A personal design language built on archival paper, a single rust accent, literary serif, and mono metadata. Restraint as a feature — every output should read like a well-typeset spec sheet, not a SaaS page.
A warm cream canvas anchors everything. A single rust accent does all the emotional work. Every neutral carries a yellow-brown undertone — never a cool blue-gray (R ≥ G > B).
Fraunces carries headlines with literary confidence — its italics double as accent and replace bold entirely. Inter handles reading. JetBrains Mono labels everything technical. Serif weight stays at 500; emphasis is italic, never synthetic bold.
The system reads like a well-typeset technical manual. Read it with ls, cat, and grep — restraint, rhythm, and a live profile included.
Every container reads like it was pulled from a technical drawing — hairline borders, accent-tipped corners, mono index numbers. Depth, when needed, is a whisper shadow on hover, never a hard drop shadow.
grep "GDPR" ~/legal/Search contracts and compliance docs by meaning. Find the clause without knowing the exact wording.
cat ~/profile.mdA virtual file synthesized on read from every memory in the container. Not stored — regenerated on demand.
ls ~/research/Search returns meanings, not substrings. Ask for "my pdf" — get the invoice you saved.
Round bullets read juvenile next to serif copy — a short accent bar reads editorial. Numeric tables align on tabular figures with a single hairline per row.
| Metric | Before | After | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tokens per task | 1,212,380 | 203,427 | −83% |
| Tool calls | 116 | 42 | −64% |
| Correctness | 16 / 20 | 18 / 20 | +12% |
Warm cream canvas with a radial dot-grid. Depth from tinted layers, never elevation.
cost: reads as generic SaaSRust does all the emotional work and stays under five percent of the surface. More is ornament.
cost: feels like a brand slapped onEvery gray has a yellow-brown undertone. R ≥ G > B. Four ink levels, no fifth.
cost: one cool gray cheapens it allLabels, indices, system states, version strings — all monospace. The serif speaks; mono annotates.
cost: loses the spec-sheet feelSerif italic in the accent color replaces bold. Weight locked at 500, never synthetic 700.
cost: muddy, undercuts the tone1px borders and corner ticks. Depth is a ring or whisper shadow — never a hard drop shadow.
cost: hard shadows read digitalSections, cards, principles all carry mono indices. Numbering implies authorship and intent.
cost: work feels accidentalEditorial or structured, never both. When unsure, default to editorial.
cost: over-packaging