The Dresden Codex is one of only four surviving pre-Columbian Mayan manuscripts — a 39-page bark-paper-and-stucco accordion-fold painted by Yucatec priest-scribes around 1200 CE, mapping Venus cycles, eclipse predictions, and ritual ceremonies. The visual system is severe and exact: cream bark-paper ground, deep iron-red and carbon-black hand-painted glyphs, horizontal narrative registers, profile deities, and a bar-and-dot number system.

This design language carries that trichrome discipline into the screen. Cream surface, red and black ornament, horizontal register bands, lapidary Roman caps for headings, Garamond serif for body — handled with the cultural gravity these sacred astronomical texts deserve.