Available Page Layouts

The jekyll-theme-tufte includes two layouts by default. Choose your layout in the YAML front matter at the top of the file, which is where Jekyll expects to find page metadata.

Use layout: post for blog posts.
Use layout: page for standalone Jekyll pages.
Use layout: blog-list for the listing of all blog posts.

The default layouts are half width to allow room for sidenotes. Set full_width: true in the front matter to make the body content run the full width of the page instead. (This page you’re reading is full width.)

Jekyll pages will appear in the navbar by default. (Set nav_exclude: true to hide.)

Configuration options

These custom variables may be set in YAML front matter of each page to change various behavior:

nav_exclude: true — Don’t show the page in the nav.
weight: 123 — Set the order of pages in the nav.
head_title: foo — Use “foo” as the <title> text in the page <head>.
nav_title: bar — Use “bar” as the link text in the nav, overriding title.
full_width: true — Make the page body full width instead of half.

For example, the front matter for this page looks like this:

---
layout: page
full_width: true
nav_title: Layouts
title: Available Page Layouts
weight: 4
---

Content here...

Typography notes

This theme bundles the et-book typeface from tufte-css.

Lining numerals

By default, we use lining numerals with uniform height. This is good for tables.

We zeroed in on 1,234 cases out of 5,678 candidates in the last 90 days.

Old-style numerals

Add the .numeral CSS class to any element to use old-style numerals. This is good for numbers in text.

We zeroed in on 1,234 cases out of 5,678 candidates in the last 90 days.

Ligatures not enabled

There is a version of et-book available upstream that includes ligatures (e.g. making the “ffi” in traffic one connected glyph), but I found that it reduces legibility, so it is not included here.