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How this site was made

Three families, all via Google Fonts: Schibsted Grotesk for display and interface (500 through 800), Source Serif 4 for reading text, with optical sizing and old-style figures, and Geist Mono for data (dates, the wordmark, labels, code). The OR monogram is cut from Schibsted Grotesk 800. Geist Mono is the one typeface shared with the icnt.cloud lab. The canvas is a warm linen at #EDE9E0; the brass at #C5A059 is kept to rules, marks, and accents. Background depth is a single soft brass radial gradient at seven percent opacity, applied to the body, with no grain layer. Built with Astro, deployed on Vercel. A little vanilla JavaScript runs the /visuals lightbox and this page’s easter eggs; everything else here is static HTML and CSS. Photography is mine, shown unfiltered, matted in off-white frames.

Specimen

Page titles · Schibsted Grotesk 800

Owen Renn

Section headings · Schibsted Grotesk 700

Translating the complex

Body · Source Serif 4 400

The same impulse keeps showing up: find the thread, follow it back, connect what looks unrelated.

Taglines · Schibsted Grotesk 600

Fuji and a phone. Paying attention.

Mono · Geist Mono 500

Owen Renn · published 1998

Influences

I took the deep sage and brass from color in light: Thief’s neon on pavement, Blade Runner’s amber and shadow, the warm contrast of ’70s film stock. The linen surface and matted frames treat a photograph as an object, not a stream.