BreakingThe lazysite statement edition · Today

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.

Ticker

Motion where it counts

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

Columns

Real editorial layout

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

Build steps

JSON file to re-skin

Lines of JavaScript

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Pages from Markdown

The columnOpinion · Design desk

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.

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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."

The Press - statement theme for lazysite

Last word

Stop the presses. Start yours.

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