[HN Gopher] ET-Jekyll: Edward Tufte-inspired Jekyll theme ___________________________________________________________________ ET-Jekyll: Edward Tufte-inspired Jekyll theme Author : bradley_taunt Score : 82 points Date : 2021-06-05 18:05 UTC (4 hours ago) (HTM) web link (et-jekyll.netlify.app) (TXT) w3m dump (et-jekyll.netlify.app) | mrunseen wrote: | This have antialiasing on, while Tufte CSS doesn't, making the | text little less "bold" on my Mac. I prefer the antialiasing: | auto one (browser on the right) | | https://i.imgur.com/qEkfG06.png | mro_name wrote: | nice, what about dark mode? | ekam wrote: | Seconding this, dark mode would make it perfect. Great work | otherwise though | bradley_taunt wrote: | Good call! Will add it to my TODO list | G1N wrote: | I have an Edward Tufte Jekyll theme with dark mode here: | https://ibrahimsaberi.com/, not the same as this one but | hopefully similar enough | mro_name wrote: | impressive | strzibny wrote: | Beautiful theme. Also happy to see Jekyll here. | antiterra wrote: | If only for unique lI1, Johnston is a better choice than Gill | Sans for a body copy sans serif font. (Tufte's preferences | notwithstanding) | 0atman wrote: | Been using this for a few years now, LOVE marginnotes! For | example: https://www.0atman.com/articles/20/polyphase-one-month | magamig wrote: | These custom fonts that people use are so unnecessary... Just let | me use my browsers' default! | mrunseen wrote: | It is only natural to include a font which was commissioned by | original author. | slater wrote: | ET Book, the font used on the page, is free and open-source: | | https://edwardtufte.github.io/et-book/ | | Modern browsers also have preferences to switch off web fonts. | divbzero wrote: | The main downside of custom web fonts isn't the licensing but | having to download those fonts to render the page. There are | ways to optimize font loading [1] but it can still lead to | delay in rendering or font swaps. | | It looks like ET-Tufte has already considered and tried to | mitigate this downside. [2] | | [1]: https://web.dev/optimize-webfont-loading/ | | [2]: https://et-jekyll.netlify.app/et-jekyll- | theme/#performance | mrunseen wrote: | Licensing is a issue[0] in commercial fonts, though. | | [0]https://twitter.com/typographica/status/1395769805542547 | 461?... | sergiomattei wrote: | I think it's beautiful. It's all subjective and they strived to | add beautiful typography to this theme. | JustFinishedBSG wrote: | > Just let me use my browsers' default! | | Just disable fonts in the browser settings then. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-06-05 23:00 UTC)