Colophon
How this site is made, the typefaces it is set in, and what it does and does not do with your visit.
This site is made slowly, by hand, from a small study in East Texas. It is meant for reading at the pace of a book, not a feed.
Type
The text is set in Newsreader, a serif made for long reading on screens, from Production Type. Captions and the interface are set in Inter, by Rasmus Andersson, and code in JetBrains Mono. All three are open-source typefaces, served from this site rather than from a font service.
Making
Essays begin as notes in Obsidian and are prepared for the site in Visual Studio Code. The design is Pilcrow, an Astro theme by Ondelva, adapted here. The site is built with Astro and hosted on GitHub Pages.
What the site does not do
There is no advertising, no comments, no share buttons, and no cookies. Visits are counted anonymously, without cookies and without identifying anyone, and the numbers are not shown. The privacy page has the details.
The epigraph
The lines on the home page are from Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh (1856), Book VII.
The season
The line at the foot of every page names the season of the church year, reckoned by the calendar of the Western church. It changes at midnight, Texas time, as the site is rebuilt each day.