Scribe
Scribe is designed for essays, journals, reporting, criticism, and other long-form publishing. It keeps listings quiet and gives the full entry a deliberate reading rhythm.
Reading presentation
Titles and prose use a system-serif stack. Navigation, controls, metadata, plugin interfaces, and code remain sans-serif or monospace. Scribe does not offer the shared publication-title font switch because serif typography is part of the theme.
The selected content width controls both the shell and reading area. Theme default keeps Scribe’s narrower measure near 68 characters. Concrete width presets, including an author-space override, replace that measure.
Featured images retain their natural proportions and are not visibly enlarged. A configured public background adds one opaque reading surface to preserve contrast.
Author-space presentation
Scribe can show an author’s display name, display name and handle, or no author identity beside the site title. The default masthead already identifies the author, so the visible Posts by … heading is disabled by default while a semantic page heading remains available to assistive technology.
Authors can enable the visible home heading and, when the Social plugin is active, show their Social profile links beside the masthead identity.
Standalone post images can preserve authored alignment or center images that occupy their own paragraph on a full post. It does not move inline images, pages, galleries, plugin output, or imported figures with explicit alignment.
Navigation and sidebars
Scribe supports the shared primary and footer menu placements, static-page home, fallback page navigation, breadcrumbs, child-page lists, Search, tags, and local syntax highlighting.
Page-tree and plugin sidebars are disabled by default so the reading column has room. Either can be enabled when the site needs persistent navigation or public sidebar fragments.
Previous and next links stay within the post’s publishing space: root posts navigate among root posts, author posts within that author space, and pages do not enter post adjacency.
Print styling removes navigation and controls, uses dark text on white, and preserves useful link destinations. Check long articles in print preview when tables, wide code, or large media are important.