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title: "Colophon"
description: "How darrynpasqua.com is built — Zola, Duckquill, GitHub Pages, and a custom Burnished Brass theme."
canonical: "https://darrynpasqua.com/colophon/"
---

# Colophon

This site is built with Zola and Duckquill, published on GitHub Pages, and kept intentionally small.

It defaults to plain HTML and CSS. JavaScript is not required to read it.

The theme is a local Duckquill override with a custom palette layered on top. The configured accent colors are `#755437` for light mode and `#8A6745` for dark mode.

The light theme uses `#f5f2e8` as the page background, `#2d291f` for primary text, `#666050` for muted text, `rgb(252 250 244 / 0.78)` for glass surfaces, and `#241f15` for contrast surfaces.

The dark theme uses `#0f1416` as the page background, `#e9e5da` for primary text, `#c8c1af` for muted text, `rgb(24 32 36 / 0.78)` for glass surfaces, and `#18150d` for contrast surfaces.

Most of the customization is structural rather than decorative: compact navigation, a CRT-style intro block, custom project cards, and tighter spacing rules for the homepage and section pages. The palette and those layout overrides live in `static/burnished-brass.css` and `static/gallery.css`, with a small theme script for switching behavior.

The goal is straightforward: static output, minimal client-side behavior, and a theme that is specific enough to be recognizable without depending on a large frontend stack.