COLOPHON

This site used to be a Jekyll page with a minimal GitHub Pages theme. It was fine. It also looked like every other Jekyll page with a minimal GitHub Pages theme.

I rebuilt it because I wanted a place that felt like a thing I made rather than a template I filled in. The visual reference is Cheng Lou’s site — the warm paper, the serif body, and the quiet way it uses space. A well-typeset book page is an extremely high bar, and I don’t think I’ve cleared it, but it’s the bar I’m aiming at.

It’s an Astro site — mostly static HTML, almost no JavaScript on the page you’re reading. Posts are MDX so I can drop in an interactive demo later if one calls for it. The body is Iowan Old Style with Palatino and Georgia fallbacks, so there’s no webfont to download. Labels are Inter, set in small caps with wide tracking — the one nod to a “tech” aesthetic I allowed myself. The palette is paper #f6f0e6, ink #11100d, and a terracotta accent at #d97757 that only shows up on hover, on selection, and under the active nav link.

The two glows in the corners are radial gradients fixed to the viewport. They do nothing except make the page feel lit from somewhere.

There’s a projects page, an about page, and this is the first writing post. If you want to follow along, there’s an RSS feed. If you want to say hi, email works.