Colofon.

The design idea of this site and some css is, for the most part, shamelessly borrowed from https://manuelmoreale.com.

It captures exactly what I love: a minimalist layout paired with beautiful typography—finessed right down to the pixel.

I did swap the typefaces, though—from Iowan to Minion Pro. In a few spots you’ll also see iA Writer Mono making an appearance. iA Writer is, quite possibly, the best app I know.

I’ve made only the tiniest adjustments beyond that. I prefer lowercase numerals and angled quotation marks.

Angled quotes—known in Swedish as »gåsögon« [eng. goose eyes]—are a silly little obsession I stumbled upon just before we launched the magazine Internetworld. Somehow I managed to convince the editorial team to use them in print. But because QuarkXPress back then lacked any sensible way to angle them correctly, it became my job to proofread and manually replace every single quotation mark in the magazine. Unsurprisingly, after I left, the staff quietly switched to something easier to edit.

The publishing system behind this site is my own handiwork: a simple editor that stores Markdown-formatted text in a database. Of course, all of this could have been solved far more easily with an off-the-shelf platform. Building things myself is, unfortunately, a bit of a trademark of mine. And I don’t mean that in a proud way—quite the opposite. My life would be simpler if I were better at asking others for help.

Finally, colophon is such a delightful word. I first came across it in a book about book design (a bit meta, I know) back when I’d decided to design my own finished manuscript. And really—who doesn’t love the word colophon? Also, it sounds like a whimsical creature straight out of Alice in Wonderland.

»Mind the colophon!« cried the Cheshire Cat, grinning from a branch. »Best not to startle it, or it might rearrange the punctuation!«