Colophon

In books of yore, a colophon was the note at the very end where the maker recorded how the thing was made: the types, the paper, the hands that set it. This is that note.

The types

The text is set in Alegreya, a calligraphic humanist serif made for long reading. Headings, the navigation, and the small capitals are lettered in Cinzel Decorative, after Roman inscriptional capitals with a few added flourishes. The masthead wears Uncial Antiqua, the rounded uncial hand of early-medieval scribes, and the great illuminated initial that opens each essay is the blackletter UnifrakturMaguntia. Every one of these is an open-source face, released under the SIL Open Font License.

You'll find two buttons in the lower corner: one turns the site between light and dark, and the other sets the whole page in OpenDyslexic.

The making

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The rights

The writing here is offered under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. You are welcome to share, quote, translate, and build upon it, provided you credit the source, do not sell it, and keep your own version as freely open as this one.

Deo gratias.