How this site is made.
Drawn, not photographed. Every figure on these pages is a line drawing made for the place it sits, and the whole site is written by hand.
Type
Cormorant Garamond
Headlines and figures. A display Garamond by Christian Thalmann, set light and large, with numerals that stand upright wherever they count something.
Jost
Text and labels, by Owen Earl at indestructible type. A geometric sans with the proportions of the 1920s, set small and tracked wide for labels.
Both are released under the SIL Open Font License and served from this site, so no font service sees your visit.
Colour
- Ink#14161A
- Ivory#F4F0E8
- Bronze#B8976A
- Bronze, for text#7A5F3A
Three colours and nothing else. At night the page turns to ink and the bronze lifts a step, so it still reads.
Paper
A faint vellum grain lies over every page, so no surface reads as flat screen colour. It is a single small image, repeated.
The tower
The building on the home page is drawn live in your browser, level by level, from a few hundred lines of code. Its light follows the time of day in Miami, and after dark a few rooms are lit. It is an illustration, not a real project.
The name
Centamont joins centum, a hundred, and mont, a mountain: the stonecutter's hundredth blow, which splits the stone only because of the ninety-nine before it.
Nothing else
No trackers, no advertising cookies and no outside requests. The site is plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript, so it loads quickly and reads well with a screen reader, in either light.