Tyler Nickerson

which circle of hell is this

Rejected hero. What do we think?

A, B, or C? 🤔

recent brand exploration

This goes incredibly hard my dude 🔥

Yeah I’ve used WhatTheFont and Identifont… I think they really excel in paid fonts, but can miss a lot of free ones or ones not in their database. Recoleta is fortunately just a very popular font, so is probably easy to ID.

It’s hit or miss haha. Sometimes if the company had a public rebrand it will just look up the fonts they used. Sometimes it has to guess and am not fully sure of the accuracy there lol. Pretty convenient nevertheless!

Submission card for Content Reward 🎥

Help settle a debate – which visualization works best? A, B, or C? 🤔

@obscuravpn 🤝🏻 kojo.design

Kojo Coffee Chat | Tyler Nickerson | Cal.com Kojo Coffee Chat

If you'd like to ship a new website in 4-6 weeks, book some time at cal.com/tnick/30min.

And for those who are wondering "wHaT abOuT FraMeR": while no-code tools are great for shipping quickly, in my experience eventually you hit performance or product needs that demand a custom solution.

That's where I come in :)

GitHub - KojoDesign/astro-boilerplate: Everything you need to build a marketing site Everything you need to build a marketing site. Contribute to KojoDesign/astro-boilerplate development by creating an account on GitHub.

That's it for this list!

For a peek into how I build websites at Kojo, I've actually open-sourced the boilerplate I use for all my new web projects. It's a perpetual WIP and needs some doc updating, but I promised you a freebie so:

github.com/kojodesign/...

AI is never a silver bullet (yet, anyway).

While over time I've come to rely on Claude for addressing PR feedback or scaffolding new pages, it is never pixel perfect and almost always needs carefully review. This is something I'm still trying to get better at doing.

Not everything NEEDS to be code.

When I first started, every animation or visual I'd end up coding by hand in HTML or React. Unfortunately, these don't always scale well. Lately I've been using Rive to create scalable WebGL animations that are too complex for code.

Boilerplate, don't template.

To kick off every new project as fast as possible, I have a custom repo setup with my common dependencies preinstalled so I can just clone and hit the ground running. I always change the styles and layouts though.

Systemize everything you can.

I start every project with shadcn components, along with some custom handwritten primitives like <Typography /> and <Stack /> that I can adapt to the design system I've created for clients in Figma.

Stick with what you know and what will help you move FAST.

For me, I chose Astro due to its ability to work with any UI framework, minimal markup, and built-in support for Markdown, web fonts, image optimization, and more. Vercel deploys my code with a single Git push.

Since starting Kojo Design in 2023, I've single-handedly designed, coded, and launched 18+ multi-page marketing websites.

Here's what I learned (plus a bonus freebie at the end!) 🧵

There's literally nothing that brings me more joy than seeing these "viral" X designs get absolutely CRUSHED on the Figma subreddit

E-Everyone's really all building the same thing, huh?

Make every interaction delightful 😊🎉

My new obsession:

Creating custom icon packs using ChatGPT

H1 2025 🔥

Finally updated my profile on here – time for no one to recognize me 😅

Haven't seen anyone else talking about this, but the fact that @figma uses AI to autocomplete your text layers now is such a nice little addition ☺️

Settings ⚙️

A or B? 🤔

What if browsers used AI to kill clickbait once and for all?

You hear plenty of talk about the creative process behind branding and logos.

What I wanted to know is the process behind creating mascots.

Where do you even begin with something like that?
How do you even get the creativity?