Colophon

Vellum and ink

The visual system uses warm paper, near-black ink, and a restrained burnt orange, with translucency limited to chrome that floats over scrolling text; fine rules and warm umber shadows give evidence and navigation a physical edge without turning the publication into an interface demonstration. Recurring controls, surfaces, disclosures, and dialogs form Cole UI, a small native Astro system built from the same type, color, spacing, and motion vocabulary; it standardizes interaction mechanics without forcing evidence or authored layouts into uniform cards, keeps pointer motion brief and keyboard paths immediate, and removes spatial movement when reduced-motion settings are active.

Typography

Source Serif 4, designed by Frank Grießhammer for Adobe, carries display type, prose, and true italics. Inter, created by Rasmus Andersson, handles navigation, metadata, controls, and compact evidence. Both families are self-hosted variable fonts distributed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. The site supplies system fallbacks so reading does not depend on either font arriving.

Authorship and assistance

I write, review, and approve the public record. AI tools can help organize research, propose edits, implement code, and exercise tests. They do not decide what I believe, supply permission, or turn an uncertain claim into a fact. Source choice, factual boundaries, credit, privacy, and the decision to publish remain my responsibility.

Architecture

The publication is built with Astro and MDX content collections, and the production build generates static HTML, CSS, images, fonts, and a small amount of progressive-enhancement JavaScript; an edge worker delivers those static artifacts, while a service worker provides an offline fallback and freshness-aware caching for successful, cacheable navigation responses. Cole UI keeps ordinary links as fallbacks and builds disclosures and focused artifact inspection on native HTML, so core reading does not depend on a client framework. Cases, Essays, artifacts, identity records, and machine-readable surfaces share structured content contracts; private editorial fields and draft fixtures are excluded from the public build. Contact is a direct email link, not a form or message backend.

Access and weight

The site is designed as a readable document first: semantic landmarks and headings, visible keyboard focus, natural reflow, useful print output, forced-color support, reduced-motion behavior, and no essential content hidden behind JavaScript. Fonts are local and optional, images declare their dimensions, and static pages keep the runtime small. These choices support accessibility and performance; they are an ongoing practice, not a claim of universal conformance.