Notes from building the theme.
Design decisions, trade-offs, and the occasional walkthrough.
- Design notes
- Guides
- Tagged and filterable
Every markdown element, on one page
A reference article that exercises every element Liftoff styles. Each section shows the markdown source first, then how it renders.
Shipping a docs site in an afternoon
A start-to-finish walkthrough: module setup, content structure, navigation, and the two decisions that cost the most time later.
Icons without a build step
Why Liftoff fetches icons from Iconify at build time instead of shipping a font or a sprite sheet.
Multilingual from day one
Setting up a second language costs one config block now and a weekend later.
A performance budget you can actually keep
Three numbers worth defending on a static site, and what Liftoff spends them on.
Dark mode that respects the system
Liftoff opens in the visitor's preferred scheme and only remembers a choice once it is made.