1024 text colours
1024 of them — 128 families × 8 weights: 1 is the strongest, 8 the softest. Each one is solved for the background it is used on, so it stays legible on white and on black. The list is in four sections: Neutral, Spectrum, Named and Flat.
1024 colour schemes
1024 of them — 128 families × 8 depths: depths 1–4 are light pages, 5–8 dark ones, and the family called Plain is white, greys and black. The Spectrum families are thirty-three evenly spaced stops around the hue circle, the Named ones are the everyday colours between them, and the Flat ones — tinta unita — are those same colours kept at full strength, mixed with nothing but white or black. A scheme’s colour is the same hue at every depth, only lighter or darker.
1024 typefaces
1024 typefaces — as many as the colour schemes, and chosen the same way: a long list rather than a short one, ranked by how much the web actually uses them. Every one is self-hosted, latin only, one file each, and open source. They are sorted into five sections — Sans Serif, Serif, Display, Handwriting and Monospace — and each row draws itself in its own face only once it is on screen, so opening this panel costs nothing and a typeface can never slow a page down.
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|---|---|---|---|
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