Preview card 02

Typography — the voice, the interface, the apparatus

Read from index.html
--serif / --sans / --mono, lines 20–22

Three faces, three jobs, never blurred. The home page's own colophon states the rule: "Set in Charis SIL and IBM Plex Sans, with SF Mono for every figure." The serif and the sans are self-hosted — the two faces a reader actually reads at length, 68 KB together. The mono stays a system face. No third-party request either way — see card 10 for the evidence behind both decisions.

The three stacks

Display — the voice--serif
Charis SIL (bound),
then Iowan Old Style,
Charter, Cambria, Georgia
Four deeds that record no price, and a $15M public purchase.
Body — the interface--sans
IBM Plex Sans (bound),
then system-ui,
Segoe UI, Helvetica Neue
Resident-built, source-linked, and candid about its own gaps. Every figure here opens the record behind it; anything we can't show, we name.
Mono — the apparatus--mono
ui-monospace, SF Mono,
Menlo, Consolas
early 14-source case fixture · 197 prototype ALERG keyword matches for the lead investigation · figures current as of July 2026

Scale, as shipped

H1serif 600
clamp(28px,3.5vw,44px)
1.14 / -.019em / 19ch

One city's budgets, votes, and land deals — read the way the documents actually read.

H2serif 600
clamp(23px,2.5vw,31px)
1.18 / -.012em / 24ch

197 prototype keyword matches mention this case. Not one of them connects to another.

H3serif 600
20px (18px in standards)

Power-plant redevelopment

Ledesans 17px
--fg-2 / 52ch

The former GenOn coal plant went to title in 2021 through transfers flagged exempt and "not a valid sale."

Bodysans 16px / 1.6

Accountability breaks when priorities, promises, money, and outcomes blur into one story.

UIsans 13.5px
nav, card prose (1.5)

The deeds, votes, and declared recusals behind the lakefront land deal.

Source linemono 11.5px
--muted / .02em / 72ch

A mention is a keyword match on a case term — not a verified substantive discussion. Corpus scan verified 2026-07-15.

Eyebrowmono 11px
uppercase / .16em / --forest
Independent public-record project · Avon Lake, Ohio
Stampmono 10px
uppercase / .11em
the size floor
Prototype · 197 matches Records requested

The figure rule

Every headline number is serif + tabular-nums. A number set in sans is a violation of this system — it stops reading as a quantity drawn off a document.

$15M

27px · ledger

90.6%

27px · ledger

197

21px · panel row

43.23 ac

21px · panel row

$15M

✗ sans — never

Marker swipe

One word per page. scaleX(0→1) from the left, .95s, .3s delay — and pre-lit under prefers-reduced-motion.

read the way the documents actually read

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