Design & image credits
Form follows
the evidence.
The visual direction combines archival documents, book typography, open reading paths and contemporary controls. It is specific to a historical exhibition about food and power.
Three references, distinct roles.
Anti-slop informed the critique of repetition, unsupported visual claims and template composition. Its purpose test helped distinguish useful structure from decoration. Its design principles informed the presentation rather than supplying a website framework.
shadcn/ui informed the composition of evidence dialogs and keyboard tabs. The implementation uses native HTML dialog elements and original JavaScript, rather than bundling its React components or copying its visual theme.
Reflex and its responsive-layout documentation informed component separation and breakpoint thinking. Its Python application runtime is not required by this static exhibition.
The site depends on no single UI library. Layout, historical interpretation and visual identity are developed for this project. Controls use browser-native semantics; CSS and JavaScript are kept local for ordinary static hosting.
Typography.
Libre Caslon Display, by the Libre Caslon Display Authors, is self-hosted under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Read the bundled licence. Georgia and the system sans serif provide reading text and interface labels.
Archival images.
The homepage uses a title page and printed page 6 from Rules of the Rochdale Equitable Pioneers’ Society (Limited), Rochdale: Gilbert Haworth. The title records adoption meetings on 8 January, 22 January and 5 February 1877. Scans contributed by Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, through Internet Archive item rulesofrochdalee648roch.
The text was published in the nineteenth century and is treated as public-domain historical material. These are actual scanned pages, not generated facsimiles. Original page proportions are retained in the document viewer; the small admission-page preview is cropped for display. Source links, dates and evidence limits accompany the images.
No images from Wellcome’s rights-uncertain Rowntree item are redistributed here. Its checked data is presented as a new transcription and chart.
Contemporary illustrations.
Two original images were generated on 2 November 2026 using AI image generation: a kitchen-work still life and a conceptual campaign table. Their engraving style is a contemporary visual interpretation. Neither is an archival image, a reconstruction of an exact recipe or meeting, or evidence about the people, equipment or social composition of a historical group. The anonymous figures are imagined.
The images use the exhibition’s ivory, ink, green and rust palette. Visible captions distinguish them from scanned documents. Original PNG files are bundled locally in assets, with descriptive alternative text and responsive proportions. No historical data or source scans were changed.
Full generation prompts and method.
Food studies.
Five additional AI-generated engraving-style food illustrations accompany bread pudding, raised poultry pie, lemon jelly, Home Made Yeast and Graham Gems. Generated with the built-in image-generation tool on 2 November 2026. They are inspired by the named recipes and recorded ingredients or equipment, but do not establish historical appearance, precise servings, vessel ownership, class or actual preparation. The yeast image is a conceptual preparation, not a finished dish. No food image accompanies Howe’s statement because it is not a recipe.
Open an illustration to view the full-size local PNG. Captions and alternative text remain beside the recipe; original source scans remain separately identified. Full food-image prompts and filenames.
Floating catalogue presentation, 5 November 2026.
Nine floating covers open the exhibition’s chapters, while an expandable directory offers a complete set of reading paths. Local CSS perspective, restrained pointer tilt, animated reader openings and section transitions add depth. A motion toggle and reduced-motion support keep movement optional. The data register, chapter evidence and illustrations retain their source status and limits.
The catalogue uses local styles and scripts; no external application runtime is required.
Presentation & evidence.
The design pass changes presentation and navigation. Source records, monetary data, contested dates and critical qualifications remain. The Recipe Cabinet is an independent companion exhibition with its own colour palette.