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Colophon

a description of the book at its end

editors
Jeremy & Sam — Twin Gradients. Edited and architected together, between San Francisco and Cuernavaca, spring 2026.
premise
Love and Limerence is a multi-contributor zine on love, longing, and the language pressing against the body. The work is the architecture: each piece is its own room; each contributor is named at the door. There is no order. You can enter anywhere; you can stay as long as you wait.
credits
The zine and the music are by Jeremy & Sam together (Twin Gradients). The collages collected under tu jamón are Jeremy's solo work, built around figures from Roland Barthes' A Lover's Discourse. Other contributors are credited at their own pieces.
typefaces
Display: Fraunces, by Phaedra Charles & Flavia Zimbardi at Undercase Type. Open-source variable serif, optical sizes 9–144, with SOFT and WONK axes used here at threshold scale.

Body: Newsreader, by Production Type. Open-source serif made for screens; multi-optical-size; the reading face of every chamber.

System: JetBrains Mono. Captions, page-numbers, timestamps; the editorial machine voice.
palette
Flesh-paper #ECE2D7 · aubergine ink #2A1D2A · dusty lavender #8A6E8A · rose dust #B89C8C · a faint blush #E4C9C4. Chosen to feel like the inside of a curtained room in the late afternoon, when waiting is thickest.
print version
A print companion is being made in parallel, in Affinity Publisher, on a 6-column grid at 5.5 × 8.5", two-color riso (lavender + forest green) on natural uncoated stock, saddle-stitched. The print and digital versions are not copies of each other. Some pieces appear only in print (foldout, tipped-in card, riso overprint as object). Some pieces appear only here (audio, video, slow-reveal).
technical
Built in Eleventy on top of twingradients.xyz. No framework, no JS bundle, no tracker beyond Plausible. Threshold transitions use the CSS View Transitions API; slow-reveal uses IntersectionObserver. The persistent footer player is a single <audio> element kept alive across navigations via sessionStorage. Total payload <3MB per page (excluding contributor audio).
on the digital ↔ print relation
Print imposes sequence; digital affords entry from anywhere. To turn a page is not the same gesture as to click a link, and we have not pretended otherwise. The two formats sit beside each other like two lovers on a couch reading different books in the same room.
with gratitude to
Roland Barthes. Richard Howard. Laurel Schwulst, for thinking about websites as rooms. Mindy Seu, for the Cyberfeminism Index. Eric Hu and Linked by Air, for editorial pace. Sam, for the birds at the top of Stanyan Street. And every contributor, named in their figure.
contact
return ↘
Dedication / to begin again
no figure silence
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a discourse in figures