Colophon
A note on how this paper is set.
Every publication earns a colophon. Here is ours — the type, the colours, and the machinery behind The Curated Daily.
Typography
- Headlines & body
- Source Serif 4 — by Frank Grießhammer at Adobe. Used at sizes between 16 and 78px. We favour the regular and semibold weights; italics earn their place.
- Interface & meta
- Inter — by Rasmus Andersson. Set tight in small caps for kickers and section labels.
- Code & tabular
- JetBrains Mono. Set on a dark slab when it appears in articles, like a print sample.
Palette
- Paper
#f6f3ec- Paper, deep
#ece7dc- Ink
#1c1917- Ink, soft
#44403c- Rule
#d6d3d1- Accent
#9b2a1f— a brick red, used sparingly for kickers and the rare hover.
The press
- Editor
- D. and a small bench of correspondents.
- Filed from
- A kitchen table in Europe.
- Set with
- Next.js 16 on the App Router, Tailwind CSS 4, MDX with
react-markdownandremark-gfm. - Hosted on
- A small VPS, served behind Caddy with automatic TLS.
- Pipeline
- A handwritten Python pipeline picks the day's reading, then the editors decide what runs.
- Source
- Open in spirit — if you spot a bug, a typo, or a better word, please write in.
Type is set on screens of all sizes, but it is sized for reading. The body column is kept under 72 characters wherever we can. Section heads breathe. Photographs run with credits. Footnotes earn the name.
If you spot something we’ve set badly — kerning, a widow, a stray quote — please write in. We’ll fix it.