Readability and Simplicity

This blog is based on Hugo. The old Hugo theme I (and so many others!) used was Terminal by panr. It’s a good theme, pretty simple and has a nice retro look. It’s not very nice to read on though.

This time I picked smol by colorchestra and did some own modifications. I have changed the font inside the actual posts to ‘Ibarra Real Nova’, one which I find really pleasant to read. The posts are now using some more spacing between lines and the space between headings and text has also been modified to be a bit more dense.

Dark Mode

Terminal was a dark theme and there was no way of togging it. Smol is a light theme but has support for dark mode if your browser asks for it. My iPhone is always set to dark mode, but when I read stuff during daytime I like to read black-on-white, ie. light theme. That’s not possible with Smol out of the box, but with some JS I was able to make a toggle that fits into the site.

I really wanted to keep the blog JS-free. The snippet won’t break anything if it’s not loaded though, except for the dark mode toggle of course.