Colophon — How this site is built

A site that knows the time of day

The backdrop is a real-time 3D scene built with React Three Fiber. A sculpted form, lit entirely by HDR environment maps, follows your cursor with a gentle easing — and the whole mood shifts across morning, noon, evening, and night. Left on "Auto", it reads your local sunrise and sunset to match the light outside your window, falling back to a simple clock when location isn't shared.

One source of truth for the look

Every colour, type style, radius, and the frosted-glass treatment lives as a set of design tokens. The four moods are expressed as a single palette that re-points its variables when the theme changes, so flipping the time of day re-themes the entire surface in one move. Those same tokens are mirrored into a Figma library, keeping design and code in step.

Built to last, cheap to host

The site is a statically-exported Next.js app — pre-rendered to plain HTML and served from GitHub Pages. The interactive 3D is a single isolated client island, so everything else stays fast, server-rendered, and accessible: it respects reduced-motion, pauses when the tab is hidden, and drifts gently on touch devices instead of chasing a cursor that isn't there.