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Fonts, Presets, and Template Codes

How title fonts, body fonts, and the eight structural presets are encoded and swapped.

By Farend • Published August 17, 2026

Every font is self-hosted via @fontsource and imported at the top of src/routes/layout.css, before Tailwind. Always import full weights (and latin-ext subsets) — never the plain latin-400.css files, which drop Bosnian / Croatian characters.

Title and body fonts

Title fonts set --font-primary (headings). Body fonts set --font-secondary (paragraphs, UI chrome).

Pick them on /showcase or encode them in a template code. New sites resolve those shortcodes in scripts/create-site.js.

Structural presets

Presets change shape, not brand colour: radius, shadow, border, and hover language.

Preset Device
Classic Inset mat-frame outline
Simple Zero radius, 2px rules
Contemporary Cards lift on hover
Modern Neon glow edge
Artistic Asymmetric radii + offset block shadow
Editorial Heavy top rule, flat print
Nordic Borderless whisper shadow
Brutalist Zero radius, 3px stroke, hard offset

Colour lives in a separate color set (navy-gold, rose-teal, …) so you can mix a Brutalist frame with Rose & Teal without forking CSS.

On /showcase, Type switches the template-code prefix (TS static, TA Access, TC CMS) so the copied code matches the add-ons you will compose.

Header chrome

Three extra slots sit after button style:

Slot Attribute Options
Header size data-header-size compact (default), comfortable, large
Nav links data-nav-style ghost (default), underline, pill, text
Header surface data-header-surface frost (default), solid, transparent

Large matches a tall header with bigger menu type (logo ~4–4.75rem, nav text-base / min-h-14). Shorter codes still parse; missing chrome slots default to compact / ghost / frost.

Compact codes are T[SCA] plus 10–20 even characters (2 per field). A full 22-character code encodes all ten slots.

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