Colophon
A publication about how files are made ought to say how its own pages are made.
Type
Headlines are set in Fraunces, a variable serif with the optical-size and “wonk” axes left on. Body text is IBM Plex Sans; labels, figures and tables are IBM Plex Mono. All three are open-licensed and served from this domain as WOFF2 — no font is fetched from a third party, so no third party learns who reads what here.
Pages
Pages are static HTML with one stylesheet and no JavaScript at all: no analytics, no tag manager, no consent wall, nothing to block. Navigation is a flat row of sections because a list of articles frozen into a menu goes stale the week after it is built. The table of contents on an article is a plain disclosure element.
Pictures
Photographs come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences, and the photographer and licence are printed under every one. Where no honest photograph exists — a comparison of three codecs is not a thing you can point a camera at — we draw a diagram ourselves and say so in the caption. We do not generate images that pretend to be photographs.
Colour and measure
The palette is taken from the mark this domain carried in 2003: a burnt orange on warm paper, with a slate second voice. Body text runs to a fixed measure so line length stays readable, and the leaf sits on a darker board so the page has an edge.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, we would rather know: contact. Corrections are made in place and noted where they change the meaning.