Louie Mantia, Jr.

Icon designer, type designer, artist, blogger.

Icon Design: https://www.parakeet.co
Personal Blog: https://lmnt.me
Cards & Games: https://www.junior.cards
Fonts: https://crowntype.com

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2026-05-20 07:46:23 CEST

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If we consistently draw the line that we will not allow ourselves to be violent because we want to maintain some kind of moral high ground, even when we are faced with violence, then we are simply permitting them to kill us. That’s a tough moral dilemma but one we desperately need to determine the answer to.

2026-05-20 07:43:44 CEST

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Of course we should be disruptive, but also we must understand the risk that the more we push, the more they will push back before they give in. Unfortunately, their methods of pushing back *will* be violent. We must not just reconcile with how far they’re willing to go, but how far *we* are.
“Why do we have to resort to non-violence? Can’t we just kick their asses?”
https://lmnt.me/blog/civilized-society.html

2026-05-20 06:42:24 CEST

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“These losses are a heavy price to pay for absolutely nothing in return. Our civility, tempered reactions, and pacifism are not rewarded with intervention or positive change of any kind. Our votes are not rewarded with anything.”
https://lmnt.me/blog/peaceful-protest.html

2026-05-20 06:42:00 CEST

“When the government disregards the rules of the game, what sense is there in the rest of us playing by the rules?”
https://lmnt.me/blog/wheres-the-line.html

2026-05-09 01:12:39 CEST

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Since late 2022, I’ve been doing a lot:
• a new home for what I write and make: https://lmnt.me/
• a portfolio site for my studio: https://parakeet.co/
• a portfolio site for Luka: https://grafera.zone/
• a 90s throwback site for my apps: https://kadomaru.app/
• a new site with games and wiki-like info: https://junior.cards/
• a blog for Japanese-language learnings: https://nandakke.jp/
• a site for my fonts: https://crowntype.com/
• a burger blog: https://burgerdigest.com/

2026-05-09 00:54:15 CEST

I don’t care if anyone else cares, but spending the time I have writing html and css has been one of the most rewarding things I’ve done in recent years.
It is incredibly powerful to be able to not just publish whatever you want, but present it exactly the way you want it to be presented. That’s what the web is. That’s what it should be.

2026-03-03 23:24:21 CET

I always wondered— do potential customers of fonts like these “waterfall” demo images, or is it something type designers just love to make?
Anyway, here’s Atencio.
→ https://crowntype.com/atencio/ ←
https://cdn.masto.host/pdxsocial/media_attachments/files/116/167/583/887/397/627/original/9c06fa763b1043df.png

2026-01-20 11:36:31 CET

This whole Trump Greenland thing is batshit bananas. I cannot understand it, no matter how I try. (Of course there’s no way to rationalize this imperialist bullshit. I just can’t understand why of all things in the world, this is the hill he wants to die on.)

2025-12-24 06:56:46 CET

In 2000, Apple introduced a service called iReview where they would review / rate websites so people could find which ones were good or useful.
I almost feel like we’re in desperate need of some way for independent organizations and individuals to review / rate websites. It should affect search ranking, probably.
There’s too much bullshit with the advent of AI slop, and without intervention, we’re just going to end up surfing in a sea of garbage. We should be able to demote trash.

2025-09-29 03:12:25 CEST

I don’t care how bad you think you are at HTML (and CSS). A website that you wrote the HTML yourself is infinitely better than any template-based website you pulled from somewhere else.
If you think it’s going to be too much work, I promise you, fiddling with a template-based solution is going to—somehow—be more work, especially to maintain as the framework, template, or font changes without you knowing.
Write it yourself. One of my all-time favorite websites is this: https://vitalesbakery.com

2025-08-12 04:28:09 CEST

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Other parks around the world have tried to replicate this to some extent but none of them quite hit the mark that Disneyland in California is able to attain.
It’s not that having a container for a lost tooth is particularly special. It’s that to get to the point where you are considering a container for a lost tooth, you have taken care of so much already. If you decide to “stop” before you get to that point, then something like this can never happen.

2025-06-28 10:36:41 CEST

You know, I could write a whole blog post about this—and I might—but I think we need to start addressing the very likely possibility that the *entire thesis* that “UI should get out of the way” and “apps should focus on content” is wrong.
Apps aren’t just for looking at photos or videos. They’re for navigating through these things, organizing them, editing them. The tools to do those things should not get out of the way. They should be clearly defined and separate from the content.
https://cdn.masto.host/pdxsocial/media_attachments/files/114/760/076/392/968/268/original/5cd8d53b5071ab07.png

2025-03-14 01:35:36 CET

Making a new app that demanded a nostalgic icon. I think it’s looking preeeeetty great.
🔗 https://lmnt.me/blog/sketchbook/buddies.html

2025-01-21 09:52:49 CET

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I’m embarrassed to admit this took about two full days to make, so if it is even a tiny bit amusing to you that I spent that much time on it, please click the donate button at the bottom of the post.
(I’m sorry, but the donate button actually didn’t work at the time I originally posted it. Now it does. Sorry about that, if you tried! It works now.)

2025-01-12 03:19:40 CET

As we get increasingly more tired with social media companies who keep inventing problems, I’m still wondering why more people don’t have websites and RSS feeds. It’s the way out.
🔗 https://lmnt.me/blog/range.html

2025-01-03 08:45:23 CET

⏳ Moments
🔗 https://lmnt.me/moments/

2024-09-13 14:25:54 CEST

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And non-artists, non-creative people may never, ever understand this. They’ll never get why this matters to you, why you wouldn’t fight against someone stealing your work. They’ll never get why you get upset about it. They’ll say stupid shit like, “imitation is the sincerest form of—” bullshit. Or misuse quotes like, “great artists steal.”
They will never understand that the work you put into something isn’t just about the tangible result, because the result hides years of life experience.

2024-09-13 14:23:02 CEST

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I can’t count how many instances I’ve seen of an artist helplessly flailing on social media because some big company stole their art and just shipped it like it’s no big deal. It’s happened to me, and I’ve also helplessly flailed on social media about it. It sucks. You can’t do anything because they’re just so much more powerful than you.
But this is the kicker. The time you’d spend rectifying it, against those odds... will just take time away from doing what you feel you have to do: make art.

2024-09-13 14:21:28 CEST

Basically all artists I know of—myself included—neglect so many other important things in their lives so they can make time for making art instead. Artists usually give up quite a lot to be artists. Making art is often not the most lucrative profession, so people who choose that path are doing so almost purely because they love it. They feel—deep down—that they need to do it.
After all that dedication, having your work stolen, used by companies and individuals... it its gut-wrenching.

2024-09-10 00:24:16 CEST

It’s 2024 and QuickLook on a folder in Finder doesn’t let you preview its contents in any way. You just get a jumbo folder icon.

2024-09-04 10:41:32 CEST

when ai summarizes your email is the goal that you dont read the actual email or that it helps you decide when to read it?
and how will you know if it summarized it accurately, without missing some key piece of information that would have not made you skip over it?
what I don’t quite understand is how you’ll know whether or not it’s doing a good job, thereby making you unsure if you’re doing a good job.