Typography
EB Garamond — designed by Georg Duffner, an open revival of Claude Garamont’s sixteenth-century roman and Robert Granjon’s italic. Used for display, the wordmark, and editorial italics.
Lora — designed by Cyreal, a contemporary serif tuned for reading on screen. Used for body type.
IBM Plex Mono — designed by Mike Abbink and Bold Monday for IBM. Used for labels, metadata, and code. Released under the SIL Open Font License.
Photography & illustration
If photography ever appears on this site, it will be real, attributed, and licensed. No stock. The bristlecone silhouettes and ring cross-sections are drawn in-house from our own field sketches and public-domain dendrology illustrations.
EB Garamond, Lora, and IBM Plex Mono are released under the SIL Open Font License (OFL) version 1.1. Per-font attributions are at /legal/fonts.txt; the full OFL text is published by SIL at scripts.sil.org/OFL.
Build
Right now: hand-written HTML, hand-written CSS, hand-written JS. Deployed via GitHub Pages. Plausible for the bare measurement we keep. When the site grows enough to warrant a build step, we will move to Astro and document the change here.
Materials we don’t use
No third-party trackers. No retargeting pixels. No chat widgets. No popups. No A/B testing on our own readers. No cookie banner because there is nothing to consent to. The site is, as nearly as we can make it, the same as a printed booklet you found on a friend’s coffee table.
Source & credits
The brand work was done by the founding team. The visual system reference lives in design-system.html and brand-book-a4.pdf. The site source is private at the moment; we will open the templates if it ever feels useful to others.
All third-party names, marks, and logos referenced on this page are the property of their respective owners. Mention here does not imply endorsement or partnership.
Steady, on purpose. 2026.