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, palette and the treatment of surfaces — 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.
In the neutral liquid treatment, content cards let the writing or page beneath remain perceptible through a slight optical softening, without leaving either surface visually bare. Their colour and four-sided contour still follow light, dim or dark. A surface becomes more occluding only when content moves behind it, and gains a stronger edge only when it floats. This keeps static navigation, nested theme choices, dropdowns, dialogs and brief confirmations recognisably one material without forcing them to use one opacity.
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 |