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How this site was made

Typography

Cormorant GaramondHeadings and display text — a revival of the 16th-century Garamond typeface, chosen for its scholarly warmth.

DM SansBody copy and UI labels — a low-contrast geometric grotesque designed for screen legibility.

IBM Plex MonoMetadata, dates, eyebrow labels — IBM's humanist monospace with a technical character.

All fonts are self-hosted and served from /data/fonts/.

Built with

01UI

React 19

Component architecture powering interactive games, interfaces, and UI elements.

02Framework

Next.js 16

App Router framework providing server components, Turbopack, and static pre-rendering.

03Styling

Tailwind CSS

Utility-first styling with modern PostCSS engine driven by custom design tokens.

04Content

MDX & Remark

Markdown and MDX processing pipeline powering essays and newsletter publications.

05Deploy

Vercel

Edge hosting and global CDN with automated deployments from the main branch.

06Analytics

GoatCounter

Open-source, cookieless, privacy-respecting page view tracking.

Colour palette

Cream

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Cream Dark

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Green

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Terracotta

#C4704F

Gold

#C9A44C

Ink

#1A1A18

Hosting & deployment

Deployed on Vercel from the main branch. The site ships as a high-performance, statically pre-rendered Next.js application, leveraging React Server Components and MDX for unified essays and interactive pages.

If you like what you see, star our GitHub repository!

github.com/SqrtNegativOne/axiom-web