=== Quietype ===

Contributors: odiethemes
Requires at least: 6.5
Tested up to: 6.8
Requires PHP: 7.4
Stable tag: 1.0.0
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Tags: blog, one-column, full-site-editing, block-patterns, block-styles, custom-colors, custom-logo, custom-menu, editor-style, featured-images, sticky-post, threaded-comments, translation-ready, wide-blocks, accessibility-ready

A reading-first block theme for essays, newsletters and long-form personal blogs.

== Description ==

Quietype is a block theme built around one question: is the sentence easy to read?

One column. No sidebar. A measure of roughly sixty-eight characters, a 1.7 line height, and a fluid type scale that runs from a 13px caption to a 52px display size and resizes with the viewport rather than snapping at breakpoints. Headings, captions and metadata each have a job, and none of them compete with the body text.

The palette is six colours, and every one of them is checked against WCAG AA at body size. Because the theme refers to those colours through their preset custom properties rather than hard-coding hex values, a reader whose system is set to dark mode gets the dark palette automatically - on the front end and inside the editor canvas.

Nothing is loaded from a remote server. The theme uses system serif, sans and monospace stacks, so there is no Google Fonts request, no icon CDN, and no GDPR paperwork. There are no bundled plugins, no upsells and no tracking.

Built for essayists, newsletter writers, critics, researchers, and anyone whose site is mostly words.

== Features ==

* Full site editing: templates and template parts editable in the Site Editor.
* Fluid typography via clamp(), declared in theme.json.
* Automatic light and dark colour schemes, both AA compliant.
* Three duotone presets for featured images: Ink and paper, Forest and paper, Sepia.
* Four block styles: Hairline separator, Asterism separator, Framed image, Plain quote.
* Three block patterns: Essay opening, Section break, Quotation with source.
* Skip link, visible keyboard focus, semantic landmarks, reduced-motion support.
* Print stylesheet that strips navigation and expands link URLs.

== Installation ==

1. In your WordPress dashboard, go to Appearance > Themes and click Add New.
2. Search for Quietype, then click Install and Activate.
3. Go to Appearance > Editor to edit templates, or Appearance > Editor > Styles to change colours and type.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= How do I turn dark mode off? =

Dark mode follows the reader's operating system setting. To disable it, add a child theme, or use Appearance > Editor > Styles > Additional CSS to override the six colour custom properties inside the prefers-color-scheme block.

= Can I make the text wider? =

Yes. Appearance > Editor > Styles > Layout lets you change the content width. The default of 42rem is deliberate: it produces a measure of about sixty-eight characters at the default body size, which is the range most reading research points to.

= Does the theme load any fonts? =

No. It uses system font stacks only. Nothing is requested from a third-party server.

== Changelog ==

= 1.0.0 - 2026 =
* Initial release.

== Copyright ==

Quietype WordPress Theme, (C) 2026 Odie Themes.
Quietype is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 or later.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

== Resources ==

This theme bundles no third-party images, fonts, icons or scripts. All typefaces are system font stacks resolved by the reader's own device.
