About this website

Colophon

This site is designed and maintained by Phil Bowell as a small, practical home for portfolio notes, professional history, and future writing.

Design

The visual direction is intentionally quiet: warm off-white background, near-black text, muted grey supporting copy, and a sage green accent used sparingly for links and active details.

The layout favours generous spacing, narrow measures, and a simple content hierarchy so the writing and work can carry the page without extra decoration.

Type

The site is set in Figtree, served through Google Fonts. It is used across headings, body copy, navigation, and small interface details to keep the system deliberately simple.

Build

Generator

Jekyll, using the native GitHub Pages build.

Templates

A single base layout with small includes for navigation and footer.

Styles

Hand-written CSS in one file, built around custom properties for colour, spacing, and layout.

JavaScript

None in the initial build.

Hosting

The site is hosted on GitHub Pages. Publishing is handled by pushing to the main branch, where GitHub builds and deploys the site automatically.

Materials

The wordmark is Phil Bowell Design's own SVG logo. The current content is written directly in Markdown and HTML, with the CV adapted from Phil's existing professional history.

Last updated during the 2026 rebuild.