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Lovelace theme

The Lovelace theme is a brutalist, nearly no-CSS archive theme that embraces browser defaults for maximum speed and simplicity. It renders in monospace with minimal styling, and is named after Ada Lovelace.

You can switch to the Lovelace theme—and tweak any of the settings below—from your archive settings.

Configuration

SettingDescriptionDefault
Posts per pageNumber of posts to display per page20
Dark modeMatch your reader's system dark mode preferenceDisabled
Primary heading placementWhere the newsletter name should appear as the page's main heading.Header
Post navigationShow links to the previous and next post at the foot of each archived postEnabled

Changelog

2026-09-21

  • The archive's premium label now reads archival_mode, since email.is_premium now means the email was sent only to paid subscribers (#11721)

2026-09-18

  • Sign-in confirmations now appear as styled, dismissible notifications instead of unstyled page content

2026-09-14

  • The theme now shares the subscribe form's stylesheet with the other themes, so its fields, option pills, switches, sign-in prompts and loading spinner are styled instead of falling back to browser defaults
  • The subscribe page's "Subscribe" heading is now translated, instead of staying in English on newsletters set to another language
  • The newsletter description now uses the theme's description styling, and no longer emits an empty paragraph above itself
  • Removed two unmatched closing tags from the subscribe page's markup

2026-09-13

  • Fixed archive pagination dropping the search query, so "next" now stays within the search results

2026-09-03

  • Added click-to-zoom on archive images, which the theme had no styling for
  • Portal pages now inherit Lovelace's monospace type and square corners

2026-09-02

  • Fixed the subscription confirmation dialog appearing as floating, duplicated text

2026-08-12

  • Stopped the theme's generic button styling from overriding the subscriber portal's own buttons

2026-08-11

  • Post navigation now keeps the newer and older links on one line when both titles fit, and wraps to two lines only when they do not

2026-06-30

  • Added previous/next post navigation at the foot of each archived post, with a post_navigation setting to toggle it

2026-06-18

  • Removed the is_publicly_archived template variable; custom templates should use archival_mode == "enabled" instead
  • Removed the unused has_bluesky_embeds template variable

2026-05-28

  • Gated archive premium label on active paid subscriptions

2026-05-15

  • Added configurable H1 placement

2026-04-23

  • Moved accent color from general to email settings

2026-02-06

  • Changed newsletter name from h1 to h2 on subscribe page to fix duplicate h1 tags (the header already contains an h1)