The Old-World Study Kit

A Pico CSS v2 base re-bound in espresso wood, parchment, antique brass, hunter green and oxblood. Every component below is plain semantic or Drupal markup.

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Palette

Espresso
#1c1816

Tobacco
#2b2421

Parchment
#f4f0ea

Antique brass
#c5a059

Hunter green
#3a4f41

Oxblood
#5c2c2e

Lampblack
#22201f

Bone
#e3ded8

Typography

Fraunces for display, Lora for reading.

Heading one, in Fraunces

Heading two: notes from the desk

Heading three

Heading four

Heading five – engraved label

A good bookshelf says a lot about its owner. The spines face outward, and so do the owner's interests: here a well-thumbed field guide, there a cookbook with the corners turned. Body copy is set in Lora at a comfortable measure, with true italics, highlighted passages, N.B. abbreviations and inline code.

Keyboard shortcuts appear as Ctrl + S; small print reads in small capitals; struck words and inserted words use the oxblood and hunter dyes.


  • Leather-bound volumes
  • Brass reading lamps
  • Maps of forgotten counties
  1. Read the primary source
  2. Take notes in the margin
  3. Write it up

Buttons

Form elements

A plain, honest title. Fraunces will do the rest.
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Binding
Leather
A single ribbon, sewn into the headband.
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Advanced options

Collapsible Drupal details element.

A form on letterhead

Images & media

Hand-drawn map of a coastline with three towns and a compass rose
Plate IV · The Western Shires, 1788
Bookshelves lit by a brass lamp
Default content image (CKEditor 5 caption markup).

Cards

Vol. I

Reflections on the Revolution

Leather-bound volume in oxblood with a ribbed spine, gilt tooling and a page block.

Vol. II

Orthodoxy

The same binding in hunter calf. Add .card--hunter or .card--tobacco.

Memorandum

A note to self

Parchment note with a folded corner and a brass pin. It switches to the light tokens automatically.

Essay

Default card (desk blotter)

Pico's <article> in tobacco leather. With .card--linked, the whole card is clickable.

12 minutes’ reading

Blockquotes & callouts

Society is indeed a contract… a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

— Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors.

— G. K. Chesterton

Ledger table & pager

Acquisitions, Michaelmas term
TitleAuthorYearPrice
The Decline and FallGibbon1776£12.50
LeviathanHobbes1651£8.00
The Abolition of ManLewis1943£4.75
Total£25.25