Colophon
How this was made
A short record, in the open-source spirit of the ecosystem this venture belongs to.
Concept
A hand-inked atlas of your sky. The reference is antique celestial cartography: parchment ground, iron-gall ink, oxblood and gold leaf, drawn at a mapmaker's desk rather than rendered by a machine. Four systems arrive as four separate plates, and the work is laying them in register until they read as one map. That idea drives the whole page, and it is why the four chart layers assemble as you scroll rather than simply appearing.
The site and the portrait are deliberately the same object. Someone who reads this page and then opens their PDF should recognise the paper.
Type
Display and headings are set in Marcellus, a Roman-inscription face with the slight irregularity of something cut rather than drawn. Body text is Lora, a serif with enough calligraphic weight to read as printed rather than posted. Marginalia and the signature are Caveat, so anything handwritten looks written onto the page after printing rather than typeset with it.
All three are self-hosted, never loaded from a font CDN. The exact woff2 files this page uses are extracted from the ones the PDF is set in, so the page and the artifact cannot end up in different cuts of the same typeface.
Palette
Parchment for the ground, iron-gall ink for text and linework, oxblood for emphasis, gold for rules and section marks, slate blue for tertiary linework, and a single night-ink section that is never allowed to become the whole page.
These nine colours live in one file that both the website and the PDF renderer read. They used to be typed out in both places, which is exactly how two things that must match stop matching.
Tools and techniques
The site is plain HTML, CSS and TypeScript built with Vite, with GSAP and Lenis for scroll-driven motion. Every animation is wrapped in a reduced-motion query and every initial state is set in JavaScript rather than CSS, so the page reads complete with scripts disabled or motion turned off.
The portraits themselves come from a local rendering pipeline that captures each source chart, normalises it, and refuses to render anything that fails validation. Charts are drawn as SVG from the validated data rather than pasted in as screenshots. The pages shown on this site are photographs of a real portrait, not mockups.
Provenance
Soulistic Blueprint is a distinct project from Dr JuJu Love, who prepares every portrait personally. It belongs to the Open Source Divine ecosystem.
Questions, corrections and disagreements are welcome at drjuju@drjujulove.com.