Colophon · Swatantra Yadav

Colophon

How this site is built, and what it deliberately does not do.

Framework: Vite with a fully static architecture. No server, no database, no content management system. The whole site is HTML, CSS, one JavaScript bundle and a directory of images.
Type: Bodoni Moda for display, Newsreader for reading copy, JetBrains Mono for labels and tables, and UnifrakturMaguntia for the masthead blackletter. Self-hosted at build time, so no third party is asked for a font on page load.
Motion: GSAP for hardware-accelerated transitions and interactive drawers. Reveals use IntersectionObserver rather than scroll position, so nothing can end up stuck out of view if a measurement goes stale.
Reduced motion: Every animation has a composed end state rather than an absence. With prefers-reduced-motion set, smooth transitions snap instead of tweening, the marquee becomes a static row, and interactive decks lay out unstacked so every quote is readable without hovering.
Images: Inked and textured plates rendered with halftone grain and multiplied blend modes to evoke technical blueprints and letterpress printings. Assets are local, compressed, and self-hosted with modern WebP formatting.
Dates: No year appears as a literal anywhere in the source. Anything year-shaped is computed when the site is built, so nothing here needs an annual edit.
Hosting: Static export with zero external runtime dependencies, served with immutable asset caching and pre-compressed static assets.

Built October 2026. Swatantra Yadav, Ayodhya, India.