Colophon

Typefaces

This site is set in two cuts of one family.

• Archivo (running text) — a grotesque sans designed by Omnibus-Type for editorial and digital use. Used for body copy, navigation, metadata, and any other string that should read cleanly at small sizes. Released under the SIL Open Font License.
• Archivo Narrow (display) — the narrow cut of the same family, used for hero headlines and section heads where vertical rhythm benefits from condensed letterforms. Released under the SIL OFL.

Both faces are served from Google Fonts.

Palette

The colors are drawn from Portland State University’s brand guidance.

• PSU Green #4d6b1a — primary accent, link color
• Forest Green #213921 — display headlines, primary structural ink
• Electric Green #cfd82d — sharp accent (active-nav rule, hover underline, the paper-kind news chip)
• Sand #e8d3a2 — secondary accent (the award-kind news chip)
• Pale Green #f6f8f2 — page background, light theme

Build

• Hugo extended (≥ 0.160.1) generates the static site. The theme is custom, fully local under themes/PorPLV/.
• lunr.js builds a client-side search index for the publications page.
• Feather Icons provides the small UI glyphs that remain after the editorial redesign trimmed most of them.
• The recurring turnstile glyph ⊢ (U+22A2) is the typing-judgment mark from formal logic and lambda calculus. It serves as the site’s visual signature wherever a section divider is needed.

Source

The repository lives at gitlab.cecs.pdx.edu/portlandplv/website. Issues, suggestions, and corrections are welcome.

Accessibility

The site targets WCAG 2.1 AA. Skip links, focus indicators, ARIA landmarks, prefers-reduced-motion, and screen-reader-only labels are in place; per-page audits are run before each release.