Heritage Awakening. We combine minimalist craft with local tradition. #BookDesign #EditorialDesign #GraphicDesign #VisualStorytelling #coffeetablebookdesign

The frame never moves. Same photo, same algorithm, kott just re-inks it four times. Green reads like night vision, magenta reads like a diner sign that was never there. Still haven't found a fifth ink that beats all four.

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Replying to @letter-exchange.bsky.social

An evening of craftsmanship, stories and a lifelong fascination with letters in all their glittering variety. 📅 Wednesday 18th November 📍 The Art Workers’ Guild, Central London 🎟 Tickets on Eventbrite www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/letter-exc...

eventbrite.co.ukLetter ExchangeLetter Exchange is a society founded in 1988 for professionals involved in the lettering arts, from calligraphy and lettercutting through design for print, type and book design to architectural letter...

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Meltcargot - These volcanic mollusks swim and leap out of lava pools to block enemies from moving forward. Along with their self-ignition for fighting, their shells provide extra protection in combat. #OriginalCharacter #OC #CharacterDesign #MegaMan

Resonance is a free animated #logo maker in your browser. Type a name and it's spelled in a few thousand dots that scatter under your cursor and pull back into the letters. What name would you try to knock over first?

A crow and a woolly friend took a selfie. Then we ran it through ordered #dither, a free retro photo effect in kott.io: every grey becomes a pattern of black and white dots. Fur and feathers come out best. Try it on something furry.

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Replying to @busterhearts-type9.bsky.social

in pixquare, if you set the pencil to pressure sensitive dither, and set the color to transparent, and turn watercolor mode off, it functions as a dither eraser!

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Replying to @all-paperclips.bsky.social

All this code is open and accepting friendly PRs and strange mutations! It started as sound and video sensitive effects for live performances but isn't touch designer. The desktop version can be agentically managed. cyborg.garden/games/lighte...

cyborg.gardenLightEater · Cyborg GardenLightEater in the browser: a slime mold that eats the light from your camera, a live dither that prints it in a few inks, and a circuit bender that breaks it as a JPEG. Everything runs in this tab, an...

Who's launching something this month? A shop, an app, a new menu, a show, anything with a date on it. Tell me what it is and when. I'll come and look on the day, probably while you're still fixing a typo nobody else will ever notice. Jane

What are you working on this week? Side project or the actual job, one line is plenty. Half-finished counts. So does the one you've been meaning to start since March. Jane

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Replying to @daniel.pizza

You're welcome. It's a pretty theme, love the typography! There's clearly a lack of Ghost themes that let the words shine. For my purposes it might be a tad too minimalist, but I'll keep it in mind.

The small business websites I'd buy from get one dull thing right early. A plumber who names the towns they cover in the first line has my money before the About page. Which site made you want to buy? Yours counts. So does the bakery you keep sending friends to. Jane

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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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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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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!

Brecht De Ruyte@utilitybend.com

A candidate for Interop 2027: Scroll-Triggered Animations, the missing key to scrollytelling in CSS. I wanted to create demos showing how to wire them up and easily create fun effects (especially with typography). To be complete, I also added syntax info, tips, and tricks. Happy scrolly!

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Replying to @robzepdev.bsky.social

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.