Is there an easy way to change the theme? about distill HOT 6 CLOSED

I think everyone has different opinions about appropriate font sizes. One reason that smaller sizes are used is to make the text diminutive relative to the body. It's certainly all a bit subjective. Radix is an opinionated format (based on Distill, which has very strong opinions as well) and the choices made won't sit well for everyone all the time.

Since there are literally dozens of style elements to tweak providing YAML options for each of them is not realistic. The best way to handle this is CSS (which can pretty much allow you to do anything you want with the styling and then re-use the changes across documents). For example, you can add this inline css chunk to your Rmd to change the fonts in the table of contents:

```{css}
.d-toc-header {
  font-size: 0.9rem;
}

.d-toc {
  font-size: 1.0rem
}
``` 

In terms of numbered sections, the problem here is that pandoc wants to number sections using level 1 headers and Distill/Radix documents styles are based on using level 2 headers for major document sections. I've played with trying to resolve this tension and it's frustratingly difficult to overcome.

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No there isn't a way to change the theme. Part of the idea of Radix is to enforce a uniform theme so that it's easy to aggregate lots of articles written in different places together (e.g. for a blog or journal). This is philosophically a bit like the https://medium.com blogging service.

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So those that don't want to deal with css are stuck with the default rendering of very tiny text?

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Could you show me an example of the tiny text? By web standards the default font size is larger on purpose for readability, e.g.

But perhaps there are certain browsers or parts of what is rendered where the text gets tiny. If you can just provide some context I can give a better answer.

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The text size in the TOC is way too small (also in the citation part). I had also seen the text in the body render as small as the TOC (even on a 20" screen). Ideally the font size in the TOC should be the same as in the body.

I also would like to see numbered headers as supported in the standard knitr and rmarkdown html formats.

It would also be nicer if the body text column was a bit wider - yest this would be fine on 13" laptops and mobile devices, but for anything bigger it looks very squished considering how much white space is on either side.

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@JulianSpagnuolo @znmeb we now have a theming system for distill and docs are here ✨

https://rstudio.github.io/distill/website.html#theming

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