Credits
The Bit Philology website stands on the work of many open-source communities, who made the typefaces, the icons and the software that you are using right now. Thank you.
Open-source Software
- Svelte and SvelteKit, with its static adapter and the Vite plugin for Svelte: the framework. MIT license.
- Vite: the build tool. MIT license.
- Tailwind CSS: the styles. MIT license.
- TypeScript and svelte-check: the language and its checks. Apache-2.0 and MIT licenses.
- unified, with remark (parse, GFM and rehype), rehype-slug and hast-util-to-html: the conversion of Markdown pages into HTML. MIT license.
- yaml: the reading of the page settings. ISC license.
Typefaces
All the typefaces are open source, released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, and are served from this website through Fontsource.
- Mona Sans, by the Mona Sans Project Authors (GitHub)
- Bitcount Prop Single, by the Bitcount Project Authors (Petr van Blokland, TYPETR)
- JetBrains Mono, by the JetBrains Mono Project Authors
Icons
- Pixelarticons, by Gerrit Halfmann. MIT license.
Contents
The contents are curated by the Bit Philology team: Elena Spadini, Elena Barchielli, Simon Willemin and Tommaso Elli. You can find them on the team page.
Images
Unless differently specified, the images and illustrations of the website are created by the team, even with the use of AI image tools.
Tools
- Penpot: the design of the website (initial)
- Figma: the design of the website
- GitHub: source code versioning
- Claude Code, by Anthropic
The full text of the licenses is included in the packages of each project.
Project and partners
Bit Philology is a Starting Grant project of the Swiss National Science Foundation running from 2025 to 2030. It is conducted at the Digital Humanities Center, part of the Walter Benjamin Kolleg at the University of Bern. The logos of these institutions belong to them and are used here to acknowledge their support.