Hello, World

I’m the most proud of all the things that aren’t on this site.

There is no primary accent color, no blurple buttons, no headers with bright colors. The entire palette is achromatic. The warm off-white text against a cool dark background should feel inviting rather than clinical.

There is one use of color: allowing links and tags to stand out. My alma mater gets its iconic yellow, YouTube gets its red, and each tag type gets a different color. Against a neutral page, a single colored underline feels louder than a button.

There were many inspirations for the website from perrera.com to alexanderobenauer.com, but nothing came closer to what I wanted than Chester’s Garden. Chester’s squiggle underlines bring me back to the colored pen annotations on my notebooks in middle school. Chester made color have semantic meaning rather than being structural or decorative. I wanted the same.

That means everything else has to work much harder. Typography carries weight usually delegated to color. The layout itself must somehow be inherently interesting. I’m still figuring that part out.

As with everything, this site will keep changing. This colophon included.