About Enlumn

Enlumn tells the story of the San Francisco Bay Area in four parts: the events that remade it, the neighborhoods people built, the landscape underneath, and the plants and animals that live here.

Each entry is a short narrated film that plays through a three-dimensional scene. Pause at any moment and you are inside it: turn the view, and click the places, objects, and creatures that have a story to tell.

How the stories are made

Every fact links to a source you can check. Where historians or scientists disagree, or a date is uncertain, the entry says so. Entries are written to be listened to as much as read.

Free, for good

Enlumn is free. There are no accounts, no ads, and no tracking cookies.

Credits

Relief map: elevation data from Terrain Tiles on the Registry of Open Data on AWS, compiled by Mapzen from sources including the U.S. Geological Survey and NOAA, rendered for Enlumn.

Type: Newsreader by Production Type, and Inter by Rasmus Andersson, both under the SIL Open Font License.