Credits and inspiration
Every page on husam.world is based on something real. Here are the sources, page by page, and what each one gave.
The front page index
- Paco Coursey and Rauno Freiberg, for the name at the size of the text, one short line, and a quiet list where nothing moves until you touch it.
- Derek Sivers and Dan Luu, for a page that loads right away. The 3D world only downloads when you ask for it.
- Steph Ango, for the Flexoki paper and ink colors, shared with the résumé.
The world index
- Bruno Simon, folio-2025, for a world you drive around instead of a page you scroll.
- Bruno Simon, folio-2019, for the little car and the buildings you drive up to.
- Messenger by Abeto, for the little planet on the title screen and the people who talk as you pass.
Capitol bill
- congress.gov and the GPO bill print, for the tracker, the actions table and the typeset bill.
- gwern.net, for notes that sit in the margin beside the line they explain.
Chamber speech
- Hatch Show Print, for wood-type fight posters, every line fitted to the measure.
- NCAA scoreboards, for the scores bar, the bracket and the scorebug.
- dennissnellenberg.com, for the round button whose fill slides out on leave.
Bridge translation
- Library of Arabic Literature (NYU Press), for facing Arabic and English pages and plain chapter openings.
- Loeb Classical Library, for the small, serious parallel-text book.
- Amiri, for the Arabic type, a revival of the Bulaq Press naskh.
Polling Station n1
- The Pudding, for one person running a small study in front of you.
- Pew toplines, for the routing line, the question ID and the plain response table.
- Scantron forms, for the bubbles and the form furniture.
Map Room triptik
- AAA TripTik, for strip maps in a spiral booklet, with an orange highlighter along the route.
- Vignelli's 1972 subway map, for straight lines, clean angles and a color for each line.
- Sanborn maps, for the notched KEY banner.
Garage os
- henryheffernan.com, for a computer you boot into, with a Start popup and a showcase.
- dustinbrett.com (daedalOS), for windows that open and minimize, a Run box and a terminal.
Pier depths
- neal.fun/deep-sea, for one long scroll down, with a counter that keeps running as you go.
Plaza weeks
- Wait But Why, “Your Life in Weeks”, for a life drawn as a grid of small boxes.
- Feltron annual reports, for a year of one person's own numbers, set as a report.
- GitHub's contribution graph, for week columns, day rows and five shades of green.
Airport everywhere
- play.ertdfgcvb.xyz (Andreas Gysin), for a globe drawn in characters.
- Solari split-flap boards, for departures that flip letter by letter.
- Otl Aicher's pictograms, for the signs, drawn on a 45 and 90 degree grid.
Résumé facts
- danluu.com, for a page with no web fonts that puts the words first.
- Steph Ango's Flexoki, for the paper and ink colors.
- Brittany Chiang, for a quiet date column beside each role.
Where it started
Before any of this, Husam kept a long list of personal sites he liked, from loud ones to plain ones. Several of the sources above came from that list. Others on it include joshwcomeau.com, lynnandtonic.com, frankchimero.com and maggieappleton.com.