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Roman Shamin

Prev. Head of Design

@romanshamin_en

Products

Martian Grotesk
Martian Grotesk
An open typeface family with a strong personality designed for web and digital projects. It contains a variable font and 63 styles. Martian Grotesk appears legible on most platforms, even when being rendered in small sizes.
Martian Mono
Martian Mono
Martian Mono is a monospaced version of the Martian Grotesk for code style design. It's the first Evil Martians open source typeface on the market.

Open source projects

OKLCH Color Picker & Converter
OKLCH Color Picker & Converter
OKLCH Color Picker & Converter helps designers and web developers pick and convert colors in OKLCH and LCH color space, enhance a11y in their projects, and prepare for a future with a vibrant P3 color space.
Polychrom
Polychrom
A Figma plugin that ensures UI text is readable by leveraging the new APCA algorithm.
Harmony
Harmony
Accessible UI Color Palette
Color Name
Color Name
A Figma plugin that answers the question “How should I name this color?” once and for all.
State Machine
State Machine
A Sketch plugin that allows you to use ⌃⌘S to switch an active tab on a tab bar you’re designing, an active navigation section in a menu, or a page number in a pagination control.
Compo
Compo
A Sketch plugin that makes it easier to work with interface components.
Sort Me
Sort Me
A Sketch plugin that makes sorting artboards and layers dead simple.
Size Marks
Size Marks
A Photoshop™ script for web designers and frontend engineers.
Evil Icons
Evil Icons
A simple and clean SVG icon pack with the code to support Ruby on Rails, Sprockets, Node.js, Gulp, and Grunt.

Posts

Weeks → days: a case for expert-led, AI-driven design engineering
Weeks → days: a case for expert-led, AI-driven design engineering
June 17, 2025
3 smart ways to highlight features for landing pages or launch weeks
3 smart ways to highlight features for landing pages or launch weeks
January 28, 2025
Ease and epiphany: 4 ways to stop misguided dev tools user onboarding
Ease and epiphany: 4 ways to stop misguided dev tools user onboarding
December 17, 2024
Woah, opacity! A full guide to this badass hero of efficient UI design
Woah, opacity! A full guide to this badass hero of efficient UI design
October 29, 2024
Designing Tegon: a signature vision for the AI-driven issue tracker
Designing Tegon: a signature vision for the AI-driven issue tracker
September 25, 2024
Want to make a great developer tool UI? Follow this fundamental rule!
Want to make a great developer tool UI? Follow this fundamental rule!
August 5, 2024
Beyond monospace: the search for the perfect coding font
Beyond monospace: the search for the perfect coding font
June 25, 2024
CLI UX best practices: 3 patterns for improving progress displays
CLI UX best practices: 3 patterns for improving progress displays
April 15, 2024
MVPs, prototypes, results: how to win with a Martian Design Sprint
MVPs, prototypes, results: how to win with a Martian Design Sprint
April 8, 2024
Hiring a product designer: 1 hard skill and 3 soft skills to look for
Hiring a product designer: 1 hard skill and 3 soft skills to look for
January 30, 2024
Pen, paper, IDE: a DevTool Founder’s early-stage product design guide
Pen, paper, IDE: a DevTool Founder’s early-stage product design guide
December 4, 2023
“Design first, then build”: let’s bury this myth forevermore
“Design first, then build”: let’s bury this myth forevermore
March 10, 2023
OK, OKLCH: a color picker made to help think perceptively
OK, OKLCH: a color picker made to help think perceptively
February 7, 2023
One does not simply design: designers as product owners
One does not simply design: designers as product owners
November 17, 2022
The joy of Variable Fonts: getting started on the Frontend
The joy of Variable Fonts: getting started on the Frontend
July 6, 2022
Figma DIY: Building a color system plugin
Figma DIY: Building a color system plugin
June 2, 2022
Variable fonts in real life: how to use and love them
Variable fonts in real life: how to use and love them
March 24, 2022
Accessible design from the get-go
Accessible design from the get-go
July 26, 2021
Product design that sells: the smart UX for Tines
Product design that sells: the smart UX for Tines
May 26, 2020
Compo: UI components in Sketch
Compo: UI components in Sketch
May 12, 2016
State Machine: The State Switcher
State Machine: The State Switcher
August 6, 2015

Past events

Layers Meetup 02: Meet the Evil Martians
By Nina Torgunakova, Roman Shamin and Gleb Stroganov
Layers Meetup 02: Meet the Evil Martians
Nov 8, 2023Layers Meetup
Layers Meetup: Resolving text accessibility dilemmas in UIs
By Roman Shamin
Layers Meetup: Resolving text accessibility dilemmas in UIs
Nov 8, 2023Layers Meetup
Mastering dynamic UI theming for designers
By Roman Shamin
Mastering dynamic UI theming for designers
Sep 25, 2023Layers
Bites and Bytes: meetup for developers and designers in Lisbon
By Alexander Baygeldin, Roman Shamin, Gleb Stroganov and Olga Rusakova
Bites and Bytes: meetup for developers and designers in Lisbon
Sep 14, 2023Bites and Bytes
Mastering dynamic UI theming for designers
By Roman Shamin
Mastering dynamic UI theming for designers
Sep 14, 2023Bites and Bytes

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