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.
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 →The typefaces.
- Nebula Sans
- Reading, headings and interface text. Licence
- Fira Sans Condensed
- The magazine voice — lesson mastheads and prediction panels. Licence
- JetBrains Mono
- Code, listings and anything the machine said. Licence
- Oxanium Extra Bold
- Project names and the 198x suffix in the outlined wordmarks. Licence
- Caveat Bold
- The handwritten Like It’s bridge in the Code logo. Licence
Reading fonts are served from this domain. The logo uses vector outlines made from the original font glyphs; it does not need an extra font download.
The marks that tell the homepage's sections apart are from Phosphor Icons (regular weight, version 2.1.1), copied unmodified and served from this domain for the same reason. MIT licence.
What builds it.
- Astro
- Builds the site.
- Pagefind
- Searches it, without a server.
- Vale
- Reads the prose back and argues with it.
- Asm198x
- Assembles the curriculum’s machine-code programs.
- Build198x
- Converts assets, tokenises BASIC and prepares disk and tape images.
- 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.