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chroma

chroma makes poems, pictures, & programs in Brooklyn, NY where it’s and clear.

changelog

what i’ve been working on lately

  • linked only claireviolet’s name in about-page photo credits and added a yellow or violet wavy underline on hover and keyboard focus.

  • simplified the changelog into text notes grouped by day and made updating it part of every pull request.

  • made room for poems, photography, apps, and experiments on the projects page.

  • shortened the reading measure, refined headings and marginalia, and made more room for enlarged text.

  • lightened images and the posts archive, reduced layout shifts on phones, and fixed youtube embeds.

  • refined the typography, blockquotes, and little arrows throughout the site.

  • simplified about, brought back email subscriptions in the footer, and added a small heart at the end of articles.

  • turned the homepage into a notebook: writing, pictures, reading, watching, and notes in the margins.

  • brought in poems from chromatographics, with their own colors and typography.

  • added brooklyn time and weather, and a little motion when switching between mb and chroma.

  • made shelves for books and movies, with ratings and reviews.

  • gave pages a shared set of type, spacing, and color rules.

  • rebuilt the site with astro and a new editor, bringing over the writing, photographs, feeds, and old addresses.

  • added a picture gallery, full-size photo viewing, and a simpler contact form.

  • Added Letterboxd to watching

  • Near-live clock for now page

  • Updated footer links

  • Added newsletter subscription to footer

  • Fontawesome buttons

  • Smooth scrolling

  • Recursive font stack

  • Better mark styling

  • End marks

  • Silly header animation

  • Simplifies vertical rhythm code

  • Hanging punctuation

  • Better red for blockquotes

  • Red blockquotes?

  • Blockquote styling

  • <address> shouldn’t be italic

  • Improve toggle animation

  • Nav bar icons

  • Highlighted text background color

  • Navbar and footer dividers

  • Decrease prominence of time on posts

  • Smaller, better aligned post dates

  • Dark mode

  • Added toggle for dot grid

  • Added dot grid

  • Updates font to Halyard

  • Padding on the body to account for list gutters

  • Hanging bullets

  • Padding for the body (especially for mobile)

  • Images have a maximum width of 100%