Colophon

Every page here is a file. There is no template engine at request time, no database, and no JavaScript.

Typography

Body text uses whatever old-style serif the reader already has — Iowan Old Style, Palatino, Georgia — and falls back to the system serif. Navigation and metadata switch to the system sans so they read as furniture rather than prose. No web fonts are downloaded, which removes the largest render-blocking request most sites carry.

Colour

An off-white paper tone, a warm near-black ink, one rust accent for links. The dark palette swaps the two neutrals and lifts the accent so it keeps its contrast on a dark ground.

Serving

The site is a directory of static files behind a reverse proxy that terminates TLS and compresses responses. Deploying is copying the directory.

index.html
about.html
colophon.html
privacy.html
404.html
styles.css
favicon.svg
robots.txt
notes/

That listing is the entire build system.