{"id":29,"date":"2026-09-11T21:03:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T21:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studiolo.example\/on-restraint\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T21:03:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T21:03:57","slug":"on-restraint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-studiolo\/on-restraint\/","title":{"rendered":"On restraint"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"is-style-lead wp-block-paragraph\">Restraint is often mistaken for minimalism. They are not the same. Minimalism is a style; restraint is a discipline \u2014 knowing exactly what a piece of work needs, and having the confidence to stop there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A restrained piece of design can be loud, colorful and full of detail. What it does not have is anything it doesn\u2019t need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The last ten percent<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most of the work of restraint happens at the end of a project, when everything is \u201cdone\u201d and the temptation is to add one more flourish. We have a simple test: if we removed this, would anyone miss it? If the honest answer is no, it goes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.<\/p>\n<cite>Antoine de Saint-Exup\u00e9ry<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Typography as a test case<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Typography is where restraint shows most. One typeface, a few sizes on a clear scale, generous spacing: it is astonishing how much expression fits inside those limits \u2014 and how quickly a page collapses without them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restraint is not minimalism. It is the discipline of knowing exactly what a piece of work needs \u2014 and having the confidence to stop there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5,13],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thinking","tag-craft","tag-typography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-studiolo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-studiolo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-studiolo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-studiolo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-studiolo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-studiolo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-studiolo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-studiolo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-studiolo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}