Typography
EB Garamond — designed by Georg Duffner, an open revival of Claude Garamont’s sixteenth-century roman and Robert Granjon’s italic. Used for display, the wordmark, and editorial italics.
Lora — designed by Cyreal, a contemporary serif tuned for reading on screen. Used for body type.
IBM Plex Mono — designed by Mike Abbink and Bold Monday for IBM. Used for labels, metadata, and code. Released under the SIL Open Font License.
Photography & illustration
Where photography appears, it is real, attributed, and licensed. No stock. The bristlecone silhouettes and the rings cross-section illustrations are drawn in-house from reference photography of Pinus longaeva in the Inyo National Forest. We’ll list the photographers here when their work appears.
Build
Astro for the static rendering. Tailwind, used as a utility layer over our design tokens. Self-hosted fonts via @fontsource. MDX for long-form content. Vercel for hosting. Plausible (or no analytics at all on certain pages) for the bare measurement we keep.
Materials we don’t use
No third-party trackers. No retargeting pixels. No chat widgets. No popups. No A/B testing on our own readers. No cookie banner because there is nothing to consent to. The site is, as nearly as we can make it, the same as a printed booklet you found on a friend’s coffee table.
Source & credits
The brand work was done by the founding team. The visual system reference lives in design-system.html and brand-book-a4.pdf. The site source is private at the moment; we will open the templates if it ever feels useful to others.
Made slowly, on purpose. Methuselah Grove, 2026.