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Design System

Customizing Book Cards

A showcase of the versatile design system for educational resources.

The Comic Verse Aesthetic
design

The Comic Verse Aesthetic

Recreating the bold, high-contrast typography style of modern digital comic platforms.

The Annotator's Toolkit
design

The Annotator's Toolkit

A complete guide to digital emphasis using circles, highlighters, and strokes.

2025 Market Report: Visualized
data

2025 Market Report: Visualized

Using hand-drawn emphasis to bring dry data to life.

The Hand-Drawn Touch
design

The Hand-Drawn Touch

Adding natural, human-like emphasis to digital text with stroke underlines.

Mastering Math Styling: Part 2
astro

Mastering Math Styling: Part 2

Exploring advanced styles like light chalk, notebook mode, and on-scroll animations.

Mastering Math Styling in Markdown
astro

Mastering Math Styling in Markdown

A comprehensive guide to using our new Astro components for beautiful, animated mathematical content.

Advanced Mind Maps: Styles & Fullscreen
design

Advanced Mind Maps: Styles & Fullscreen

Take your visualizations to the next level with custom styles, fullscreen mode, and theme adaptation.

Visualizing Thoughts with Beautiful Mind Maps
design

Visualizing Thoughts with Beautiful Mind Maps

How to create stunning, interactive mind maps in your Markdown content using Markmap.

Customizing Markdown with Animated Cards
design

Customizing Markdown with Animated Cards

Learn how to transform standard markdown content into beautiful, animated cards with custom styling for text, images, diagrams, and more.

Enhancing the Learner Experience with Custom Styles & Animations
design

Enhancing the Learner Experience with Custom Styles & Animations

A deep dive into creating engaging educational content using custom CSS, animations, and Astro components in your Markdown.

Creating Interactive Flowcharts & Mind Maps in Markdown
design

Creating Interactive Flowcharts & Mind Maps in Markdown

Learn how to visualize complex ideas using Mermaid.js directly in your Markdown content, styled to match your site's aesthetic.

Interactive Mindmaps with Animations
design

Interactive Mindmaps with Animations

Explore how to bring your documentation to life with animated, interactive mindmaps that respond to user input and scrolling.

Markdown Cards Part 2: Scribbles & Flips
design

Markdown Cards Part 2: Scribbles & Flips

Taking markdown cards to the next level with hand-drawn styles, smoother animations, and dual-sided content.

Markdown as Playing Cards
design

Markdown as Playing Cards

Turn your documentation into a deck of interactive, flippable playing cards. A fun way to present bite-sized information.

Markmap: Now with Dark Mode Support
design

Markmap: Now with Dark Mode Support

Our interactive mind maps now automatically adapt to your system theme. See it in action.

Cinematic Markdown: Advanced Techniques
design

Cinematic Markdown: Advanced Techniques

Take your storytelling further with glitch effects, 3D shadows, and kinetic typography.

Cinematic Markdown: Bringing Text to Life
design

Cinematic Markdown: Bringing Text to Life

Learn how to use cinematic animations and hand-drawn styles to create immersive reading experiences in your Astro blog.

Astro

Deploying Astro to GitHub Pages

A complete guide to publishing your Astro site using GitHub Actions.

Mastering Markdown Styling in Astro
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Mastering Markdown Styling in Astro

A comprehensive guide to styling text, headings, and layouts using Markdown, MDX, and HTML/CSS in your Astro blog.

The Probability Lab
Interactive

The Probability Lab

A hands-on playground. Roll dice, flip coins, and deal cards to test your luck and intuition.

Statistics

Visual Anchors: Complex Systems

From the social web to the law of large numbers. Simulating chaos and connection with our advanced visual tools.

Statistics

Visual Anchors: Real World Analysis

Exploring Salaries, Correlations, and A/B Testing with our final set of visual anchors: BoxPlots, Heatmaps, and Z-Tests.

Statistics

Advanced Anchors: Visualizing Complexity

From the chaos of the Galton Board to the logic of Bayes' trees. Seeing advanced statistical concepts in action.

Statistics

Visual Anchors: Data in the Real World

Demonstrating Venn Diagrams, Scatter Plots, and Combinatorics with practical, real-world examples.

Statistics

The Plan: Anchoring Stats 2 with Visuals

Our roadmap for integrating interactive visual anchors like Dice, Urns, and Graphs into the Mathematics 2 textbook.

Visualizing Probability: A Showcase of Statistical Anchors
Statistics

Visualizing Probability: A Showcase of Statistical Anchors

Exploring real-world probability concepts using our new interactive 3D anchors: Dice, Coins, Urns, and Distributions.

The Thief's Story: A Visual Analysis
literature

The Thief's Story: A Visual Analysis

Decoding Ruskin Bond's tale of trust, betrayal, and redemption using data visualization.

Engaging Content Designs
design

Engaging Content Designs

How to use highlights, hand-drawn circles, and marginal notes to make your articles pop.

Astro

Bring Your Text to Life: Hand-Drawn Scribble Effects in Astro

Learn how to add personality to your site with animated, hand-drawn text components that wiggle, pop, and draw themselves on scroll.

Astro

Monetizing Astro: Integrating Google AdSense without Compromising UX

A comprehensive guide to adding ads to your Astro site while maintaining perfect Lighthouse scores and visual stability.

Astro

Indexing GitHub Pages: The Subdomain Guide

How to verify and index your Astro site when hosting on a GitHub project page.

Astro

Getting Discovered: Indexing Your Astro Site

A step-by-step guide to generating sitemaps and submitting them to Google.

Astro

Typing Animations Part 2: Syntax Highlighting

How to animate code blocks while preserving beautiful syntax highlighting.

Astro

Bringing Code to Life: Typing Animations

Learn how to add engaging typewriter effects to your code blocks.

Astro

Embedding Maps and Graphs

A guide to adding beautiful, animated maps and mathematical graphs to your Astro blog.

Visual Learning: Styles for Every Context
design

Visual Learning: Styles for Every Context

Choosing the right visual style to match your content's tone, from hand-drawn sketches to clean, minimal diagrams.

Advanced Markdown: Custom Graphs & Headings
design

Advanced Markdown: Custom Graphs & Headings

Going beyond basic text with colored headings and interactive, hand-drawn vector graphs using Astro components.

Customizing Markdown: Interactive Vector Math
design

Customizing Markdown: Interactive Vector Math

A showcase of how we use custom Astro components to enhance mathematical content, featuring vectors and inner product spaces.

education

Math & Problem Solving Lists

Demonstrating new list variants designed for educational content, problem solving, and quizzes.

Artistic Math: Beyond the Grid
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Artistic Math: Beyond the Grid

Bringing warmth and personality to mathematical visualization with new organic styles: Paper, Pencil, Scribble, and Stroke.

Clean & Clear: Minimalist Math Graphs
math

Clean & Clear: Minimalist Math Graphs

Focus on the data with our new minimalist aesthetic for mathematical visualizations.

Mastering Math Views: Grids & Complex Equations
math

Mastering Math Views: Grids & Complex Equations

Precise control over your mathematical visualizations with custom grids, axis labels, and KaTeX integration.

Analyzing Functions: Intersections and Critical Points
math

Analyzing Functions: Intersections and Critical Points

Going beyond simple plots: Visualizing multiple functions, intersections, and derivatives.

design

Custom List Styles

A showcase of different list styling variants available via the List component.

Interactive & Compact Mind Maps
astro

Interactive & Compact Mind Maps

Explore our new interactive fullscreen mode and compact 'perfect' styles for dense information.

Immersive Data: Introducing Fullscreen Charts
data-viz

Immersive Data: Introducing Fullscreen Charts

Give your users the big picture with our new toggleable fullscreen mode for Vox-style charts.

Advanced Mind Maps
astro

Advanced Mind Maps

Take your diagrams to the next level with horizontal layouts, custom colors, and organic styles.

Ultimate Tables: Outlines, Fonts & Scroll Effects
astro

Ultimate Tables: Outlines, Fonts & Scroll Effects

The final chapter. Sketchy outlines, custom fonts, and animations that react to your scroll.

Vox Charts: Handling Complex Data
data-viz

Vox Charts: Handling Complex Data

Techniques for presenting dense, multi-dimensional data without losing the narrative.

Custom Flowcharts & Mind Maps: No JS Required
astro

Custom Flowcharts & Mind Maps: No JS Required

Create beautiful, hand-drawn diagrams using only CSS and Astro components. No external libraries needed.

Advanced Tables: Colors, Sketches & Motion
astro

Advanced Tables: Colors, Sketches & Motion

Take your tables further with vibrant colors, sketchy styles, and dynamic entrance animations.

Data Storytelling with Vox-Style Charts
data-viz

Data Storytelling with Vox-Style Charts

How to create compelling, animated data visualizations inspired by Vox video essays.

Custom Charts Collection: Bar, Line, & Pie
astro

Custom Charts Collection: Bar, Line, & Pie

A comprehensive guide to using our new custom chart components with hand-drawn styles and scroll animations.

Tables with a Twist: Hand-Drawn & Animated
astro

Tables with a Twist: Hand-Drawn & Animated

Ditch the boring grids. Learn how to style your tables with personality.

Custom Bar Charts Part 3: Advanced Interactions
astro

Custom Bar Charts Part 3: Advanced Interactions

Exploring advanced interactions and animations for our custom bar charts.

Advanced Hand-Drawn Charts: Sketchy Styles & Scroll Animations
astro

Advanced Hand-Drawn Charts: Sketchy Styles & Scroll Animations

Take your data visualization to the next level with sketchy outlines and scroll-triggered animations.

Data Viz with Personality: Hand-Drawn Bar Charts
astro

Data Viz with Personality: Hand-Drawn Bar Charts

Learn how to create unique, hand-drawn bar charts using our custom Astro component.

The Classroom Aesthetic: Chalkboards & Whiteboards
astro

The Classroom Aesthetic: Chalkboards & Whiteboards

Learn how to style your content like a classroom board with hand-drawn chalk and marker annotations.

Typing Math: Animated Equations & Styles
astro

Typing Math: Animated Equations & Styles

Learn how to create typing animations for your math equations and apply new styles like Chalkboard.

Bringing Text and Math to Life
astro

Bringing Text and Math to Life

Learn how to add typing animations to your text and style your KaTeX equations with animations and colors.

Image Optimizations Part 2: Advanced Styles & Magic Imports
astro

Image Optimizations Part 2: Advanced Styles & Magic Imports

Take your images further with Polaroid, 3D, and Brutalist styles, plus organic shapes and auto-imports.

Beautiful Math: Hand-Drawn & Animated Equations
math

Beautiful Math: Hand-Drawn & Animated Equations

See how we transform standard LaTeX equations into colorful, hand-drawn, and animated mathematical art using KaTeX and CSS.

Mastering Image Optimizations in Astro (Part 1)
astro

Mastering Image Optimizations in Astro (Part 1)

Learn the basics of using optimized images with custom hand-drawn styles and animations in your Markdown content.

Express Yourself: Styled Emojis in Markdown
emoji

Express Yourself: Styled Emojis in Markdown

Learn how to use and style emojis in your Astro blog posts, including custom sizes and animations.

Sketching with Code: Hand-Drawn Diagrams
mermaid

Sketching with Code: Hand-Drawn Diagrams

Discover how we style Mermaid diagrams to look like colorful, hand-drawn sketches that adapt to light and dark modes.

Visualizing Ideas with Mermaid Diagrams
mermaid

Visualizing Ideas with Mermaid Diagrams

Learn how to embed flowcharts, sequence diagrams, and more directly into your Markdown using Mermaid.js.

Magic Imports: Using Components Without Importing Them
astro

Magic Imports: Using Components Without Importing Them

Streamline your Markdown workflow by making Astro components globally available in your MDX files.

Visualizing Data with Embedded Charts
data-visualization

Visualizing Data with Embedded Charts

Learn how to embed interactive, responsive charts directly into your Markdown content using Astro and Chart.js.

Powering Up Markdown with Astro Components
astro

Powering Up Markdown with Astro Components

How to use reusable Astro components to create interactive content without writing raw HTML.

The Art of Animated Markdown
css

The Art of Animated Markdown

Transforming static text into living, breathing content with CSS and creative markdown.

mathematics

The Mathematics of Cities

Understanding urban dynamics through the lens of mathematical models and scaling laws.

civic-tech

The Future of Civic Tech

Exploring how technology is reshaping civic engagement and urban planning through data visualization and open dialogue.

intro

Welcome to SimpleAryan

This is a sample blog post to demonstrate the blog functionality.