PORTFOLIO VOL.10 — KINETIC EDITORIAL ENGINEER — SET · KERN · PROOF
I SET TYPE THAT MOVES
I'm Garvit Pandia, a design technologist from Northern Arc Institute of Design & Technology who treats the browser as a letterpress. I build kinetic editorial systems — variable-font playgrounds, kerning engines, and layout tools that set type by hand and measure it by machine.
Editorial systems where letters and layout are engineered, not just styled — variable fonts, grid rhythm, motion with a measure.
Written performance budgets, fixed measures, proof sheets before pixels. Every build ships with its own spec.
Typography, whitespace, and restraint. The best interfaces whisper — they don't shout.
Scroll scenes pinned at 60fps on mid-range phones, verified on-device — performance is part of the proof sheet.
A type specimen generator for the web — one URL becomes a full specimen sheet: axis ranges, sample texts, kerning pairs.
See the invisible geometry of type — a bookmarklet that overlays baseline, x-height, and overshoot on any live page.
A variable-font playground — real-time axis scrubbing with comparison ghosts, 60fps with four axes live.
The kerning game — daily puzzles scored against professional pairs. You will lose gracefully.
Print preview that catches the lies — simulates ink, paper, and press conditions for web-to-print.
An editorial layout engine — grid-rhythm long-form web with 12 ready templates and a 96 Lighthouse score.
A narrative scrolling engine for long reads — scenes pause and resume cleanly, even after tab switches.
API design that catches mistakes before code does — contract-first scaffolding with breaking-change detection.
Every site he shipped for us came with a written performance budget — and he held it. Twice he pushed back on scope and was right both times.
Devika Rao — Studio Director, Quarry & Quill
He learned our clients' taste faster than any contractor we've had. The hotel sites he shipped feel like the buildings themselves.
Ananya Joshi — Design Director, Garnet & Glass
Our writers write differently in Vellum. It is the only tool they have ever called 'quiet' as a compliment.
Rukmini Rao — Editor, The Ghat Press
KITE & CRANE STUDIO — design studio
QUARRY & QUILL — design studio
QUARRY & QUILL — editorial & product builds
Northern Arc Institute of Design & Technology · 2021–2025 · type-design coursework