PilcrowTypographic blog

Pilcrow is a typography-first Astro theme for writers who publish essays, notes, and newsletters. It builds to static HTML and stays out of the way: hierarchy comes from type, measure, and spacing, not from boxes and color.

How it reads

• Newsreader for text at about 65 characters a line, Inter for the interface, JetBrains Mono for code
• One rubric red for links, the pilcrow mark, and a drop cap at the start of each post
• Footnotes and tables, dark mode, works down to 360px wide

In the free edition

• Pages: Home, About, Blog, Contact, Privacy, Terms, and 404
• Five home page sections
• Blog with tags, pagination, RSS, sitemap, Open Graph metadata, and JSON-LD
• Posts in MDX, with type-safe content collections
• A contact form through Web3Forms, an analytics snippet, and UI strings in English, Korean, and Hungarian

What Pro adds

• Footnotes move into the margin as sidenotes on wide screens
• 20 home page sections to build the front page from
• Pages: Pricing, Features, Team, Newsletter, Changelog, Docs, Work, Cookies, and Accessibility
• Blog: authors, series, table of contents, reading time, related posts, callouts, and a copy-code button
• Any section component can be dropped into the body of a post or case study, at full width
• Pagefind search, and localized routes with a language switcher and hreflang
• A generated Open Graph image for every post
• Buttondown or Kit newsletter sign-up, Giscus comments, and in-page form submission
• Four color presets and three font pairings

Under the hood

• Astro 7 and Tailwind CSS v4, no client-side JavaScript by default, Lighthouse 95+
• Static output: deploy to Cloudflare Pages, Vercel, or Netlify
• Everything site-specific lives in one file, src/config.ts
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