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The idea

Open Atelier is a place to write fiction, find what is not working on your own pages, learn why, and try again. Our stance on AI fits on one line: write however you write, and be truthful about how.

Type

The interface is set in Hanken Grotesk, by Alfredo Marco Pradil. Your writing is set in Cardo, by David J. Perry, a serif first drawn for scholars of old texts, so the page reads like a page. Both are served from this site under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Marks and icons

The full stop mark, and the marks for modes, severity and authorship, are drawn for Open Atelier. Interface icons are Phosphor Icons, by Helena Zhang and Tobias Fried, under the MIT License.

Built with

• React Router, rendered on the server
• Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, D1 and Queues
• ProseMirror, for the editor
• Better Auth, for email links and passkeys
• Drizzle, for the database

Fast by design

The editor saves to your browser first and syncs in the background, so typing never waits on the network.

How it was made

Being truthful about how applies to us too. The software and much of its copy are written with Claude, an AI model made by Anthropic, under the direction of Jean-Philippe LeBlanc, who reviews what ships.

Not training data

Every page here asks AI crawlers to stay out and signals ai-train=no. Writers' work is not training data.