This is the colophon. The convention belongs to book printing — a back-page note on type and paper, signed with modesty. The web equivalent serves the same purpose.
The site is set in Source Serif 4, a transitional serif from Adobe in the lineage of Charter. The whole hierarchy — the hero, the headlines, the reading body — is carried by one serif family through weight and scale alone, with no separate display face. Charter is the named first choice and leads the font stack for any reader who has it; Source Serif 4 is the web-faithful stand-in, because Charter ships no medium weight on the web and the hierarchy depends on a real distinction between a 400 body and a 500 headline. Metadata — dates, section markers, the nav, the footer — is set in a quiet system sans stack, so the chrome stays utilitarian and adds no extra font payload. Monospace is reserved for code. The serif carries the authority, the system sans carries the labels, and nothing else is introduced.
The canvas is a warm parchment, #f5f4ed, never pure white. The one accent is ink blue,
#1b365d, and there is no second chromatic colour anywhere — hierarchy is built from weight,
scale, and warm grey instead. The accent appears only where it carries meaning: the bar marking a list row,
the dot opening a section, link underlines, the italic in the wordmark, inline emphasis inside a post. The
neutrals are all warm-toned, a faint yellow-brown undertone rather than a cool grey, so the page reads as
composed rather than assembled. Pure white and pure black are both banned.
The aesthetic anchor is Kami — tw93/kami, a design system whose one line is “good content deserves good paper.” Warm parchment, a single ink-blue accent, serif carrying the hierarchy, no hard shadows and no cool greys. Kami is a constraint system built for printed matter; this garden applies it to a continuous-scroll reading site, in Kami's editorial mode rather than its structured one — the brand colour lives only in text, containers stay minimal, and the prose is left to carry itself. The reading contract is dwell, not declaration.
The companion discipline is Impeccable: the refusal layer that keeps the paper from drifting. It is less a second style than a review habit — no generic cards, no extra accent, no accidental app chrome, no dark-mode identity pretending to be Kami. Kami defines the surface; Impeccable keeps it honest.
A later process influence is Guizang PPT Skill, specifically its habit of turning layout drift into executable checks. Only that validator discipline transfers. The slide aesthetics do not: no Swiss palette, no WebGL runtime, no deck layouts, no Inter/Helvetica system. Kami remains the visual contract.
Kami is the third of a trilogy by tw93 — Kaku writes code, Waza drills habits, Kami delivers documents. Adopting it here was a deliberate swap: the site previously ran a Müller-Brockmann editorial-Swiss system, all grotesk type and neutral grey, and it was replaced wholesale rather than blended, because a design language is a single decision and a half-kept one reads as neither. What did not transfer from Kami was its template set — Kami ships a landing page and document templates, not a feed of three hundred essays — so the archive, topics, and search pages are composed from Kami's documented primitives instead: the dotted eyebrow, the hairline rule, the value-anchor list.
The page is built with Astro and deployed on Vercel, with source posts living in a private repository and synced via a small script. Fonts load from Google Fonts with a print-media swap so they do not block first paint. The homepage follows Kami's landing-page layout; post pages follow its long-doc layout; the per-post social cards are generated at build time with satori. The full design document — the constraint set written as refuse-rules — lives at DESIGN.md in the repository for anyone who wants the longer version.