Colophon

Colophon is a designer-y word for “how it's made”—here's what powers ravigopal.com.

About this site

I designed and built this site myself. It's a home to share things I'm exploring and things I've built. It's a place for me to learn in public.

Technology

This site is built using NextJS. ContentLayer handles the content-heavy views as MDX files.

Styling

I use TailwindCSS and CSS Variables to apply palettes consistently, ensure accessibility, and seamlessly switch between light and dark mode.

Icons are from Phosphor Icons

Typography

Sans text on the website is set in Inter, serif font is Crimson Pro and the monospace font is Geist Mono. The font are pulled in from Google Fonts using NextJS font optimization.

Performance

The website avoids unnecessary scripts (such as trackers, analytics, or resource-intensive animations) and compressing images and video. There are no third-party cookies here, and your data isn't collected when using this site. More details about the privacy of this site

Website Carbon Calculator

As of 5th March, 2025, carbon results for ravigopal.com indicate that the home page is cleaner than 98% of web pages tested, producing 0.02g of CO2 per page view. Carbon results for ravigopal.com

Code

Code is edited using NeoVim on a MacBook Pro. My terminal of choice is iTerm. My go-to coding font is Source Code Pro.

Hosting and deployment are via Vercel. Email forwarding is through ImprovMX.