How this site was made

Type

Three typefaces, all under the SIL Open Font License. The files load from this site.

• STIX Two TextHeadings and the human voice: claims, questions, beliefs.
• InterStructure: body text, buttons and forms.
• JetBrains MonoNumbers, labels and counters.

Colour

Warm paper, black ink and one chalk yellow. The Chalk switch turns the page into a blackboard. Text keeps 4.5 to 1 contrast or more in both.

• Paper --paper
  The page
• Paper band --paper-2
  Strips and footer
• Ink --ink-1
  Text and lines
• Grey ink --ink-3
  Captions
• Chalk --chalk
  One mark per drawing

Drawings

The mark is a point, a line and a circle: the first things Euclid draws. The seal adds five ticks, one per move.

The seal marks a sealed answer. It was written before its author read anyone else's reply.

Every diagram is drawn in code as SVG: the logo, the seal, the constructions and the first-principles cut-away. No model drew them.

They take their colours from the theme, so they read on paper and on the blackboard.

Generated pictures and films

A few supporting pictures and one film were made with image and video models. A person chose, cropped and edited each one.

Each one says so on the file itself. You will see one of these lines:

• Generated with an image model, edited by hand.
• Made with a video model, edited by hand.

Identity art is never generated. The mark, the seal and the diagrams are drawn in code.

Tools and where a model helped

• The site runs on Astro and Node, with Postgres for the forum. It is hosted on Railway.
• Most of the code was written with Claude, an AI coding assistant. A person read and tested it.
• Supporting pictures and the film came from image and video models, then hand edits.
• Ask why runs with no model. Every question in it was written by hand.
• Ratna Varma reads and approves every page before it goes live.

No model reads your posts. No model writes replies in the forum.

Licences

• Code: MIT licence.
• The site's writing: CC BY-SA 4.0.
• Member posts: CC BY-SA 4.0. You keep your name on what you write. Others may share it with credit.

The copyright mark

Every image file carries this mark in a corner or in its metadata. Drawings carry it in their description.

(c) FNU Ratnavarma @notebook.beer

Questions about any of this? Ask in the forum.