COLOPHON

This site is drawn as a survey sheet, because mapmakers solved its hardest problem centuries ago. A chart has a convention for ground nobody has walked: it is marked unsurveyed, which says that no one looked without implying there is nothing there. Most of this site is that distinction.

Sheet titles

Encode Sans Condensed, a condensed grotesque in the manner of map lettering, where names must fit a coastline without crowding it. Used for sheet titles and column heads.

Prose

Encode Sans Semi Condensed, the same family opened up for running text, so the page has one voice at two widths.

Figures

Azeret Mono, a technical monospace with tabular figures, so a column of counts aligns digit under digit and a number cannot be misread against its neighbour. Used for every table and count.

Harvester

Rust, with SQLite for bookkeeping and a single writer actor. Files are mirrored to local storage; the database never leaves the machine.

Site

React and Vite, built to static files. No server. No cookies of its own, and none at all unless you accept the analytics notice.

Measurement

Two counters, and they are the only scripts on the site that are not the site itself. Cloudflare Web Analytics counts page views and sets no cookie, ever. Google Analytics starts with storage consent denied and asks you once. Decline, and it stays as it was: cookieless pings carrying the page you asked for, where you came from and roughly where you are, with no identifier that would recognise you on a second visit. Accept, and it sets its own cookies so a return visit is known to be a return. Advertising consent is never requested either way, because there is no advertising here to consent to. What each one sends, and what that leaves you able to object to, is set out on the privacy page.

Motion

Almost none. Figures do not count up, nothing settles, and no number is ever drawn at a value it does not hold, even for a frame. The only animation that repeats marks a download actually in flight. Everything else is a single short transition, and all of it stops when your system asks for reduced motion.

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