Lorem ipsum

Uses both generated lipsum and random paragraphs I’ve actually scrawled out.

This theme will most likely be seen/used on the blog page, and miscellaneous pages that I don’t feel like making separate layouts for (sitemap, privacy, colophon, maybe about). Ditching colors entirely in favor of monochrome, because I like blues but you really can’t go wrong with grayscale.

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h2: second-level heading, hewwo? hewwo???

My font preferences change on a dime, and much as I love Verdana (old forum nostalgia, babey), I’m also a sucker for that “text is displayed more or less as-written” aesthetic. On the other hand, Consolas conveys a techy code-y vibe that I probably don’t always want. And much as fancy professional fonts are tempting, I’ve been drifitng away from them in the interest of web-safe fonts; they load faster, there’s nothing wrong with them.

Practical Typography has some pretty damning things to say about Times New Roman, but I don’t follow that book like a gospel anymore. It does bring boring essays and government documents to mind, though, which is unfortunate. Is it time to bring Alegreya back for a nicer-looking sans-serif, maybe? Mm, no, it’s a very nice font but not quite what I want all the time. The niceness is almost detrimental, I feel; I’m trying to not invoke perfectionism here.

tfw styleguide turns into a ramble in its own right

Hey, that’s as good a way to test as any, right? You know, while I don’t need to use Arial specifically (I’ve cemented it in my own head as The Kade Font—despite Consolas not having a character association, probably largely because it’s just the Notepad++ default), I guess it wouldn’t hurt to just… leave it sans-serif and specify nothing else. Fuck it, I end up changing the font on half the pages anwyay.

keeps hemming and hawing over fonts

lol whoops nvm I’m still being finicky here. Honestly, at this point I might as well just make a damn font, but then I’ll want to nitpick the kerning and everything…. Bluh, what if we just go with whatever the browser default wants? Segoe UI is nice but I wish it distinguished uppercase-I and lowercase-l better. Although, let’s be real, I’m nitpicking at this point. I just don’t want to load in an external font if I absolutely do not have to, and usually I don’t. Segoe is all Microsoft-y but y’know, 90% of people aren’t gonna notice or care about this stuff anyway >:V and it’s less “this just got spit out of a Word document” than Calibri. Fuck it, Segoe UI new default confirmed??

oh and I guess I should mention I remembered Segoe existed after flipping to a Piped tab and noticing that’s the font they use. a’ight we done here

I think I’m just going to ignore image and hr and blockquote and other styling until it actually becomes, like, necessary.

Because LBR I don’t use them very often, and it becomes much less intimidating to add stuff to the default layout if I know it’s not going to retroactively fuck up a bunch of things when I do.

• Cool!
• Awesome.
• This is a short list but half the time my “lists” are actually just paragraphs in disguise.

Here is a list that is actually just paragraphs:

Aaaand one more paragraph.

And oh okay fine some additional formatting amnesty just to save myself work later:

Blockquote! There’s a certain thrill to hand-coding a website like this. Gone is the uncontrollable code of a bloated CMS. Farewell, text fields forbidding HTML. Hello, simple, quickly-loading static pages, in which everything appears exactly as I want it to! It’s all I need from a site for the foreseeable future.

edit 4/21: It is also worth noting that doing everything by hand means, if something goes horrifically wrong, I have only myself to blame.

aaaand one other thign

I use images in posts very rarely but what the hell.

This isn’t the sort of guide I was looking for*

Aaand one more line to close.

4/30 addendum

*where the hell did this line come from??? Uhh, I think I did the thing where I start writing a revision up top and let the old version fall down the page, and then completely Did Not notice the old fragments are still there. And/or I wanted to write more re:dark mode styling but then just,,, Didn’t :V

also, I miss the color :Tc even though I intentionally removed it from most recent plaintext layouts… the stark grayscale works better on the toyshelf and artfight sites mislim, where the art takes center stage. when it’s text-only it’s just… Hm. now it’s too clean??? I think half the reason I’ve been putting off the actual update push is because I remember the aborted redesigns and I’m like “damn I miss the scribbles”, augh

ok let’s try this: layout gets a variable, if true then header gets a scribble and if not then it stays as-is. da? u redu??? ok. everything else here is pretty solid, at least.

although shit dude idk I’m tired :V Finished Not Perfect….