In development
The house, the wardrobe, the typeface.
Alongside the writing, there is design work: houses, a wardrobe system, a typeface. It is built the way everything here is built — in the open, in versions, and labelled by how ready it actually is.
Not everything here is ready, and this page will not pretend otherwise. Each project below carries its actual stage, and the concepts at the bottom are labelled as concepts. This is a landing page for work in progress — a place for it to expand into.
Current work
A house at design-intent stage, a wardrobe system at concept stage, and a typeface with a verified build. Each lives in a public repository, where its real state can be checked rather than taken on faith.
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In development — design intent
A version-controlled design for a future home: a “whimsical grandma home” — warm, collected, gently eccentric, and designed to be aged in. Requirements, decisions, materials, and a room-by-room model are developed in git, in the open. The documents are design intent, not construction drawings.
Open the repository ↗02
Concept stage
A wardrobe design system: roughly a hundred designed pieces and complete looks, each with a concept and a sourcing package. Built as a system — items, looks, and briefs — rather than a shopping list. Nothing here is in production.
Open the repository ↗03
Build verified — under review
A monospace typeface in development, intended as the apparatus face of the Softness ecosystem. It begins as a rename-deep derivative of Ubuntu Sans Mono: glyph outlines unchanged, original credits preserved, and the full build verified end to end. Letterform experiments come only after that baseline holds.
Open the repository ↗Future studies — concepts only
These are one-line concepts. No plans, no models, no dates. They are named here so that if one of them ever becomes a project, it arrives to a page that was already expecting it.
What comes next
When a project reaches a stage worth showing in more detail, it will get room of its own. Until then, the repositories above are the honest record. Questions about the design work go to the same place as everything else here — Branden, directly.
branden@softnessasastrength.com