Colophon
On the making of this site.
A modest colophon is a courtesy. The Institute is pleased to record below the typefaces, tools, and conventions employed in the construction and continued maintenance of this website.
I Typography
The principal text of the Institute is set in Source Serif 4, designed by Frank Grießhammer for Adobe and released to the public under the SIL Open Font License. Source Serif is a transitional serif with restrained authority, well suited to the Institute's tone. The family is used here in Regular and Semibold weights.
Subsidiary text — eyebrows, captions, navigation, the donor roll — is set in Inter, designed by Rasmus Andersson and likewise offered under the SIL OFL. Inter is used principally in Regular and Semibold; small caps and tabular figures are employed where the material warrants.
Both faces are self-hosted via the Fontsource project. No connection to a third-party font CDN is established when this page is loaded.
II Construction
The site is a static document, hand-built using Astro with strict TypeScript and a plain CSS token system. There is no framework beyond Astro itself; no client-side runtime is shipped except where a small piece of behavior (the fellowship form, the state lookup, forthcoming pages of comparable scope) plainly requires it.
Images are processed at build time via Astro's image pipeline. WebP is the principal delivery format; a small number of decorative photographs receive the Institute's standard editorial grayscale treatment by way of CSS filter.
The whole is hosted on GitHub Pages and served through Cloudflare's public DNS. Source code is available on request.
III Editorial Conventions
The Institute follows a small number of standing editorial conventions, set out in full on the style guide page. Briefly: The Institute takes a singular verb; numerals under one hundred are spelled out; the Oxford comma is used without exception; em dashes are flanked by hairline spaces.
Citation style follows that of the Quarterly Review of Civic Onomastics, a publication for which the Institute holds no formal affiliation but whose conventions it has found congenial.
IV Accessibility
The site is built to meet, at minimum, WCAG 2.1 AA. All images carry descriptive alternative text; navigation is keyboard-traversable; a skip link is provided at the head of every page. The Institute welcomes correspondence on accessibility matters, which may be addressed to the general office with the subject line "Accessibility."
Reduced-motion preferences are respected throughout. Color contrast ratios were last audited in the third quarter of fiscal 2025.
V Privacy
The Institute does not employ analytics scripts, third-party trackers, or advertising tags of any description. Page visits are not logged at the application layer; we have no record of which pages you have read.
Form submissions on the fellowship and contact pages produce a client-side acknowledgment only; no data is transmitted to the Institute's servers without your further action.
VI Acknowledgments
The Institute records its thanks to the open-source maintainers of the tools above; to the photographers of the editorial bands, whose images are licensed via the Unsplash Trust; and to the founding members, whose patient correspondence over the past five fiscal years has provided the material from which this site was assembled.