A note on the making.The typography, palette, and engineering behind this site.

This site is designed as a small research fieldbook: part academic archive, part mission map, and part personal digital scrapbook. The playful layer helps visitors make connections; the underlying publications and project facts remain unchanged.

Typography

Display

A characterful system stack led by Trebuchet MS and rounded UI faces. It gives game labels and section titles personality without adding a font download.

Body

Aptos or Segoe UI on Windows, with Helvetica and Arial fallbacks. Long-form research pages add Georgia for a warmer editorial reading rhythm.

Metadata

Cascadia Mono, SFMono, or Consolas — reserved for mission labels, dates, citations, coordinates, and technical detail.

Palette

Ground

#E8EFE8 — a pale fieldbook ground. Paper surfaces use #FFF9ED; the night-lab theme begins at#101C29 rather than pure black.

Surface

Paper, graph sheet, mission note, map board, archive row, and field card — each surface has a specific information role.

Accent

Coral marks projects and actions; teal marks research systems; lavender marks the archive; yellow marks active quests. The colors carry meaning rather than acting as confetti.

Status

Semantic colors distinguish published, in-progress, and error states while retaining sufficient contrast in both themes.

Engineering

Built with Next.js 16 (App Router) and React 19. Server-rendered content remains readable before JavaScript; interactivity stays local to the research map, field companion, theme, navigation, and contact form. Motion uses transforms and opacity, with a single slow map signal and full prefers-reduced-motionsupport.

Source

The source is organized around a small set of semantic tokens and reusable UI primitives. The code is intended to remain readable rather than clever.