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Morten Victor Nordbye

Writes about building things that stay simple

Builds small, boring tools and writes about why they stayed small. Currently thinking about static sites, colour contrast, and how much of a framework you can delete before anyone notices.

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Recent posts

accessibility

Measuring Contrast Instead of Guessing

Four of the theme's own syntax colours failed the 4.5:1 floor. All four had been calculated by hand and looked fine.

accessibilitydesign
1 min read 195 words
example

Shipping a Static Site Without a Node Toolchain

Hugo's asset pipeline covers concatenation, minification and fingerprinting on its own. A third post, so related content has more than one candidate to choose from.

examplebuild
1 min read 151 words
writing

A Post With Two Authors

Credited to two people, so the byline, the author pages and the author card at the foot all have something real to render.

writing
1 min read 101 words
typography

Setting Long-Form Text for the Screen

Measure, leading and scale are the whole job. A second post so prev/next, related content and the post index have something real to work with.

typographyexample
2 min read 305 words
design

Thumb and background hero

Demonstrates heroStyle = "thumbAndBackground". Its cover is deliberately textless, because this treatment puts the title on top of the artwork.

design
1 min read 108 words
design

Background hero

Demonstrates heroStyle = "background". Its cover is deliberately textless, because this treatment puts the title on top of the artwork.

design
1 min read 108 words