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The Comic Verse Aesthetic
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The Comic Verse Aesthetic

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

The Annotator's Toolkit
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The Annotator's Toolkit

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

The Hand-Drawn Touch
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The Hand-Drawn Touch

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

Advanced Mind Maps: Styles & Fullscreen
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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
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Visualizing Thoughts with Beautiful Mind Maps

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

Customizing Markdown with Animated Cards
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Cinematic Markdown: Advanced Techniques

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

Cinematic Markdown: Bringing Text to Life
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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.

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.

Engaging Content Designs
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Engaging Content Designs

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

Visual Learning: Styles for Every Context
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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
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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
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Customizing Markdown: Interactive Vector Math

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

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
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Clean & Clear: Minimalist Math Graphs

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

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Custom List Styles

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

Immersive Data: Introducing Fullscreen Charts
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Immersive Data: Introducing Fullscreen Charts

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

Ultimate Tables: Outlines, Fonts & Scroll Effects
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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
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Vox Charts: Handling Complex Data

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

Custom Flowcharts & Mind Maps: No JS Required
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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
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Advanced Tables: Colors, Sketches & Motion

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

Data Storytelling with Vox-Style Charts
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Data Storytelling with Vox-Style Charts

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

Custom Charts Collection: Bar, Line, & Pie
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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
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Tables with a Twist: Hand-Drawn & Animated

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

Data Viz with Personality: Hand-Drawn Bar Charts
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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
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The Classroom Aesthetic: Chalkboards & Whiteboards

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

Image Optimizations Part 2: Advanced Styles & Magic Imports
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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.

The Art of Animated Markdown
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The Art of Animated Markdown

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