About SIGIL

SIGIL is a theme for people who write more than they publish. It is built for long-form essays, research notes, reading logs, and digital gardens — the kind of site that grows into an archive rather than a feed.

Why this exists

Most themes are optimized for scanning. SIGIL is optimized for reading. The body sits at 18px on a 720px measure, line-height 2.05, justified like a printed page. Footnotes become Tufte-style sidenotes on wide screens and collapse to endnotes on narrow ones, so a citation never pulls your eye off the sentence.

The palette is paper and ink, with three accents and nothing else: vermilion for what responds, ink-green for what informs, amber for what glows. A single ∴ marks the end of a section. There is no carousel, no hero banner, no “Get started” button standing between you and the first paragraph.

Who it’s for

You, if you keep notes you intend to reread. A personal essayist, a graduate student’s notebook, a literary archive, a small journal — anyone who would rather read their own site than scroll it. If you post daily and need a feed optimized for engagement, a lighter theme will serve you better, and that is a reasonable choice rather than a failure of the software.

What’s here

This demo doubles as its own documentation. The typography sample exercises every feature — sidenotes, math, diagrams, code, three languages in one family — so you can judge the typesetting before installing. Read Documentation when you are ready. The essays in the archives are here to show how real prose sits on the page.

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