Colophon
The tokens, marks, and motifs this site is built from, and how it's put together.
The four voices
Surfaces stay warm paper, ink stays green-black – never pure white, never pure black.
Type specimens
Components
The compose slip (the mailto form) isn't duplicated here – see it live on the home page's "Write to me" section. A second copy on this page would just add noise.
The marks
The given name's "J" sits in Spectral at weight 600, copper – the one flash of colour in an otherwise quiet mark. The rest of the given name follows at a light 300 weight; the surname switches register entirely, set in EB Garamond small-caps, with its own copper "K". Two families, two weights, one mark.
The chop is a double rule – an outer border and an inset second border – around a small-caps "JK." in copper. Four brass ticks mark the corners, a printer's register mark rather than a decoration. It stands in for the wordmark wherever that would be too loud: the footer, small ceremony.
Motifs
- Marginalia – sidenotes living in the margin rail beside long-form prose, the annotation habit made structural.
- Engineering marks – tick marks, double rules, Fig.-style captions; the vocabulary of a drawing set, borrowed for a personal site.
- The ledger / No.-series – every essay and note carries a number, the archive kept like a logbook rather than a feed.
How this site is made
Obsidian. Writing happens first, in a local Obsidian vault – essays, notes, and books as plain markdown files with frontmatter.
Publish gate. A file only leaves the vault once its frontmatter sets publish: true; everything else stays private, by default.
Astro build, on a Raspberry Pi. Published files are handed over from the vault piece by piece, through a drop-folder inbox – never a live sync – then built into this static site with Astro, on a Raspberry Pi.
Cloudflare Pages. The built output deploys to Cloudflare Pages, which serves it over HTTPS at the edge.