Books about technological, economic, and scientific advancement

Stripe Press produces works about ideas for progress.

Charlie MungerPoor Charlie’s Almanack
Michael S. MaloneThe Big Score
Nadia EghbalWorking in Public
Donald W. BrabenScientific Freedom
Richard W. HammingThe Art of Doing Science and Engineering
The catalog

Book covers carry the colour

Poor Charlie’s AlmanackCharlie Munger
Get TogetherBailey Richardson
The Art of Doing ScienceRichard W. Hamming
Newsletter
Stripe partners with millions of businessesIvar Text 25/1.5
Ideas for progress, in print and pixelsitalic serif
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Controls

Square & letterpress-plain

Submit Read more Disabled Non-fiction
Submit Read more ← hover: lift / warm inset glow
you@example.com you@example.com ← focus (illustrative; site hover/focus cross-origin, not captured)

Controls are strictly square (0px): a near-black #222222 Submit and an rgba(0,0,0,.067) email field, both 48px. Hover lifts the button and casts a warm inset glow rgba(217,119,87,.7) 0 0 15px inset; exact site hover/focus were cross-origin and not captured.

Typography

One serif superfamily (Ivar · specimen Newsreader)

Body / reading · Ivar Text · 25/37.5 · 500Ideas for technological and scientific progress.
Masthead h1 · Ivar Headline · 17.6 · 600 · +0.32pxStripe Press
Tagline h2 · Ivar Headline italic · 16 · 600Ideas for progress
Label / credit h3 · Ivar Headline · 16 · 400 · +0.32pxEdited by Peter D. Kaufman
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Palette

Warm near-black chrome + rotating book covers

Chrome (dark shell)
canvas#201819
ink-dark#1d1a15
cream#e2cab0
cream-hair#dbcab5
white#ffffff
btn#222222
grey-50#504f4f
Book-cover palette (rotating per title)
navy#18185e
blue#201e8e
pale-blue#dee6ff
yellow#ffd943
gold#dfc78e
khaki#c1b676
olive#303328
moss#93935f
maroon#4d1a28
brown#442c25
cyan#96dced
orange#ffb55e
magenta#f366ff
Depth & motion

Square, flat, WebGL depth

0px control
3px cover
2px
flat (1px cream hairline)
inset glow rgba(217,119,87,.7) 0 0 15px

Motion: transform 0.3–0.4s ease-out slides and lifts the spines; the shelf itself is a full-viewport Three.js WebGL scene, gated behind a prefers-reduced-motion block. Depth is refused in CSS — no drop shadows, just the WebGL scene and a warm inset glow.