Visualgui 2026

Allow me to reintroduce my blog. The 2026 redesign of Visualgui.com has launched. As usual, I would like to give my blog a new look at least once a year around December. In these last few years, however, skiing and snowboarding had taken up my time. Furthermore, I became attached to the 2025 rendition. Nevertheless, I needed to make a change. I have to keep my site fresh and I have to keep up my web design and development games.

One of the nice things about working on my own project is that I have no expectations. I could make any changes I wanted, though I rarely moved away from legibility and readability. It’s a blog; therefore, text has to be the primary focus and I always love using new typefaces.

The Visualgui 2026 redesign is inspired by Dương Trần, a young, promising type designer living and making fonts in Hà Nội, Việt Nam. I got to know him from FutureFonts, where I licensed his fonts. He recently updated Lavishe, an elegant serif face. Even though Lavishe is still a work in progress, it has enough weights and matching italics to be used on a production site. Lavishe has not only beautiful characters, but also lovely diacritical marks. I have to use it on my site.

In searching for a pairing for Lavishe, I returned to FutureFonts and found Siryous, Trần’s work-in-progress monospaced sans-serif. I licensed it. Even though Siryous isn’t fully developed, it has enough glyphs for what I need for my blog. I can’t wait for future updates of this typeface.

For the blog layout, I wanted to return to the grid system. I even brought back the sidebar to give the vibe of a blog. No, blog is not dead yet—at least not for me. After 23 years, I still love blogging.

I experimented with different colors. I almost settled on a fresh green, but I pulled back to black and white. I just love how Lavishe is read on a crisp, clean, white background. I also offered the dark mode for those who like to read white text on black background. I don’t have a switch button. It goes along with your preference setting.

I applied CSS grid and fluid layout to take up the entire browser. I put a limit on the width of paragraph text to keep readability, but the layout has no maximum width. I opened up the design and bumped up the text size. Yes, I am getting old and I need the text to be large enough to read.

The redesign of Visualgui 2026 doesn’t break any new ground, but for the first time my blog is set in typefaces designed by a Vietnamese type designer. For someone who has been promoting the enrichment and expansion of “Vietnamese Typography,” I can’t ask for more. Keep up the excellent work, Dương Trần.