How this site was made
Colophon.
A note about the type, the build, and the principles behind this small, slow website.
- Display type
- Fraunces, by Undercase Type. A warm display serif with real optical sizing, carrying the headings with a little character, confident without shouting.
- Body type
- Hanken Grotesk, by Mihail Apostolov. An even, readable grotesque chosen to stay quiet under long reading.
- Mono type
- JetBrains Mono, kept for the small technical print, dates, and the odd label, where a steady, engineered feel helps.
- Color
- Forest green and brass on warm bone, a hunter's palette. Light and dark are drawn separately, not inverted.
- Built with
- Astro, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS. Static HTML with a single interactive island for the radio. Source kept simple on purpose.
- Hosted on
- Amazon S3 with CloudFront in front. Static, fast, and unremarkable.
- Analytics
- Plausible: a simple, aggregate page-view count. No cookies, no personal data, no Google, and nothing to consent to.
- Author
- Khalid Rizvi, in Vienna, Virginia. Most of the writing happens early in the morning, before the rest of the day catches up.
The site exists because writing is how I find out what I think. Everything else is an organizing principle for the writing.