#design
3 posts
Turning screen-printing limits into design tokens
This site's visual direction is Riso screen printing. What I actually built was the printing constraints as tokens, so retheming touched two files and no component changed.
Manual i18n: what hand-rolling three languages costs
I hand-rolled this site's i18n instead of using Astro's built-in config. Here is why, and exactly where the cost shows up — two 404 incidents and a blog that was half translated.
Design tokens: one file that runs the whole site
Why every colour, spacing step and corner radius lives in _tokens.scss — and why changing this site's entire visual direction only touched two files.