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Written by Clara Moreau

Quiet Hours

A Sunday letter about attention, craft, and making things slowly. Written by a type designer in Lyon.

Latest issue 20 September 2026

Letters from the edge of summer

The light is changing, the studio is getting colder, and I am making a list of things to learn before winter.

Past issues

The shape of a good Sunday Twelve weeks of writing these letters, and what they have done to my Sundays. 13 Sep 2026

Tools I keep coming back to A paid-subscribers letter: the short, unglamorous list of tools that survived ten years of my studio. 6 Sep 2026

A short defense of boredom The best ideas I had this year arrived while waiting for a train that was forty minutes late. 30 Aug 2026

Reading slowly, on purpose I read one book all summer. It was the best reading year I have had in a decade. 23 Aug 2026

On finishing things A members-only letter about the drawer of half-made projects we all keep. 16 Aug 2026

Featured The forty-minute rule Why I stopped planning my days in hours and started planning them in forty-minute blocks. 9 Aug 2026

An inventory of good mornings Fourteen readers wrote back to tell me about their mornings. I made a list. 2 Aug 2026

What the letterpress taught me about mistakes When every letter is a piece of metal, you learn to slow down before the error, not after it. 26 Jul 2026

Notes on a borrowed notebook A friend lent me her grandfather's sketchbook from 1961. It is mostly letters, and mostly wrong. 19 Jul 2026

The case for a smaller desk I halved the size of my desk and doubled the amount of work I finished. A short report. 12 Jul 2026

Why I'm writing letters again An email you look forward to on Sunday morning, and nothing more ambitious than that. 5 Jul 2026

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