Hallo, my name is Claire Violet.
I’m a trans photographer, archivist, and software engineer. My pronouns are she/her or it/its, whichever you feel most comfortable using. I live in beautiful, sunny Seattle, Washington. I love 1970s Swiss graphic design, philately, trains, and my Triumph Bonneville T100 motorcycle.
Software
I'm really passionate about building beautiful websites. You can see more of my past professional work and contributions to the world wide web on my GitHub. I'm currently writing Typescript and React full-time, focusing on design systems, as part of my company's frontend developer experience team.
Photography
You can see the best of my photography on Glass. Glass is a community and photo-sharing app for photographers that I’ve really enjoyed using. You don’t need an account to browse my work, and you can even follow my posts there without making an account via the RSS feed.
Archives
Since 2022, I’ve been volunteering as the archivist for the Connections Museum, preserving and organizing their library’s unique collection of telecommunications history. Historic preservation, especially of graphic design and ephemeral media, through digitization is really important to me. I've digitized a lot of documents for the Connections Museum Seattle—many of which are available on my Internet Archive profile—including a large collection of the Bell System's graphical standards manuals done by Saul Bass in 1969, which I think are just stunningly gorgeous.
Contact
If you'd like to, you can email me. hallo (at) claire (dot) jetzt
About the Colors
This website makes liberal use of my favorite PANTONE colors, ● 108 C and ● Violet C.†‡ I love to use vibrant color wherever I can, and these two colors have represented me across the internet for quite a while now. I love how warm and full of sunlight this particular yellow is. Violet is a spectral color and likely isn't depicted very well on your device's screen.
Note on the Type
This website is typeset in Inter, an experimental and open-source typeface created in 2016 by Rasmus Andersson. Inter was designed specifically for computer-screens, with the intent of crafting highly-readable user interfaces. It's a beautifully clear but subtle typeface that departs from the all-encompassing use of Helvetica. Perhaps you recognize it?
‡ PANTONE® is a registered trademark of Pantone LLC in the United States and/or other countries.