New Theme

Jun 4, 2025

After about 10 years of the previous retro-inspired red/black color scheme, I've decided to ditch it in favour of something less obtrusive and more polished. The previous theme was in fact the result of a handful of different styles mixed together, which gave the impression of something uncoordinated and deeply dissonant. Over the years, I've tried to introduce multiple layout updates^[1] to fix the mess this website had become; however, at a certain point, it was just too much: a complete site redesign was inevitable.

The New Design §

This new theme strictly follows a finite set of design rules I've compiled myself^[2]. It doesn't introduce any external fancy font, it doesn't try to mix together awkward combination of colors and doesn't try to do too much, it just provides the content in a minimal and distraction-less layout.

The theme relies around the following colors:


:root {
    --background: #0f0e0e;
    --text: #ece3da;
    --accent: #51c2b7;
    --unfocused: #727272;
}

That is:

A darkish background color(#0f0e0e);
A yellowish foreground color(#ece3da);
A cyan accent color(#51c2b7);
An unfocused color for borders(#727272).

The theme is written in pure CSS without using any additional dependencies besides highlight.js for syntax highlighting and katex for \(\LaTeX\) rendering.

General Cleanup §

Besides the site redesign, I've decided to remove some old articles I've wrote years ago when I was a teen and that I no longer like to show on my website. These articles were badly written and provided little to no information; therefore, nothing of value was lost. I've also rebuilt the RSS feed from scratch by limiting it to the latest three posts, which seems to me a proper amount of articles to show up on a feed reader.

Right now the layout should have reached a fairly stable state. Still, I will actively monitor it on the next few days to try to spot any minor bugs I might be have left behind. If you want to suggest a fix, you know how to reach me.

[1]: For example, by designing a proper navbar or by limiting myself from introducing too many external fonts. ↩

[2]: Most of them can just be summarized using the KISS principle. ↩