How this is made

Type

Display set in Newsreader by Production Type — a variable serif designed at the Font Bureau as an editorial reading face, with a large optical-size axis that goes from intimate to billboard. Body in Source Serif 4, Adobe's open-source revival of the form, set at its text optical size for long-form reading. Editorial meta — folios, status pills, dates — in JetBrains Mono, kept consistent across all three sister sites.

Stack

Built with Astro 5; static HTML deployed on Netlify; written in Markdown with a small remark pipeline for figures and heading dedup. No client JavaScript by default.

Editorial

Calendar and review workflow run through deskwork, an open-source Claude Code plugin. The calendar lives in a markdown table at docs/editorial-calendar-writingcontrol.md; the review journal at .deskwork/review-journal/; both are part of the repo's history.

Family

Sister to audiocontrol.org (open source audio tools) and editorialcontrol.org (building with AI agents). Each takes a deliberately different aesthetic position; this one's the one that sits in daylight.

Rights

Prose content — essays, project pages, scrapbook material — is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. You're free to share verbatim with attribution; commercial use, derivatives, translations, or excerpts beyond fair-use quotation require permission.

Site code (layouts, components, remark plugins, build configuration) is licensed under the MIT License.

© 2026 Orion Letizi.

Source

The site source is on GitHub.