May 2026
7 min
The grid you are meant to feel, never see
A good grid is scaffolding, not architecture. The moment a reader notices it, it has failed at the one thing it was there to do.
Words
On making things well
Short essays on typography, editing and the quiet parts of the craft. Written when there is something worth saying, which is rarer than a blog schedule would suggest.
Words
On making things well
Short essays on typography, editing and the quiet parts of the craft.
Feb 2026
5 min
In praise of a single typeface
Most projects need one family and the discipline to use its range. Reaching for a second is usually a failure of nerve dressed up as variety.
Oct 2025
9 min
Editing is a design decision
The strongest layout tool I own is a red pen. Half of what makes a page feel considered is the sentence that is no longer on it.
Jun 2025
6 min
Why the eleventh version was the first
You do not always arrive somewhere new. Sometimes the work is proving to yourself that the first instinct was right, by exhausting the alternatives.
Contact
Tell me what you’re making
What it is, roughly when, and what you can spend. All three, ideally. The third one saves us both a fortnight of politeness.
Enquiries
studio@marfa.design
Studio
By appointment, Lisbon
Telephone
+351 21 099 4420
Elsewhere
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