Colophon
What this is
made of.
A colophon is the note at the back of a book saying how it was set and who set it. This one covers the people, the type and the tools. How the facts are established is a separate question, answered on Sources & Standards.
People
Everyone who has contributed.
- Steve Hillstevehill1981
One, so far. The list is generated from the commit history across every repository in the organisation, so it grows on its own — and a short list is a reason to add yourself, not a reason not to.
How to join them →Type
Three faces, all libre.
- Literata
- Reading — headings and long prose. Licence
- JetBrains Mono
- Code, listings and anything the machine said. Licence
- Nebula Sans
- Interface text. Licence
Served from this domain, not a font CDN — the pages should render the same in ten years as they do now, and a third party is one more thing that can stop existing.
Tools
What builds it.
- Astro
- Builds the site.
- Pagefind
- Searches it, without a server.
- Vale
- Reads the prose back and argues with it.
- Asm198x
- Assembles every unit program, on all four machines.
- Build198x
- Converts the art and masters the disks.
- Emu198x
- Runs the programs and takes the screenshots.
- Play198x
- Decodes retro image formats at build time.
- Claude
- Drafting help, on the terms set out in the standards.
Four of these the project wrote itself, because the curriculum needed an assembler, a converter and an emulator it could trust to behave the same way twice.