I’ve been looking into Tufte CSS recently. Tufte CSS -inspired by the teachings of the legendary Edward Tufte¹- provides suggestions and tools to style web articles for improved legibility.

I’ve started to incorporate some of those principles here while still trying to keep the authenticity of my original design. Most of these changes have been in the realm of CSS however the sidenotes feature was a slightly trickier beast.

Jekyll kramdown comes built in with a footnotes feature that I’ve used here for some time. It works pretty well for the most part. The only problem though is -as the names suggests- it displays the notes all the way at the bottom of the articles near the footer.

This whole piece is such a biograpy treasure trove and one I’m filing under the “come back and read in a year” category.

I’m highlighting some of the snippets in particular that really resonated with me:

“This is going to allow people to watch video on our iPods, not just listen to music,” he said. “If we bring this product to market, will you put your television shows on it?” I said yes right away.