More ways to customize your archives

Change fonts, colors, and more without touching CSS.

Justin Duke
Justin Duke
January 20, 2026

Hot on the heels of our two new themes, we've expanded the ways you can customize your archive pages without writing any CSS.

The big one: custom fonts. You can now pick a primary font (for headings and titles) and a secondary font (for body text) from a curated list of web-safe options. Want your archives to feel more editorial? Try a serif. Prefer something cleaner? Go with a sans-serif. It's all in your archive settings.

We've also added controls for things like accent colors, link styling, and spacing — the kind of tweaks that previously required digging into CSS.

This is part of a larger effort to make archives more flexible for everyone. Our goal is to keep expanding these options so that CSS becomes a power-user tool rather than a prerequisite. You should be able to make your archives feel like yours without needing to know what font-family means.

Of course, if you do want to drop down to CSS, that's still there. We're not taking anything away — just adding a nicer on-ramp.

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More ways to customize your archives