desca.dev

// the wall

notes from
a candlelit corner

DESCEND
ILLUMINATE
DESCANT
2024

NIGHT SHIFT

A typesetter for zine makers working between midnight and dawn. Low-contrast UI that fades into the dark so the work stays visible and the tool disappears.

/ editorial / tooling

the light moves before it arrives

— overheard
2023

WAXWORK

Generative posters cast from audio waveforms. Each print is a candle: burns once, smells faintly of cedar and burnt sugar.

  • risograph
  • web audio
  • svg filters

/ print / sound

// fragment no. 04

There is a room inside every font — you can only see it at 3 a.m. when the kerning relaxes and the words begin to breathe.

2024

DRIFT//ROOM

An ambient web radio that plays the sound of its own CDN latency. Headphones recommended.

/ audio / web

descent is a method. the shadow is the teacher. the wick is the page.

2022

VOTIVE/CSS

A zero-raster visual system for small publishers. Every illustration is a gradient, every gradient a prayer, every prayer a bleed.

  • css only
  • tokenized palette
  • print-ready export

/ design system

// note to self

Keep the grid irregular on purpose. A perfectly even wall is a prison. A slightly crooked wall is a home.

pinned
2025

SMOKE & STEAM

A newsletter of field notes from late-night studios. 200 readers, 3 issues a year, printed on recycled cardstock by a press that only runs on Sundays.

/ writing / print

a page is a doorway

— m.s.

// fragment no. 11

Monospace is honest. Every letter asks for the same amount of room and receives it. The rhythm is the message.

Serifs lie by habit. Sans-serifs lie by omission. A good monospace simply waits.

2023

CRYPT.LOG

A write-only journal for projects that should never become products. The entries encrypt themselves after seven days.

/ journal / privacy

THE ALTAR

// correspondence

// elsewhere

written in pencil on the last page, then folded

DESCA · MMXXVI · LIT BY HAND