This website's design

For small sites like this, I prefer to write the HTML myself rather than use a generator. The CSS is tufte-css with some minor modifications:

• The body font is Palatino rather than ET Book.
• Underlines go straight through descenders¹.
• The background is white rather than pale yellow. It's a bit less readable but I like the starkness.
• Unused CSS rules like sidenotes were removed.
• I implemented my own footnotes.

I chose to use tufte-css because I like its default spacing values and thin link underlines.

¹ Interestingly, Medium's article on underlines talks about clearing the descenders, but it seems like they actually changed their opinion and don't clear the descenders now. [back]