Markdown Utilities

Tools for editing, rendering and exporting Markdown files.

Markdown Setup

On Mac: Atom for editing, Marked for rendering. Markdown Tables generator for table-heavy documents.
On iOS/Android: iA Writer.

Atom is well-suited to Markdown out of the box, but a couple extra packages make it more convenient:

• document-outline
• folding-markdown
• markdown-table-editor
• smart-quotes-plus
• wordcount

Stylesheets

Can be added to Marked through Preferences/Style.

Chromatophore 1-2

• Colorful style for lightweight content
• Dark mode isn’t actually darker, but an alternate color scheme
• Fonts: Reforma

Log

• A barebones log style based on the Tetra style
• Fonts: Milkman, iA Writer Mono, iA Writer Quattro

Tetra

• High legibility, low strain style for long-form reading
• Good print support
• Dark mode support
• Fonts: iA Writer Mono, iA Writer Quattro

UXASF1

• Sans-serif style, with big text baseline and even bigger titles; used to render UXA documents
• Dark mode support
• Fonts: Inter, iA Writer Mono

Just Images

• Hides everything but images; for reference or print
• Dark mode support

Just Tables

• Hides everything but tables; for reference or print
• Dark mode support

Older Stylesheets

• Not updated since 2015
• Godspeed (fonts: Source Sans, Brush Up Too, $)
• New Modern (fonts: Open Sans)
• Torpedo (fonts: Open Sans, Cinta, $)
• Vostok (fonts: PT Serif, PT Sans and PT Sans Narrow)

Resources

Sample documents for development and testing.

• Short Specimen: sample document of common Markdown tags; used to make the previews for this readme
• Long Specimen: sample document of almost all MultiMarkdown tags, for more exhaustive work. The first part prints tags for completeness check, the second one prints long form text for typographic rythm check.

Previews are processed (e.g. cropped) in a Figma document.