Breaking

Static sites
just got loud.

PRESS turns a lazysite site into a front page - a heavy masthead, hard black rules and a news-red accent that refuses to be ignored.

What — a statement theme.
How — one layout, one theme of tokens.
Why — because plain Markdown deserves a headline.

Breaking
No build step required • Re-skin from one JSON file • Pure CSS, twelve lines of JS • Print layout, web speed • No build step required • Re-skin from one JSON file • Pure CSS, twelve lines of JS • Print layout, web speed •  No build step required • Re-skin from one JSON file • Pure CSS, twelve lines of JS • Print layout, web speed • No build step required • Re-skin from one JSON file • Pure CSS, twelve lines of JS • Print layout, web speed • 

The desk

Three reasons it hits.

Masthead

A front page, not a form

A heavy Anton masthead, an edition line and hard rules frame the page like newsprint - instant authority.

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Ticker

Motion where it counts

A breaking-news ticker scrolls the highlights; the rest stays still, the way print should. Reduced-motion safe.

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Columns

Real editorial layout

CSS multi-column type, drop caps and column rules give long reads the rhythm of a printed feature.

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0
Build steps
1
JSON file to re-skin
12
Lines of JavaScript
Pages from Markdown

The column

Newspapers solved information design a century before the web existed. Columns, rules, a strict hierarchy of headline and deck and body - all engineered so the eye knows exactly where to go. PRESS borrows that grammar wholesale.

The result is a static lazysite site that reads like a broadsheet: dense where it should be, loud where it matters, and quiet enough to actually read. The same Markdown you already write flows into real columns with drop caps and rules.

And because every colour and typeface is a token in one JSON file, the whole paper re-skins in a sentence - from a tabloid red to an austere mono, from a zine to a journal - without a line of CSS.

"Plain Markdown deserves a headline."

Last word

Stop the presses. Start yours.

Activate the press layout and theme, write your Markdown, and go to print.