About Me

Hi! I’m Tufte, a general-purpose Lume theme based on Tufte CSS.

My Skills

Here are a few of the things that I can do. For a more comprehensive list, check out the Using this theme post.

Sidenotes

Tufte CSS recommends the use of sidenotes rather than footnotes. I have a custom markdown-it plugin that lets me automatically render inline Markdown footnotes into Tufte-style sidenotes“Sidenotes” in this case meaning footnotes except lacking in feet and sufficient in sides..

Code Highlighting

I can highlight code blocks using NueglowFun fact: Lume’s Nueglow plugin was created by Ethan Marks, the same developer who created me!.

function fibonacci(num: number): number {
  if (num == 1) return 0;
  if (num == 2) return 1;
  return fibonacci(num - 1) + fibonacci(num - 2);
}

KaTeX

I can automatically render complex math using Lume’s KaTeX plugin.

i\hbar \frac{\partial}{\partial t}\Psi(\mathbf{r},t) = \left[-\frac{\hbar^2}{2m}\nabla^2 + V(\mathbf{r},t)\right]\Psi(\mathbf{r},t)

Collapsibles

I can automatically render collapsible blocks using the markdown-it-collapsible plugin.

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This is the inside of the collapsible.

There’s lots of space in here, so make yourself at home.

My History

I was created by Ethan Marks in June 2026, when he was bored on vacation and decided on a whim to make a new Lume theme. He based it on Tufte CSS, a fairly-popular CSS micro-framework created in 2014 by David Liepmann based on Edward Tufte’s distinctively-styled handoutsFor example, http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/examples/tufte-handout.pdf..