Built for the hardest night

Many of our readers are exhausted, on a phone at 2am, and many have sensory sensitivities of their own. Accessibility is not a feature here. It is the identity. This page is the policy we hold ourselves to.

Type and contrast

Body text is set in Atkinson Hyperlegible, chosen for exactly one reason: it stays readable when eyes are tired or vision is low.
Both site fonts are self-hosted. Reading this site sends no requests to font services.
The colorful mode you see by default meets WCAG AA contrast. Calm Mode is the structural answer for readers who need more: a quiet, higher-contrast surface that targets AAA body contrast.

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Atkinson Hyperlegible was created by the Braille Institute and designed to improve legibility and readability for readers with low vision.

Verified July 19, 2026

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Calm Mode

The Calm button in the header swaps the whole site to a quiet instrument surface: steel blue on white, plain headings, zero motion, no illustrated characters. The words on every page stay exactly the same. Nothing is hidden behind the colorful version.

Your choice is remembered on your device and nowhere else. And if your system asks for reduced motion or more contrast, Calm Mode turns itself on before the page even paints, so the loud version never flashes at you.

Motion

This site animates: drifting clouds, a pinned step carousel, a card that flips as you scroll. Every bit of it is decoration, and every bit of it honors your settings.

If your device asks for reduced motion, all of it stops. Clouds freeze, the carousel becomes a plain stack of sections, the flip card sits face up, and smooth scrolling switches off.
No content ever requires motion to reach. With scripts off, every page is a complete static document.
Nothing on this site flashes, and nothing autoplays with sound.

Keyboard and screen readers

A skip-to-content link is the first thing the keyboard reaches on every page.
Every control is a real link or button with a visible focus ring, tuned to stay visible on every background color.
The step carousel offers real buttons, and it reads as plain sequential sections to assistive tech.
Decorative art is hidden from screen readers. Meaningful images carry real alternative text.

The honest part: a full screen-reader walkthrough of the core flow is on our pre-launch checklist and has not shipped yet. What we find gets fixed and noted here.

Tell us where it fails

If any part of this site is hard for you to read, navigate, or operate, that is a bug in the site, not in you. Accessibility reports go to the top of our queue. Email us or use the report form, and if you are comfortable saying what tech you use (screen reader, switch, magnification), it helps us fix it faster.