# Colophon

Compiled by [Robin Monks](https://coldwar.tech/about), a Cold War archival expert.

*The type, tools and communities behind the archive*

Cold War Tech is researched, written and built by Robin Monks, both as a labor of love and also because I find the Cold War era's technology forever fascinating. This page credits the typefaces, tools and communities that make the archive possible.

## Typography

- [Parts List and DRAFT PAPER](https://www.bethmathews.com/) are licensed from Beth Mathews Design; these fonts are used in the hand-lettered stamps, headlines and draftsman annotations across the site.
- [Atkinson Hyperlegible Next](https://www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/) by the Braille Institute, my deepest appreciation for their work on making fonts optimized for human reading.
- [Courier Prime](https://quoteunquoteapps.com/courierprime/) by Alan Dague-Greene shows around the site as the "typewriter" typeface.

## Built with

The site runs on [Kirby CMS](https://getkirby.com), a flat-file PHP CMS that keeps the archive speedy and easy to edit and back up. 
Visitor statistics come from [Tinylytics](https://tinylytics.app) by Vincent Ritter, a privacy-first analytics service.

Along with Kirby itself, this site also makes use of the following plugins:

- [Better Search](https://github.com/bvdputte/kirby-bettersearch) by Bart Vandeputte
- [Feed](https://github.com/bnomei/kirby3-feed), [Fingerprint](https://github.com/bnomei/kirby3-fingerprint) and [Robots.txt](https://github.com/bnomei/kirby3-robots-txt) by Bruno Meilick
- [Footnotes](https://github.com/sylvainjule/kirby-footnotes) and [Code Editor](https://github.com/sylvainjule/kirby-code-editor) by Sylvain Julé
- [Similar](https://github.com/texnixe/kirby3-similar) by Sonja Broda

The EPUB reader, PDF previews, the Markdown and llms.txt endpoints for AI agents, and the analytics integration are in-house plugins built for this archive. Hopefully someday I'll have the time to open source them.

## Inspiration

A grateful nod to the [r/longlines](https://www.reddit.com/r/longlines/) community, whose photographs and site surveys of AT&T Long Lines towers and other hardened infrastructure rekindled my interest in Cold War technology and set this archive in motion.

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Canonical URL: https://coldwar.tech/credits
Last updated: 2026-08-27