How the page is set

The type & the design

The Steeping is set in the Scion design system — the design language of a Bengali scientist-aesthete, grafting the laboratory onto the broadsheet onto the warm, faded materials of post-independence India. The display face is Rozha One; the reading face Newsreader; the interface Hanken Grotesk; the notation Courier Prime. Bengali is set in Tiro Bangla, Odia in Noto Serif Oriya. The Scion system was itself authored from a character brief — there is no older logo or product behind it — and it supplies the palette, the seal, the motifs and the voice used throughout.

The plates

Where photographs are absent, an honest duotone plate stands in — a faded collotype, never a broken image. The illustrated plates are generated with gpt-image-2 andnano-banana-2 from prompts written in the house style, then toned to the Steeped palette and laid under the paper grain. Each is captioned as a plate, with its provenance kept on file.

The discussions

Each memoir may carry one or more recorded conversations — two readers talking the piece over. They aregenerated, and the voices are synthetic. They are not translations of one another: an English discussion and a Bengali one are independent talks about the same memoir, and may range differently. They are offered beside the text, not above it; read first, or listen first, as you like.

The press

The site is a static broadsheet, built with Astro and served from GitHub Pages. It carries no tracking and asks nothing of you.