Credits
Typography
Fraunces — display serif, by Undercase Type. SIL Open Font License 1.1.
Inter Tight — text humanist sans, by Rasmus Andersson. SIL Open Font License 1.1.
JetBrains Mono — monospace, by JetBrains. SIL Open Font License 1.1.
All three families are self-hosted from apps/web/public/fonts/ and fetched at install time from the @fontsource-variable jsDelivr mirror. Licence files live alongside the fonts at apps/web/public/fonts/LICENSES.md.
Imagery
The three architectural plates on /research and /about are AI-generated via fal.ai's Flux 1.1 Pro model, post-processed in Photopea per §2.5.1 of the architecture document. Prompts, seeds, and generation dates live at apps/web/public/imagery/MANIFEST.md. Commercial-use rights via fal.ai terms.
The diagrams on /intelligence are hand-drawn by Steve and vectorised in-house. In-house licence; contributor credit retained on each SVG.
The founder portrait on /about is shot in-house. iPhone, north-facing window, no retouching beyond exposure.
Sound
No sound at v1. The architecture leaves room for six original sounds (per §2.7), commissioned as a single composer brief; the toggle in the header surfaces them when they ship.
Code and stack
Astro 5 · React 19 · Tailwind 4 · GSAP 3 (open-source core, no commercial plugins at v1) · Cloudflare Pages, Workers, D1, R2, Web Analytics, Turnstile, Email Routing · Pagefind static search · Sentry for errors · SendGrid for transactional email · Biome for lint and format · Vitest + Playwright for tests · Lighthouse CI for budget · linkinator for dead links · axe-core for accessibility.
Source at github.com/sconnellan/colosseum under colosseum/ui/cmintel/. The architecture document at Build/Website/CMINTEL_ARCHITECTURE_v1.md is the spec; this site is its execution.
With thanks
The lenses on this build, each name set in the typographic style most associated with that name's work — Phase 4 D4.4 secret #7:
- Cassie Evans — motion grammar (§2.6).
- Brad Frost — atomic design (the §5 component library).
- Vignelli Associates — the typographic discipline.
- Don Norman — keeping interaction design honest (§3.3).
- Marty Neumeier — brand differentiation (§2.8).
- Erika Hall — voice and honesty discipline (§2.8).
- Paula Scher — wordmark.
- Hiroshi Sugimoto · Candida Höfer · Hélène Binet · David Adjaye — architectural-photography references.
And to the open-source maintainers of Astro, Tailwind, GSAP, Pagefind, Vitest, Playwright, axe-core, Pagefind, and the SIL OFL families above.
To anyone whose work appears here without attribution by accident: please mail trust@cmintel.ai and we will correct the record promptly.
Last updated 2026-05-04