Colophon

A colophon is where a printed thing owns up to what it's made of. This one follows the same order of preference as everything else here.

Queer work, first. Where a queer maker has done the thing, and done it well, that's what gets used. The masthead is Unormative Fraktur, from Bye Bye Binary — a French-Belgian collective making post-binary, inclusive letterforms. It is exactly the sort of work this catalogue exists to point at.

Open, where queer isn't available. The body text is Crimson Pro, released under the SIL Open Font License: free to use, free to study, free to hand on. Open beats proprietary every time the option exists.

Independent, where neither is possible. Some things can be neither queer nor open. When that happens, the choice goes to independent makers and small software over the large and the extractive. The headings, the interface type, and the engravings throughout are all the work of one designer, Tom Chalky. The site itself runs on Ghost, an independent nonprofit. Not perfect — the least bad available choice, made deliberately and named here rather than buried.

Privacy, by design rather than by setting. Every tool was chosen as much for what it refuses to do — track you across the web, sell your attention, feed a model — as for what it does. None of your data is sold. None of it trains anything. That was the criterion, not an afterthought.