Fire Tablet

The Fire Tablet is one of the best-known prayers of Bahá'u'lláh. I wanted to be able to read it on a screen the way it deserves to be read: one verse at a time, unhurried, with nothing else competing for attention.

Each verse is set on its own page, styled after an old manuscript — cream paper, generous margins, a serif face, gentle fades between pages. You move through it by swiping, clicking, or with the arrow keys, and that is the entire interface. No menus, no settings, no chrome.

Technically it is a small React application, but almost none of the effort went into the code. The work was typography and restraint.