SASS and Light Mode
by FIGBERTI’m on a roll! A second blog post in less than a month! Crazy. Anyway, as you may have noticed – depending on whether or not you read this via RSS or on the main site – I changed the site styles. I got rid of dark mode, added styles for code and keyboard blocks, and changed the look of links to a new cool design.
Update: I brought back dark mode. Light mode gave me anxiety.
It all started the other day when I was cruising through cyberspace
and noticed a rather unique looking link style. Instead of the
traditional underline styling, hyperlinks were
surrounded in square brackets (like Markdown). I thought it was a
really cool change, and made the site stand out – so I stole the
idea and implemented it here! Yay for stealing. More on this in a
future post…
However, when I went to add the new style to my site I noticed that my
global.css file had gotten rather lengthy and disorganized. Given
that Zola comes with built-in support for
Sass, I thought I might try it out. I found it easy enough to
pick up given that I already know CSS. I decided to use Sass’
indented syntax, which required more work to convert
from my existing CSS but – in my humble opinion – looks much
cleaner.
Given that I was already tinkering with site styles, I decided to
implement a couple other changes. I abandoned the site’s dark mode,
as though I myself am an avid dark mode user, I couldn’t find a way to
implement it in a satisfying way. If I figure out a Sass-y way to do
so, I may add it back. I added a border around inline code blocks
because I thought I already had done that. Lastly, I added
StackExchange’s amazing kbd styling so I could write
⌥ + ⌘ + N in this article.
I’m pretty happy with the new styles, but I have no doubt I’ll continue to tweak it as I find cool designs around the web.
Thanks for dropping by: see you next time!
FIGBERT
PS: It’s interesting that Sass supports both of the two modern syntax paradigms, both the indents and linebreaks camp and the brackets and semicolons camp. I don’t really prefer one over the other, but it’s an interesting divide.