An illuminated-manuscript triad, tuned dark and occult — gold leaf on bitumen. Two registers: Illuminated, the canonical glow, and Carcosa, its sallow, foxed shadow. Use the toggle to re-skin the page.
The baseline. Gold reads as leaf, not highlighter; the ground is bitumen-dark so the gold can glow like illumination.
The shadow sub-palette — for horror / apocalyptic-leaning issues and episodes only, never the baseline. Sallow gold, foxing sepia, pallid verdigris; apply with grain and foxing texture.
Display in Cormorant Garamond; body in Spectral. The wordmark sets the brand colour, the oxblood dot, and a vellum italic.
Vision, set in print and sound
A small press working the seam where the Western mystical tradition meets the contemplative life — made with rigour, issued without hurry. The register is unhurried and exact: closer to a reading room than a feed.
A few elements rendered on the active register, so the tokens can be seen working together. Flip the toggle to compare.
One sentence on what this issue circles — the figure, the text, the question it sits with.
A line of description — the thread it follows, the voices it gathers.
Install @kung-fu/sulfur and link
sulfur.css. It defines the raw palette and a set of
semantic tokens — --bg, --text,
--accent, --rule, and friends —
that you build with.
npm install @kung-fu/sulfur
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/@kung-fu/sulfur/dist/sulfur.min.css">
Illuminated is the default. Opt into Carcosa by setting
data-palette on the root element — every semantic token
remaps, so styled UI re-skins itself.
<html data-palette="illuminated"> <!-- canonical (default) --> <html data-palette="carcosa"> <!-- shadow register -->
.feature {
background: var(--bg-raised);
color: var(--text);
border-top: 1px solid var(--rule);
}
.feature a { color: var(--accent); } /* gold leaf */
.alert { color: var(--accent-2); } /* oxblood */