Back matter
Colophon
A book worth reading says how it was set. This site is built the way the articles argue software should be: simple, deliberate, and legible to whoever maintains it next.
- The mark
- The monogram is భ - the Telugu letter bha, the first sound of Bhanu - drawn from Noto Serif Telugu and embedded as a single vector path, so no Telugu webfont ever ships. It signs the masthead, the favicon, the end of every article, and the foot of this page.
- Type
- Display settings are Fraunces, a soft serif with real optical sizes; running text is Newsreader, drawn for long-form reading on screens. JetBrains Mono appears only where monospace earns its keep: dates, numbers, and code. Body figures are oldstyle; code keeps lining figures.
- Color
- Paper ivory ground, warm ink text, and one accent - terracotta. The rule is simple: if something seems to need a second accent color, the design is wrong, not the palette. Structure is drawn with hairlines of diluted ink rather than boxes and shadows.
- Build
- Astro, server-rendered at the edge on Cloudflare Workers. Styling is Tailwind CSS v4 with tokens declared in CSS. Articles are MDX validated by Zod schemas. Pages ship no JavaScript framework; the only article script is a small contents scroll-spy when the article is long enough to need one.
- Posture
- Browsing is plain links, not client state or a public taxonomy. Articles carry an honest epistemic status, print cleanly, and end with an email address rather than a comment box. Complexity is added only when it improves clarity, discovery, or accessibility—and it is expected to prove it.