# Colophon

- URL: https://aip.treeso.net/articles/colophon/
- Published: 2026-08-16
- Author: Michal Frdlik

> How this site is built, and the one thing about it that is not a stylistic choice.

This site is [Zola](https://www.getzola.org/) — a static site generator that is
a single Rust binary with no runtime, no plugin ecosystem and no dependency
tree. There is nothing to install, nothing to keep patched, and a checkout in
five years still builds. For a site whose entire job is to serve a few articles
about an operating system, that is the correct amount of machinery.

It is served from Cloudflare, built from a pinned Zola binary that the build
script downloads itself rather than one the platform provides.

## The palette is not a stylistic choice

The colours are **Bonfire**, and they are not chosen to suit a website. They
are transcribed from `docs/UTOPIA-VISUAL.md` in the Thylacine tree, where they
are committed scripture governing the shell, the editor and the terminal
configuration the system ships.

The background is `#0e0c0c`: near-black with a barely perceptible red cast — the
way darkness looks when a fire a few hundred metres away cannot illuminate
anything and only shifts the colour temperature of the air. The prompt glyph
`⊢` in `#e07840` belongs to that air rather than contrasting against it.

The syntax highlighting matters more than it looks. Zola 0.22 replaced its
highlighter with [giallo](https://github.com/getzola/giallo), which consumes
VSCode-format themes, so the seven Bonfire syntax hues are a theme file rather
than an approximation in CSS:

| Role | Hex | Used for |
|---|---|---|
| `slate` | `#8a9ac8` | keywords, control flow, storage |
| `sage` | `#8ab8a8` | types, structs, imports |
| `sand` | `#c8a882` | members, attributes, fields |
| `moss` | `#b8d098` | constants, macros, enum variants |
| `ash` | `#b07060` | function names, identifiers |
| `dusk` | `#a898c8` | string literals |
| `smoke` | `#7a8a7a` | comments |

A code block on this page is therefore rendered in the same values as the same
code in the system's own editor. Not similar values — the same ones, checked at
build time out of one file.

## What is deliberately absent

No webfonts, no analytics, no third-party requests of any kind. The recommended
Utopia typeface is PragmataPro, which is commercial and not bundled, so the
stylesheet asks for it and falls through to a system monospace for everyone who
does not own it. Nothing here phones home, and the page works with JavaScript
disabled because there is none.