Typefaces the site cannot serve, such as Helvetica, Univers, Futura and Times New Roman, appear as specimen images rendered from licensed system fonts. Literata is drawn live, from a file served beside this page.
The nineteenth-century poster is a sketch set in today's fonts, not a reproduction. Arial's matched widths: Arial, Wikipedia; the sentence on screen measures 423.18 pixels at 44 pixels in both Helvetica and Arial, in Chrome.
The narration is a synthetic voice (ElevenLabs). Timing follows the narration track, so a recorded voice-over can replace it cue for cue using the transcript.
With Reduce Motion turned on in the operating system, the film keeps its fades and drops the sliding motion.
Set in Atkinson Hyperlegible Next and Mono, typefaces the Braille Institute designed for readers with low vision.