How this is made.
The North Pacific Strategy Initiative website and its working papers are built using open type families, plain HTML and CSS, and a small number of widely-used static-site technologies. This colophon documents the choices for the curious and for anyone wishing to extend or fork the work.
Typography
Source Serif 4
Display and body text. Designed by Frank Grießhammer at Adobe; released as open-source under the SIL Open Font License. The successor to Source Serif Pro; chosen for its calm, institutional weight and its variable-axis flexibility.
Source Sans 3
Sans-serif body and interface text where used. Pairs natively with Source Serif 4. Designed by Paul Hunt at Adobe.
JetBrains Mono
Monospaced text for classification lines, page numbers, document metadata, the volume identifier, and any displayed code. Open-source under the SIL Open Font License.
Noto Serif KR · Noto Sans KR
Korean script in headers and body. Part of the Google/Adobe Noto family; pairs well with the Source family and supports the imprint's Korea convention.
Color
Pacific Navy #081C30
The paper. Since July 2026 the imprint sets its pages dark: Pacific Navy is the ground, deepened one step for screen reading. Reads as institutional in Ottawa and as 청 (cheong) in Seoul without copying either national flag. In print the palette re-inverts and navy returns to ink.
Document Cream #F4EFE3
The ink. Wordmark, document headings, masthead, and dominant typography, carried in the cream family on the navy ground — the visual register of a working paper read by lamplight, not a corporate slide deck.
Treaty Bronze #C08D60
Accent. Used for meridian rules, italic descriptors, accent borders, and KPI numbers — lightened one step from the print value #A47148 for contrast on navy. Diplomatic, treaty-document weight; never used as a fill.
Maritime Teal #7FA8B5
Section markers, classification lines, monospace metadata — lightened from the print value #3D6A78 for the dark ground. Restrained and quietly maritime.
Wordmark
The NPSI wordmark sets NORTH PACIFIC STRATEGY INITIATIVE in Source Serif 4, weight 600, with 0.14em letter-spacing, in Document Cream on Pacific Navy on screen — in print the pair re-inverts; there is never a third combination. Above the wordmark, a thin Treaty Bronze meridian carries three small ticks marking a conceptual span: Victoria — mid-Pacific — Busan. Below, the italic descriptor Working Papers on Pacific Sovereignty & Bilateral Architecture sits in Treaty Bronze; further below, the volume identifier VOL. I · EST. MMXXVI sits in JetBrains Mono in Maritime Teal.
The wordmark appears on document covers, the website masthead, and released figures. The compact masthead — wordmark with thin bronze rule, no descriptor — appears on the top of every page of every document. The wordmark is never recoloured, never combined with national flags or symbols, and never paired with a separate icon, mascot, or symbol mark. The wordmark is the mark.
Document standards
Each NPSI working paper is identified by a document ID of the form NPSI-WP-NNN, a version number of the form vM.m[.p], and a release date. Each release is tagged in the corresponding GitHub repository, accompanied by a CHANGELOG.md entry, and made available on the imprint website at a permanent URL.
Working papers are written in Markdown source, edited under git, and rendered to HTML for the web, to PDF and DOCX for download, and to printable form for institutional submission. The HTML rendering on this website is the canonical reading view.
Site technical
This site is plain static HTML and CSS, hand-authored, no JavaScript framework. It is served as static files from a content-delivery network. Aggregate visitor analytics are provided by Umami — a cookieless platform that records page views and referrer sources without setting cookies, without fingerprinting, and without collecting personally identifying data. No third-party cookies are set. No advertising is served. The site does not collect personal data; the only personal data the Initiative holds is editorial correspondence sent voluntarily to its email aliases, and any future mailing-list subscriptions explicitly opted into.
The full site source — HTML, CSS, working paper Markdown, figures, and build scripts — is available at github.com/cherishwins/npsi-site. The site is itself released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0); contributions are welcomed via Pull Request.
Licensing
- Working paper text: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0).
- Site source code: MIT License.
- Figures: CC-BY-4.0 unless otherwise noted on the figure itself.
- NPSI wordmark and visual identity: Not licensed. The imprint is editorially independent and the mark is not for re-use.
Acknowledgements
This site is the work of one person, but the work it carries draws on many. Editorial debts will be noted in each working paper's CHANGELOG.md as named contributions arrive.