Colophon

Thus
we
end. τέλος

Made with care, for reading.
For the afternoon that is still, somewhere,
a Greek afternoon.

Name

Nous · Νοῦς — the mind that sees.

Edition

I · Of Light & Stone · MMXXVI

Typefaces

Cormorant Garamond, EB Garamond, GFS Didot, Cormorant SC, JetBrains Mono. All open-source, via Google Fonts.

CJK

Noto Serif SC, Noto Sans SC. Density matched to the Latin faces.

Palette

Eight colors, drawn from limestone, sea, olive, and pot. Never pure black; never the void-white of the screen.

Intended for

Obsidian, Typora, and the small websites where paragraphs still happen. Also: any place a theme can be loved.

Not intended for

Dashboards, alerts, anything urgent. Nous does not shout.

With gratitude to

Plato, Aristotle, and Heraclitus; Bringhurst and Tschichold; every typesetter who ever chose a hairline rule over an icon. And to the reader, for staying.