Colophon

Colophon

How this site is made.

Typography

  • Playfair Display

    Display

    High-contrast serif for titles.

    The quiet hours.

  • Crimson Pro

    Body & voice

    Old-style serif for reading; its italic carries the voice.

    Light arrives on a delay,

    and changes nothing for hours.

  • Bricolage Grotesque

    Chrome & labels

    Grotesque for navigation, labels, and captions.

    WORK · JOURNAL · ABOUT

Built with

Astro
Zero-JavaScript public pages.
Supabase
Postgres database and authentication.
Drizzle
Type-safe data access.
Cloudflare R2
Image delivery, zero egress.
Sharp
Watermark applied at upload.
Vercel
Hosting and scheduled publishing.

On the making

This site is made slowly, with a preference for restraint over abundance. Every photograph is watermarked at upload — a quiet signature in the corner, never across the frame. The public pages ship no JavaScript; images are delivered from Cloudflare R2 so the bytes never slow the reading. The work changes; the frame holds still.

Credits

Photographs and words © Khalfan AlShamsi. Set in Playfair Display, Crimson Pro, and Bricolage Grotesque. Built and maintained by the photographer.