Colophon · Minuscule Ventures

DISPLAY

Big Shoulders Display 900 — a condensed American Gothic by Patric King for the Chicago Design System, used here for headlines, specimen titles, and the mast.

BODY

Bricolage Grotesque by Mathieu Triay — variable across weight, width, and optical size; it's both the prose face and the secondary display, allowing one family to do the work of three.

MONO

JetBrains Mono Variable — used here for marginalia, kicker labels, and code, not the body.

GENERATOR

Astro 5 — static-first; component islands when needed; zero JS shipped to this site by default.

STYLES

Tailwind v4 with a hand-rolled token system; one CSS file, no plugins.

CONTENT

MDX content collections (ventures, tools, writing). Frontmatter validated by Zod.

HOSTING

Cloudflare Pages, davidryal personal account.

SOURCE

github.com/akapug/mv — private; ask if you want a peek at how the boards are sawn.

What this site does not do

It does not call any large-language-model API. Every word here was placed by a person, often with an agent at the keyboard, but the output ships static.
It does not collect analytics beyond what Cloudflare's edge logs already record. No JavaScript trackers, no cookies, no consent banner.
It does not have a contact form. Real mailboxes are on the contact page.
It does not list rates or services. Those will appear here once the catalog earns them.

Conventions

Each venture has a specimen number assigned in the order it entered stewardship. Numbers do not reset.
Genus describes a kind of work; status describes its state. Live means actively running; Dormant means paused but recoverable; Archived means sealed.
The /now page is the source of truth for what I'm doing today.