Grids set with
the patience of a printer.
Ramirez & Sons is an independent imprint and a small design practice. We publish large-print puzzle volumes, and we build the quiet infrastructure other studios run on.
Three practices, one room.
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Sites
Design and build for studios, practices and small imprints. Static-first, fast, owned outright by the client — no platform rent, no plugin debt.
Signal
Social channel management for organisations that would rather sound like themselves than like a content calendar. Strategy, production, and the discipline to post less.
Imprint
The publishing practice. Puzzle volumes constructed, set, proofed and released through Amazon KDP under our own catalog.
The one on the press.
Vol. 01 / Anomalies
Unidentified
Ninety-nine grids assembled from the vocabulary of the unexplained.
View Volume — $9.99Volumes in Print
Grids Constructed
“A puzzle is a reading exercise wearing a disguise. Set it badly and the disguise is all that is left.”
Dominic Ramirez
Founder · Ramirez and Sons LLCNotes from the press room.
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A Vocabulary Is an Argument.
Choosing the ninety-nine strands that make up a volume is the entire editorial act. Everything after it is construction.
Read InvestigationAgainst the Difficulty Rating.
Three stars means nothing. A note on why our books ship without a difficulty scale and what we print instead.
Read InvestigationLow Glare Is an Accessibility Feature.
What proofing a book under a nurses’ station lamp taught us about interior stock, and why we changed the spec on every volume.
Read InvestigationEvery book carries a code. This is where it resolves.
Each volume ships with a QR code in the back matter. Scan it and you arrive at that book's solutions archive — the complete key, free, in exchange for an address we use sparingly.