Welcome to Blueprint Theme — a Jekyll site that looks like it was designed by an engineer on a Monday morning.
The Design Language
Blueprint’s aesthetic is lifted directly from ISO technical drawings:
- The grid background is a real dual-scale engineering grid — fine lines every 20px, major lines every 100px
- Every card has fold marks in two corners — the tiny angular brackets used to mark folding lines on A3 drawings
- Orange annotations are the “red pencil” callouts used by draftspeople to mark revisions
- The footer is a revision block — the title/author/date table found in the bottom-right corner of every engineering drawing
- Titles use Share Tech Mono — a monospaced font that mimics early pen plotter output
Quick Configuration
blueprint:
grid: "fine" # fine | coarse | none
fold_marks: true # corner tick marks on cards
revision_block: true # technical drawing footer
line_weight: "normal" # light | normal | heavy
Writing Documentation
Blueprint works great for technical writing. Use blockquotes as callout notes:
> This becomes a NOTE: callout annotation.
Use code blocks with language identifiers for syntax highlighting:
```javascript
const result = compute(input);
```
Tag System
Add tags in your post front matter:
tags: [javascript, architecture, tutorial]
Tags are filterable on the /tags/ page and shown as outlined chips on every card.