Hello, world

This is the first post. It is set in a serif face — Charter on Apple devices, Source Serif 4 elsewhere — because essays read better when the letters have a little warmth.

The measure is narrow on purpose.1 Patrick Collison’s blog feels like this, and so does Devon Zuegel’s. The content carries the page; there is no header image, no sidebar, no logo. If it reads well, that is the whole design.

Why mixed fonts

Different posts ask for different voices. An essay wants serif. A technical note — code blocks, API names, anything where the text is itself a kind of machine — often wants sans. So each post declares font: serif or font: sans in its frontmatter, and the page picks the face. One blog, two registers.

What will live here

Notes on things I’m building, papers I’m reading, and ideas I’m turning over. Some will be short. Some will be long. None will try very hard.

Footnotes

  1. About 640 pixels — roughly 65 to 70 characters per line — the classic typographic measure for comfortable reading. ↩