Colophon.
The typography, infrastructure, and design principles behind the collection.
Typography
The site uses exactly two typefaces, both native to your machine.
- Sans-serif: The default UI font stack (
-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto). Used for prose, titles, and general reading. - Monospace: The system monospace stack (
ui-monospace, SFMono-Regular, Menlo). Used for UI labels, tags, data readouts, and structural elements.
There are no external font files to download. We don't use Google Fonts because requesting a font file from a third-party server is a tiny privacy leak. By using system fonts, the page renders instantly and leaves zero footprint.
Stack
tinyfiles.tv is built to survive on a minimal VPS.
- Server: A single-node Linux VPS.
- Logic: Vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. No Node.js on the frontend, no React, no build steps.
- Database: MySQL for the Save API and Community Boards.
- Containers: Python backends run in per-call Docker containers: no network, read-only root filesystem, non-root user, 128MB RAM, 0.5 CPU, 3-second timeout. The container is spawned per call, destroyed after the response, and never reused.
Design Principles
- No nonsense: The site is meant to feel like a useful tool, not a marketing funnel. The UI is dense but functional.
- No footprint by default: No cookies, no cross-site tracking, and no localStorage unless you explicitly click the red button to opt in.
- The Creme aesthetic: The default theme uses a warm, paper-like background (
#f4f1ea) with sharp, dark typography. It is meant to look like a well-worn technical manual.
Credits
Maintained and organized by Retrogames10000, curated by committee vote.
Built for the creators who make lightweight, self-contained web works.