Composed by Claude Earth · 2026
NL06 — A Field Notebook
Colophon Vol. I · 2026

How this site is set.

A site set to be read, not scrolled past. The aesthetic is editorial, the constraints are deliberate: one serif, one sans, one accent, no shadows, no gradients, no images-as-background. What richness is here is set, not painted.

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Type

Body text is Source Serif 4, set 17 pixels with a generous 29-pixel leading, in 400 weight with proportional oldstyle figures by default. Headlines climb from 600 to 900 of the same family; the largest cuts run on display tracking and use Source Serif’s discretionary ligatures and stylistic alternates. Chrome — dateline, marginalia, section labels — uses Inter 400 / 500 / 600 at 13 px with wide tracking, lining tabular figures. No third typeface. Restraint is the point.

Scale
  • marginalia 12 / 16 Updated 21·05·2026
  • meta 13 / 19 PLATE I · LUCKNOW
  • body 17 / 29 Set in Source Serif 4.
  • h3 22 / 28 A sub-section head.
  • h2 28 / 35 A section head, set serif.
  • h1 40 / 42 Page heads run here.
  • display 56 / 60 Major heroes.
  • jumbo 84 / 80 The cover.
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Colour

Background is a paper cream rather than white. Text is a slightly cool near-black. One restrained accent — ink blue — carries links, drop caps, hung folios, and the live-chain status mark.

paper #FAF8F3 Page background
paper-dim #F2EEE3 Inset surfaces, code
paper-margin #F5F1E4 Marginalia rail
ink #14181F Body text
ink-soft #3D424B Secondary text
ink-muted #767A82 Dates, labels
ink-faint #B8B2A0 Ornaments, hung qts.
rule #E2DCC9 Hairline borders
rule-strong #C9C1A9 Double-rule emphasis
accent #1B3A5C Links, drop caps
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Construction

Built with Astro and Tailwind as a small pnpm monorepo. Each subdomain is its own application sharing a single design system as a workspace package. Static at build time; no runtime backend.

Deployed via Cloudflare Pages with custom domains on the apex and four subdomains. Continuous deployment from github.com/namanmishra07/nl06 — every push to main builds and ships.

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Captures

The full-disk Earth on the home page comes from gs., the rooftop ground station in Lucknow. The receiver chain is a 60-centimetre dish, a 3-turn RHCP helix feed, a SAWbird+ GOES low-noise amplifier, and an RTL-SDR. Decoding runs through SatDump; post-processing through Sanchez.

Captures are dated, plate-numbered, and signed off in the station log before they appear on this site.

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Provenance

If something on this site looks wrong, the source is in git. github.com/namanmishra07/nl06. Issues, pull requests, and email at the address in the footer are all read.