And by “old tricks,” I mean fancy formatting, custom fonts, on-brand color palette, and Photoshop to fake any of the above. Bear with me for now (and if you want to help make this newsletter less of an eyesore—holler). In any case, welcome to my first independent dispatch, which picks up where I left off in my Editor’s Notes column for Curbed.

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