Colophon
The specification, in public.
A colophon is the note at the back of a book that says how it was made. This is ours — a route rather than a footnote.
This site is set in three families and printed in sixteen Risograph inks. Everything below is the actual specification — the same values the components read at runtime.
The typefaces
Bricolage Grotesque
Display · 200–800
Handgloves 123
Literata
Reading · 200–900 + italic
Handgloves 123
Martian Mono
Instrument · 100–800
Handgloves
The ink library — sixteen, all AA
Fluoro Pink
#FF48B0
contrast 5.87:1 · AA
Federal Blue
#3D5588
contrast 6.98:1 · AA
Bright Red
#F15060
contrast 5.22:1 · AA
Green
#00A95C
contrast 5.89:1 · AA
Purple
#765BA7
contrast 5.21:1 · AA
Orange
#FF6C2F
contrast 6.42:1 · AA
Teal
#006B72
contrast 5.95:1 · AA
Sun Yellow
#FFB511
contrast 10.24:1 · AA
Aqua
#5EC8E5
contrast 9.37:1 · AA
Crimson
#E45D50
contrast 5.16:1 · AA
Lake
#235BA8
contrast 6.36:1 · AA
Grass
#397E58
contrast 4.63:1 · AA
Violet
#9D7AD2
contrast 5.30:1 · AA
Mint
#82D8D5
contrast 10.98:1 · AA
Blue
#0064A2
contrast 5.95:1 · AA
Fluoro Orange
#FF7477
contrast 6.91:1 · AA
The grid — twelve columns
The tokens
Paper#FBF7EFGround for every reading surface
Ink#14161AType, rules, the dark rooms
Cream#FFF8EEType on a saturated ink
Graphite#6E747DSecondary type, captions
Riso#FF5A1FThe recurring accent
Easecubic-bezier(.16,1,.3,1)One curve for the whole site
Rhythm1.00 · 0.70 · 1.24 · 0.82The hang, and the book