Colophon & Style Guide
How this place was set.
A colophon is the note at the back of a book that tells you what type it was set in, on what paper, by whom. This one doubles as a style guide, so that if I ever hand the site off to a designer or a VA they have somewhere honest to start. If you're a reader who wandered in and just wanted a look at the fonts — hi, welcome, here you go.
Reference
Literary. Collectible. The kind of book spines you'd keep as trophies even unread. Warm and unhurried — the kind of place that assumes you'll stay a while, not scroll past. Autumnal. In-between, on purpose — because the work is about the in-between too. A little bit Wonderland: falling somewhere strange and finding your way back closer to yourself.
Palette
A dark forest green anchors the whole thing. Warm supporting notes in butter yellow, beige, and (only around the newsletter) baby pink. Deeper accents in burgundy, dark brown, and a muted pistachio when something needs to sit up straight. Black and warm white hold the edges. Everything else on the page is one of these.
Type
Three faces, deliberately mixed. Not minimal — maximalist in the way an old library is maximalist. Each one has a job.
Display Serif
A small, warm corner of the internet.
A curvy, epic, literary serif. Reserved for the parts of the page that want to feel like the first line of a novel — page titles, section headings, and the wordmark. Used sparingly, so it keeps its weight.
Body & Navigation
The house speaks in this voice, mostly — long letters, short notes, and everything in between.
A clean, literature-coded sans. Does the everyday work — body copy, navigation, eyebrows, small caps. The quiet scaffolding that lets the display face be dramatic.
Handwritten Accent
— with love, mostly —
A human hand where a machine would feel wrong. Highlights, asides, dated notes, the signature line at the foot of a piece. Used sparingly, on purpose.
Ornament & Texture
Section dividers borrow from a small Alice-in-Wonderland asset set — a lace border with rosette accents, a hand-drawn scroll, the occasional teapot. Under everything, a very quiet paper grain so nothing sits on glass.
Set in the year of the rebuild.