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tufte-css
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edwardtufte / tufte-css

tufte-css

Style your webpage like Edward Tufte’s handouts.

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

Style your webpage like Edward Tufte’s handouts.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 12:45:45 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year16 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-08-05 19:52:06 UTC to 2025-08-22 15:41:15 UTC.

02462015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 0 submissions, 7 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC707
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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daveliepmann·Aug 7, 2015
I agree regarding the example document. It's been troubling, because the fact of the matter is that those headings are legitimate, it's just that there's a mismatch between the goals of the description document and the goals of the kinds of documents that Tufte CSS is best suited for. I agree strongly with your idea of making several sample documents to experiment with. See https://github.com/daveliepmann/tufte-css/issues/26 I'll try to look into your points about leading, text size, and so on, but it would help a lot more if you could open a GH issue for them. As I've noted elsewhere in this thread, a real italic font has been added, and I'm considering what to do about small caps. To me it doesn't look so bad as-is. I don't want Tufte CSS to look like a nicely typeset book, and it would take a lot to convince me to indent the first line
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of new paragraphs. I find that repulsive on the web. Your last paragraph is gold. I wrote something similar about the table style earlier today. For me, I think this project is an exercise in making style choices using a rough template as a guiding star. I too worry that others will focus more on the finger than that star it is pointing at, by slapping this on top of existing content and calling it a day.
In Tufte CSS

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