Varve Open the app

Credits

Every photograph, and whose it is

All three are Creative Commons, used unmodified except for cropping, scaling and re-encoding. Provenance is recorded by tools/fetch-photos.mjs at the moment of download rather than reconstructed afterwards.

PhotographByLicenceSource
Peyto Lake, Banff. The colour is glacial rock flour held in suspension — the same silt that settles out into varves.BecksCC BY 2.0Wikimedia Commons
Pleistocene varved clay at Baumkirchen, Tyrol. Each couplet is one year, and none of them can be written afterwards.Hermann Hammer (User:Haneburger)CC BY-SA 3.0Wikimedia Commons
The Lake Suigetsu core at the Fukui Varve Museum: 45 metres of annual layers, read back 50,000 years.Phonon.bCC BY-SA 4.0Wikimedia Commons

The logo

The mark, the lockup and the app tile are in /brand, generated by tools/make-logo.mjs from the same geometry the site draws and the same solved palette it ships, so they cannot drift from it. The lockup SVGs embed the latin subset of Newsreader: an SVG that merely names a font renders as Times wherever that font is absent, and the failure is silent.

Everything else

The type is Newsreader and Inter, both under the SIL Open Font Licence. The icons and the mark are drawn in this repository. The palette is solved by tools/palette.mjs and every pair is checked before it ships.