michi.sh

The site you’re reading. michi.sh is a personal home built around one idea — 道, the way — and a sumi-e visual language: warm ink black, washi paper, a calm ladder of greys, and a single vermilion seal.

Highlights

• Astro 5 with Markdown content collections — writing a post is just dropping a .md file in a folder.
• A 3D 道 mark rendered entirely in SVG (layered extrusion + an ink-to-light gradient), so it stays crisp at any size and weighs almost nothing.
• Type set in Zen Old Mincho and Zen Kaku Gothic New, which carry both Latin and Japanese glyphs for a cohesive feel.
• 間 (ma) — negative space — treated as a first-class design element.
• Built-in light/dark via prefers-color-scheme.
• Deployed to GitHub Pages on a custom domain via GitHub Actions.

Why build my own

Plenty of templates would have been faster. But michi is partly about the discipline of making something deliberately — so the site being hand-built is the point, not an accident.