Sample — Typography for English Pages
This is a sample post written entirely in English. The site aims to feel like reading a book on an e-reader: a plain white page, a serif face, generous leading, and a measure of roughly sixty-five characters per line. When a post declares lang: en in its frontmatter, the typography quietly switches to conventions that suit Latin text.
Paragraphs follow book convention here as well: no blank space between them, with the first line indented instead. Following another old convention, the opening paragraph and any paragraph directly after a heading begin flush left, as you can see throughout this page.
How headings are set
Headings stay modest — slightly larger and bolder than the body, separated by white space rather than rules or ornaments. Letter-spacing is kept nearly neutral for Latin text, because wide tracking that flatters Japanese kanji quickly becomes tiring in English prose.
Images behave exactly as on Japanese pages: the width always matches the text column, so photographs and illustrations line up with the margins of the prose.
Long words are hyphenated automatically where the browser supports it, which keeps justified text from developing rivers of white space on narrow phone screens.
A scene break is marked with an asterisk, just as on the Japanese pages. Quotations are set like this:
A quotation is indented, ruled on the left, and printed a shade lighter than the body text.
Lists work as expected.
- Things I have been thinking about
- Things I have studied and want to share
- Illustrations I drew, photographs I took
This file lives at src/content/posts/sample-english.md. Delete it once you are happy with the design.