Well-made books end with a page explaining how they were made: the typeface, the paper, the printer. This is that page.
Typography
The headings are set in Fraunces, a variable serif with more character than a system font is usually allowed — its softness and "wonk" axes give it the feel of an old printing press without turning it into a costume. The body text is Source Serif 4, also variable, chosen for an unglamorous and honest reason: you can read long paragraphs without noticing it. Both come from Google Fonts and are served by the site itself, without asking anyone else for anything.
Lines run to around seventy characters, the line spacing is generous, and the small, widely spaced capitals you see in the labels are my way of borrowing from the folios and half-title pages of books I love.
Materials
Under the paper is a modern printing press: the site is built with Next.js and Tailwind CSS, the essays are MDX files — plain text with superpowers — versioned in git, and everything is published on Vercel. Each post is a file I can read in any editor twenty years from now, which is my practical definition of durability. The content doesn't live in a database: it's written in the repository, by hand or through a commit, a process closer to sending a manuscript to the printer than to managing content.
The site is available in Spanish and English, and initially follows your browser's language preference. You can also choose the language yourself.
Philosophy
In my head, the design direction has a name: paper and ink, quiet luxury. A cream background instead of white, nearly black ink instead of black, a single burgundy accent used as sparingly as possible. At night, the site doesn't invert: it dims into a warm nighttime parchment with a palette of its own, because reading at night is a different activity and deserves different colors.
The house rules are more about taking away than adding: no shadows, no gradients, no fake paper textures — paper is suggested through color and space, without dressing up. Almost all the difficult decisions on this site were decisions not to add something.
If you build websites and any of this is useful, steal it with affection. That's how I learned.