Logos for banks, insurance firms, a toothpaste brand. Clean. Safe. Boring as oatmeal. She hated every pixel, but they paid for her mother’s medical bills. Each case study is a lie of enthusiasm: “We sought to disrupt the actuarial space with playful typography.” No. They sought to not get fired. The PDF preserves this honesty in its dishonesty.

And that is enough.

But that is the contract of the PDF: it flattens time, pain, and joy into a linear sequence of 8.5×11 rectangles. It says: Here is what I made. Guess who I am.

Dates, titles, skills. But look at the kerning between 2019 and 2020. It’s wider. That year she lost her father, then her job, then her belief in grids. The spacing is not a mistake. It is a gravestone.