Colophon
A record of the tools, fonts, technologies, and intelligence used to build and maintain this digital notebook.
Design
- Palette Charcoal, Cream, Copper, Slate
- Typography DM Serif Display & DM Sans
- Icons System emoji + Custom SVG
- Theming Dynamic Dark / Light mode
Frontend
- Stack Vanilla HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript — no frameworks
- Responsive Mobile-first editorial layout
- Print Custom A4 PDF-optimised rules
- Fonts Hosted via Google Fonts
- Hosting GitHub Pages
Data
- Recipes 125 structured JSON files
- Nutrition DB 324-entry ingredient database
- Price DB 510-entry Woolworths AU price reference
- Index Auto-generated recipe-index.json
- Storage Local flat-file — no cloud database
Tools
- Editor VS Code + Live Server
- Version Control Git
- Validation JSONLint & W3C Validator
- Nutrition Source AUSNUT & Australian Food Composition Database
- Inspiration 20th-century family cookbooks
Features
- Search Full-text, ingredient-based, fuzzy matching
- Filters Category, tag, difficulty — combinable
- Scaling Real-time ingredient calculator
- Cook Mode Step-by-step with voice read (Web Speech API)
- Shopping Dynamic list with cost-to-make & buy-per-serving
- Nutrition Auto-calculated from ingredient DB
- Tracker Daily intake log with 7-day history
- Collections Meal plans with combined shopping lists
- Builder JSON recipe editor with diff view & import
Credits
- Recipes Family archives, commercial kitchen experience, and testing
- Primary AI Claude (Anthropic) — architecture, code, content
- Backup AI DeepSeek & Google AI Studio — cross-checking & alternatives
- Idea Preserving recipes that actually work
- Fuel Coffee, biscuits, and patience