Colophon
This is the type, the color, the section arc, and a few details that exist mostly because I wanted them. I also use this page to check my work.
Type
The body is set in Freight Text Pro, a serif from Joshua Darden Studio. The italics have personality, the figures are old-style — numbers that read like letters rather than glyphs — and it stays legible at body sizes without going generic at display sizes.
UI elements — eyebrows, meta, button labels — drop into SF Pro. Code is set in SF Mono.
Most "people problems" are really problems of how work is grouped, how authority moves, and whether the team actually exists in any structural sense or is just a recurring calendar invite.
Hidden Patterns
FIVE THINGS · APR 6, 2026 · 7 MIN READ
2006 · 2026 · 1,022
Color
The accent is a coral red, #FF3252. The coral is pretty close to the original Undercurrent pink, which I loved.
Radar runs in dark mode with a neon green, #00ff88, that only shows up there.
The book's color arc
Seven sections, seven colors. The arc starts near-black for Start & End, runs through the coral of Foundations, and resolves at violet for Space. The same arc shows up in the footer gradient. When you visit a chapter, the section's color appears in the chapter buttons and the section nav.
Components
Small details
Moonphase
A Hodinkee-style complication in the top-right of the header. Two layered SVGs — a blue disc with two moons that rotates based on the day of the lunar cycle, and a white frame with a curved cutout that masks the disc. It updates on page load. The one above is live.
Cyclist
That's me. The drawing's been with me for a long time.
Radar
Daily observations on organization design.
Radar
Posts in Radar run in dark mode — black background, white text, neon green accents. The header has an animated green dot that sweeps across with occasional “blip” effects. A small gimmick, but I like it.
Built with
Ghost 6.x with a custom theme. Source on GitHub.
Cloudflare Workers handle webhooks, the contact form, and retailer-link tracking. Comments via Ghost's native comments. Hosting on Ghost(Pro).
Type from Joshua Darden Studio via Adobe Fonts.
If something on this page is broken, it's probably my fault — tell me.