Greatly simplify CSS, dark theme fixes

- Changed: Make all color codes 3-char. Shave off a few bytes.
- Removed: all responsive layout besides the navigation links.
  Everything else should work well at all window sizes without making
  allowances for special cases.
- Removed: redundant CSS rules
- Added: centered images. Left-aligned images in a center-aligned column
  of text break flow.
- Added: dark mode link colors for visited/active. Active link colors
  give better a11y.
- Fix: don't show unnecessary scrollbar for <pre> blocks

Also put more comments in the source to explain why each rule is
important.

All this shrunk the CSS from 1065 bytes to 882 bytes (17% reduction)

Makefile

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ clean:
 	rm -rf $(OUTPUT_DIR) .hintrc-local
 
 lint-css:
-	stylelint $(CSS_DIR)/main.css $(CSS_DIR)/dark.css $(CSS_DIR)/wide.css
+	stylelint $(CSS_DIR)/main.css $(CSS_DIR)/dark.css
 	csslint $(CSS_DIR)
 
 lint: lint-css hugo .hintrc-local

themes/etch-custom/assets/css/dark.css

@@ -1,19 +1,24 @@
 @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
 	html {
-		background: black;
+		background: #000;
-		color: white;
+		color: #fff;
 	}
 
 	a {
-		color: #00b1ed;
+		color: #0af;
 	}
 
-	hr {
+	a:visited {
-		border-color: #5c5c5c;
+		color: #d7c;
+	}
+
+	a:active {
+		color: #f33;
 	}
 
 	pre,
-	code {
+	code,
-		border: 1px solid #333;
+	hr {
+		border-color: #333;
 	}
 }

themes/etch-custom/assets/css/main.css

@@ -1,3 +1,19 @@
+/* CSS that adds the bare minimum for a simple layout */
+
+/* This site's CSS only does 9 things:
+ * 1. sans-serif instead of serif for low-res screens.
+ * 2. Consistent font size; <pre> and <code> shouldn't be smaller.
+ * 3. max text width for readability
+ * 4. single-row nav links widescreen, multiline nav on narrow screens
+ * 5. Bigger "home" link that doubles as a site header
+ * 6. Soft border around code in case it looks too similar to regular
+ *    text, and to show it continue across more than one line
+ * 7. Horizontally center inline images; left-aligned stick out.
+ * 8. Padding fixes so the above changes don't make elements misalign.
+ * 9. dark.css changes a few colors if the browser wants dark mode.
+ * Everything else is browser defaults:
+ * default fonts, non-dark-mode colors, etc.
+ */
 html {
 	font-family: sans-serif;
 	font-size: 16px;
@@ -5,86 +21,85 @@ html {
 }
 
 body {
-	margin: 0 auto;
+	margin: auto;
 	max-width: 50rem;
-	padding: 2rem;
+	padding: 2rem 5%;
 }
 
-header nav {
+/* The posts list doesn't need bullets; simple spacing and repetition
-	display: block;
+ * of the "date + title" format is enough to convey separation
-	padding: 0 0 0.25rem;
+ * between elements.
-}
+ */
-
+.posts {
-header nav ul {
-	font-size: 1.25rem;
-	list-style-type: none;
-	margin: 0;
 	padding: 0;
 }
 
-header nav ul li {
+.posts li {
-	display: block;
-	padding: 0.5rem 0.25rem;
-}
-
-.home {
-	font-size: 1.5rem;
-	font-weight: bold;
-	padding: 0 0.4rem 1rem 0;
-}
-
-/* index.html styles */
-main .posts {
 	list-style-type: none;
-	padding: 0;
-}
-
-main .posts li {
 	margin-bottom: 1rem;
 }
 
-h1 {
+nav ul {
-	font-size: 1.5rem;
+	/* nav links should look more prominent than normal links */
-	line-height: 2rem;
-	margin: 1.5rem 0 1rem;
-}
-
-h2 {
 	font-size: 1.25rem;
-	margin: 1.5rem 0 1rem;
+
+	/* Use whitespace instead of bullets to separate nav from article.
+	   Also avoid top-padding at the top of the page. */
+	list-style-type: none;
+	margin: 0 0 2rem;
+	padding: 0;
 }
 
+/* nav links should be easy to tap with fat fingers */
+nav ul li:not(.home) {
+	padding: 0.5rem 0.25rem;
+}
+
+/* Make the home link a bit bigger to serve as a site heading */
+.home {
+	font-size: 1.5rem;
+	font-weight: bold;
+	padding: 0 0.5rem 0.75rem 0;
+}
+
+/* single-line nav on widescreen, multi-line nav on narrow screens */
+@media (min-width: 32rem) {
+	header nav ul li {
+		display: inline;
+	}
+}
+
+h1,
+h2,
 h3 {
-	font-size: 1.125rem;
+	line-height: 1.25em;
-	margin: 1.5rem 0 1rem;
 }
 
 img {
+	display: block;
 	height: auto;
-	margin: 0 auto;
+	margin: auto;
 	max-width: 100%;
 }
 
 code {
-	font-size: 16px;
+	padding: 0 0.25rem;
-	padding: 0.1rem 0.25rem;
 }
 
 pre,
 code {
-	border: 1px solid #e3e3e3;
+	border: 1px solid #bbb;
 }
 
 pre code {
-	border: none;
+	border: 0; /* don't border each line in a pre block */
+	padding: 0; /* otherwise the first line in a pre block gets indented. */
 }
 
+/* Allow horizontal scroll in a pre block, but don't clip it vertically */
 pre {
-	overflow-x: scroll;
+	/* csslint ignore:start */
-	overflow-y: visible;
+	overflow: auto visible;
-	padding: 0.5rem;
-}
 
-footer {
+	/* csslint ignore:end */
-	margin: 2rem 0;
 }

themes/etch-custom/assets/css/wide.css

@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-@media (min-width: 32rem) {
-	body {
-		padding: 2rem 5%;
-	}
-
-	header nav {
-		display: inline-block;
-	}
-
-	header nav ul li {
-		display: inline;
-		padding: 0 0.25rem;
-	}
-
-	.home {
-		padding-bottom: 0;
-	}
-}

themes/etch-custom/layouts/partials/head.html

@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
 	{{ end -}}
 	{{ $resources := slice -}}
 	{{ $resources = $resources | append (resources.Get "/css/main.css") -}}
-	{{ $resources = $resources | append (resources.Get "/css/wide.css") -}}
 	{{ $dark := .Site.Params.dark | default "auto" -}}
 	{{ if not (eq $dark "off") -}}
 	{{ $resources = $resources | append (resources.Get "css/dark.css" | resources.ExecuteAsTemplate "dark.css" .) -}}