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See it work

The interactive piece from the front page, with room to try it, followed by Palimpsest’s logo, colors and type.

The idea

Say two people both end up with hello in a password field. One typed it straight through. The other typed hellp, hit backspace and typed o. With Palimpsest, those are different passwords. It records every edit in order, turns that into a standard transcript, and uses the transcript as the credential.

Typed as	Field shows	Edit transcript	Credential
Straight through	`hello`	+h+e+l+l+o	`49a0 604d 1147 4e10`
With a correction	`hello`	+h+e+l+l+p⌫+o	`6937 82f2 c00e c7f1`

Try it. Type, backspace, retype.

Your edits appear here as you make them.

Field shows — · credential —

Fig. 1. Two people type the same word and end up with different credentials. This is a simplified illustration: it hashes a plain list of edits with SHA-256, in your browser, and sends nothing anywhere. Palimpsest’s canonicaliser defines its own transcript format.

Assets

Logo, colors, and type.

Mark

The project’s generated logo mark. The grid gets finer with the commit count, and the cells show the split between languages. It’s redrawn as the project grows.

Palette

The colors Palimpsest uses across this site: one hue from its discipline’s band, plus the shades that make it work on both dark and light backgrounds.

Palimpsest Research & specifications DM SANS · NEWSREADER · DM MONO

Type

The two typefaces on the site: a sans-serif for the interface and a serif for headlines.

Put Palimpsest in your pipeline

Ask about hooking it up to the repositories and agents you already run.

Email dmoore@dwmmholdings.com How it works