What markdown looks like here

7 September 2026

A reference for how the stylesheet renders things. Worth keeping around until the design settles, then delete it.

Headings and prose

Body text is Verdana at 16px on a 65-character measure, which is the width most people read comfortably without losing their place between lines. Links take the accent colour and keep their underline.

A third-level heading

Emphasis comes in italic and bold. Inline code sits in a tinted box.

Block quotes are set in italic against a rule, and stay quiet enough that they read as an aside rather than a shout.

Lists

• Unordered items
• Nested lists work too
  • like this
• And they wrap cleanly at this measure

1. Ordered lists are numbered
2. In the usual way

Code

def greet(name: str) -> str:
    """Syntax highlighting is deliberately subdued."""
    return f"hello, {name}"

Tables

Element	Font	Size
Body	Verdana	16px
Dates	Mono	0.85rem
Headings	Verdana	1.45rem

Footnotes

Kramdown handles footnotes,¹ which render at the foot of the post behind a rule.

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That horizontal rule is the one other place the accent colour appears.

Callouts

Quick announcement: a boxed aside for things that sit outside the flow of the post — an update, a caveat, a note that this piece is out of date.

Write it as an ordinary block quote and tag it with {: .note} on the line directly underneath.

1. Like this one. ↩