Tufte CSS: Web Styling Framework Based on Edward Tufte's Design Principles
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Summary
Tufte CSS is a web styling framework inspired by Edward Tufte's design principles, featuring simplicity, extensive sidenotes, tight integration of graphics with text, and carefully chosen typography. Created by Dave Liepmann and now maintained as an Edward Tufte project, it draws inspiration from Tufte-LaTeX and R Markdown's Tufte Handout format.
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Tufte's style is known for its simplicity, extensive use of sidenotes, tight integration of graphics with text, and carefully chosen typography
Tufte CSS was created by Dave Liepmann and is now an Edward Tufte project
The original idea was cribbed from Tufte-LaTeX and R Markdown's Tufte Handout format
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