Colophon.
A note about the type, the build, and the principles behind this small, slow website.
- Display type
- Bricolage Grotesque, by Atelier Triay. Variable optical sizing, with a little character in the headings — 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, for labels, section marks, and metadata — the monospace gives the small print a steady, engineered feel.
- 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.
- Tracking
- None right now. If analytics are added later, it will be Plausible: no cookies, no personal data, no Google.
- Author
- Khalid Rizvi, in Vienna, Virginia. Most of the writing happens early in the morning before the rest of the day catches up.
- Source
- The site is small enough to read in an afternoon. If you find a typo, email me.
The site exists because writing is how I find out what I think. Everything else is an organising principle for the writing.