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Isabelle Oliveira

How this site is set

A style sheet for the site itself.

Every manuscript I work on gets a style sheet: the rules it is set by, kept where the whole team can see them. It would be poor form for this site not to have its own.

Typefaces
Libre Caslon Display for display; EB Garamond for text; the machine writes in mono. Three voices, never a fourth.
Palette
Paper, ink and a proofreader's red pen — roughly 70% paper, 22% ink, 6% red and 2% green for what's approved. If red is doing more than punctuating, it is wrong.
Corners & shadows
Square corners everywhere. The only shadow is a hard paper offset, never blur — this is a sheet of paper, and paper does not glow.
House style
PT↔EN · Chicago & New Hart's Rules — which settles the serial comma question: it stays.

spotted an error on this sheet?
query it: isabelleoliveira@hotmail.com