the spine

oriz-blog typographic series indicator

the spine

Definition

The Spine is oriz-blog’s typographic series indicator — a row of filled and hollow circles connected by horizontal rules (e.g. ●─●─○─○) that shows where a post sits in a multi-part series.

Expanded

Filled circles (●) are posts already published; hollow circles (○) are forthcoming. The horizontal rules connecting them are the “spine”. It renders inline, in the post header, and in the series index page.

The Spine is oriz-blog’s most distinctive visual element and is explicitly typographic — no SVG, no images, just unicode and CSS — so it survives every render context including the GitHub Pages survival fallback and RSS readers.

See also

• the-seal
• the-provenance-strip

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