Tufte-Python is a Python port of the original tufte-jekyll theme, which itself is a natural extension of the work done by Edward Tufte and his collaborators on GitHub. They created a CSS file that allows web writers to use the same simple and elegant style available from Tufte’s published materials.

This port swaps out Ruby, Jekyll, and Liquid for Python, Jinja2, and Python-Markdown while keeping the same look and content-authoring shortcodes (sidenotes, margin notes, epigraphs, and so on) the Jekyll version implements.

It also includes popular color themes like Solarized (the default), Dracula, and several Gradianto variants. They can be selected in the config.yml file. Most themes are accessible and come along with a dark mode that follows system preferences with a manual switch available.

Note that this is a full-width layout. This was set with "layout: full-width" in the YAML front matter for this page located in about.md. In this layout style, sidenote and marginnote do not display.