Building the house

Perpetūra and Pantheon each have their own site, on their own subdomains of lacunaedesigns.com. Perpetūra has been live for a while; Pantheon followed it. Both work fine on their own. What was missing was the bare domain: type lacunaedesigns.com and there was nothing there. No page introducing the studio, nowhere to point someone who has not read either book yet, nowhere to write about the work itself rather than the work's fiction.

This hub is that front door. A showcase that names both works and links out to them, a devlog for notes like this one, making-of pages for each book that stay on the process side of the spoiler line, an about page, and one mailing list instead of two.

The design question was how a third site sits next to two that already have a look. The answer is what I have been calling the triad: Perpetūra and Pantheon are siblings, and this hub is a third sibling rather than a parent. All three share the same grammar, dark grounds, warm metal accents, parchment-toned reading text, the same type family logic, and each keeps one accent that is only theirs. Perpetūra is gold. Pantheon is oxidised brass. This hub takes crimson, on an oxblood-tinted near-black rather than either of the other two grounds. Nothing about the hub should read as more important than the works it links to; it is the connective tissue, not a fourth thing above them.

The stack matches the siblings on purpose: plain HTML and CSS, no framework, no build step. The one piece of tooling is a small Node script, the same one that turned this post into a page, that reads markdown files with a little frontmatter and turns them into the devlog index, individual post pages, the landing page's latest-posts list, and an RSS feed. Generated output gets committed, same as the sibling sites, so the deployed copy is never more than a git push away.

What comes next: the making-of pages get proper long-form treatment, one per book, and the domain apex itself goes live so lacunaedesigns.com stops being empty.