Notes on type, space, bilingual pages, and what a scene costs.https://mh-honarvar.github.io/enhttps://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/author-and-trust/https://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/author-and-trust/The about page is the author: Mohammad Honarvar, the portrait at /portrait.jpg, and Telegram @MH759. The page does not invent a public biography.Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTpersiantypographyhttps://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/sharing-in-two-languages/https://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/sharing-in-two-languages/Copy, Telegram, and X send only this page URL. og:locale is fa_IR or en_US, and hreflang for the other language is written only when that twin file exists.Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbilingualpersianhttps://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/the-html-map/https://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/the-html-map/The HTML map at /fa/map/ and /en/map/ groups pages, the topics, every note in that language, and two cases. A new post is on the map after the next build.Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTstaticbilingualhttps://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/the-next-article/https://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/the-next-article/Related notes are at most three same-language posts that share a tag, ranked by shared tags and then by date. The previous and next links are a separate list.Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTreadingrtlhttps://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/topic-hubs/https://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/topic-hubs/A topic page lists a few notes on purpose. /en/topics/rtl/, /type/, and /speed/ are not the blog, and the Persian hubs are separate addresses.Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbilingualrtlhttps://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/visible-before-motion/https://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/visible-before-motion/The reveal class is visible by default. Only html.is-motion hides those lines, and that class is added when home or projects actually start animating.Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTperformancereadinghttps://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/first-screen/https://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/first-screen/The home heading is already in the HTML. The intro canvas keeps to the free space beside it, and skip works at once, before the font or the particles.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTperformancemotionhttps://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/focus-and-rtl/https://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/focus-and-rtl/The skip link is first in Tab order and uses inset-inline-start, so on a Persian page it sits at the right. The focus ring does not invent a second edge.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTrtlfocushttps://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/font-display-and-persian/https://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/font-display-and-persian/Persian pages set Vazirmatn first for fa-IR. Inter on this site is Latin and Latin-extended only, and both variable faces declare font-display: swap.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTtypographypersianhttps://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/persian-numerals-and-fonts/https://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/persian-numerals-and-fonts/Persian digits here are fa-IR characters drawn by Vazirmatn. Inter omits that range, OpenType never swaps the figures, and GitHub stars stay Latin.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTnumeralsrtlhttps://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/reading-measure-and-rhythm/https://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/reading-measure-and-rhythm/How this site sets the reading line: a 70ch article column, line-height 2 for Persian prose, and a drop cap that only English essays may use.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTtypographyreadinghttps://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/separate-locale-routes/https://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/separate-locale-routes/An hreflang pair is the same filename in the other language folder. A tag archive is indexed only when that name is in tagPairs.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTpersianbilingualhttps://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/two-language-urls/https://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/two-language-urls/Persian and English are two files. hreflang is emitted only when the twin exists, and each page’s canonical URL is its own address, not the other language.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbilingualpersianhttps://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/what-a-static-page-owes-the-reader/https://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/what-a-static-page-owes-the-reader/A static Astro page owes the sentence first: HTML already built, fonts that swap in, and no Three.js, GSAP, or Lenis billed to the essay itself.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTstaticperformancehttps://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/when-to-skip-the-animation/https://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/when-to-skip-the-animation/GSAP and Lenis stay unloaded on articles and whenever reduced motion is set. The home intro can be skipped at once, before the particles finish.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTperformancemotionhttps://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/why-css-direction-is-not-enough/https://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/why-css-direction-is-not-enough/dir on the html element sets the line’s start, not the font, the digits, or the canvas. Gradients, transform origins, and a few ltr islands stay manual.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTrtlpersianhttps://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/persian-rtl-interface/https://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/persian-rtl-interface/How this site keeps Persian and English apart — separate URLs, direction, Vazirmatn, and a solar calendar — without pretending a missing translation exists.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTrtltypographyhttps://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/this-site/https://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/this-site/Mohammad Honarvar’s personal site, static in Astro, TypeScript, and Three.js. Persian and English are two addresses, and client work is not written up here.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTwebhttps://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/type-and-space/https://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/type-and-space/Font weight, Persian line height, and motion on this site — Vazirmatn, Inter, word-level splits, and when Lenis is allowed to load.Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTtypographyhttps://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/static-pages-and-webgl/https://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/static-pages-and-webgl/This site is a static Astro build. Three.js runs on the home hero and the projects city, not on essays — and the intro can be skipped at once.Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTwebglhttps://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/rtl/https://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/rtl/Persian and English here are two pages from the start. Direction, Vazirmatn, and the private card arrive with that layout, not as a patch added at the end.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTrtlhttps://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/hello-world/https://mh-honarvar.github.io/en/blog/hello-world/The first post on this blog: the site is static Astro and Three.js, and motion loads only when that page asks for it and reduced motion is off.Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTdesignweb