Guide
How a garden looks
Themes, the decorative layer, your accent colour and logo, and the smaller settings that decide how the writing reads.
Two separate things
The settings screen offers a Theme and a Decorative layer, and they are easy to confuse. They are independent, and you can change either without touching the other.
| Theme | Decorative layer | |
|---|---|---|
| What it sets | Typefaces and palette — the whole character of the page | A background motif behind the content |
| How much it changes | Everything | Nothing but the backdrop |
| Available on | Every plan | Some need a paid plan |
Themes
A theme is a complete change of voice: the typefaces, the spacing, the colours, the way a heading sits against the text under it. sizuq ships several, from a plain modern face to a soft rounded one, a period-piece look, a monospaced terminal, and others.
On a garden the theme is yours to set, and every visitor sees the one you chose. On sizuq.com it works the other way round: each reader picks the theme they want, and yours does not follow your writing there.
Your own marks
- An accent colour, used for links, focus rings and the small details that need to stand out.
- A logo — text alone, an uploaded image in place of the text, or a small symbol beside it.
- A favicon, for the browser tab.
- A wordmark, if the name in the header should differ from the site's title, and a separate heading for the menu.
How the writing reads
A handful of smaller settings decide what surrounds a piece of writing rather than what it says.
| Setting | What it decides |
|---|---|
| Reading width | Narrow, comfortable or wide measure for the text column |
| Byline | Author and date, date only, or nothing at all |
| Date format | Relative, exact, both, or hidden |
| Reading time | Whether an estimate appears on articles |
| Menu | The floating pill, or an overlay that takes the screen |
| Footer | Nothing, or a thin line with your wordmark |