Case Study· 2026· Internal

Eleleth, editorial system

Eleleth is an internal editorial project: a research archive on philosophy and symbolic systems, published as essays on a static site built from scratch. We designed the identity, the editorial system and the publishing pipeline — from private note to public essay.

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Client
Internal Project
Industry
Research & publishing
Platform
Astro, static site
Year
2026
Status
Live
The challenge

Research that stays buried in notes

Years of research sat in a private archive of thousands of notes — useful to the author, invisible to anyone else. Publishing each essay by hand meant copying, reformatting and losing context at every step. The project needed its own identity, distinct from the rest of the studio, and a short path from note to published page.

The solution

From archive to published essay

We built a static site on Astro with its own visual system: editorial typography, a family of sigils drawn for the project, and a layout made for long reading, not scrolling. The archive stays the source: essays start from the research notes and pass through a publishing pipeline with fixed editorial rules, including a new essay published automatically every week. The site is live at eleleth.org.

Visual identity

Color palette

Near-complete darkness, with violet and cyan as the only accents — a page made for reading at night, not for scrolling.

Violet
#7C4DFF
Cyan
#22F0DD
Night
#0E0E16
Ink
#14141A
Fog
#E8E8F0
Typography
Primary display
Inter

Inter for headings and interface, with monospace accents (Menlo) for metadata and footnotes.

Secondary body

Inter for body text, and the reading mode also offers Lora (serif), Atkinson Hyperlegible or OpenDyslexic.

The reader picks their own reading font.

Process

From research to launch

01
We audited the research archive and chose what deserved publishing, and in what order.
02
We defined the visual identity: editorial typography, custom sigils, a restrained palette.
03
We built the static site on Astro, optimized for long-form reading.
04
We connected the archive to the site through a publishing pipeline with fixed editorial rules.
05
We automated weekly publishing so the project grows without manual effort.
06
We launched on eleleth.org and have kept publishing essays since.
Information architecture
  • Essays
    • Focus reading
    • Reader-chosen fonts
  • Archive
    • From the research vault
  • Identity
    • Sigils drawn for the project
The site

Reading on screen, without noise

The Numogramic Sigil Engine

Type a name or an intention and the language is reduced through gematria to a route drawn live across the canonical numogram — a deterministic cyber-occult diagram generator: same input, same sigil, every time. The diagram's layers switch on and off individually, and the result exports as a PNG, an animated GIF, or a JSON recipe. Every sigil comes with its own derivation inspector, showing step by step how letter became route.

Essays built to be cited

Every essay has numbered paragraphs, quote-ready fragments, and exports as a typeset PDF or plain Markdown — any claim can be referenced precisely. Two reading modes: Focus, for annotating, and Canvas, which turns the essay into a board; “in dialogue with” links the pieces to each other. New essays and the connections between them grow out of the materials ingested into the research wiki: read sources, concepts, contradictions, syntheses.

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