New Stylish Style

[ninetydegrees]

I've made a simple style to make reading works on AO3 even easier than it already is (in my opinion, of course). You can choose the font type and size, the leading (vertical space between lines) the text alignment and the size of the side margins. I debated over adding text and background colors too but I feel these fit better with a full site skin. My style only applies to work text.

If you're interested, you can find it here. Feedback and suggestions are welcome!

Note: Stylish is a Mozilla Firefox extension but it can also work with other browsers.

Comments

[anatsuno]

Cool! I will play with it :D

Forgive me for asking, but, since the AO3 has a native system to make skins and add them to the system, why choose an external solution?

[ninetydegrees]

I don't know the AO3 skin system very well but it seems to me it's limited to CSS so I wouldn't be able to let you choose your options as I can on Stylish. I would have to make x styles for each possible combination.

ETA: btw readability settings and a print-friendly mode are currently the only things AO3 glaringly lack imo.

[anatsuno]

aah, right. the combinatorics change everything, yeah. Hm.

[ninetydegrees]

Also, one thing I've just realized by poking around is that AO3 doesn't have multi-skin support so if people wanted to use this as a skin they couldn't use anything other skin. :/

[anatsuno]

Right, yeah, a skin has to cover everything in one go. :(

[cesy]

That's about to change, actually - the next deploy includes major changes to the skinning system. It will still only be CSS, but you'll be able to layer skins on top of each other. There'll be a news post about it fairly soon.

[ninetydegrees]

Cool! Thanks for the heads up, Cesy. I'll publish some of my styles over there too then.