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How do you build a simple beautiful website like this?

It's Jekyll [1] powered static site, here is the source code: https://github.com/sinclairtarget/sinclairtarget.github.io

[1] https://jekyllrb.com/

Thank you!

With HTML and minimal CSS?

Right, how do you build a website that looks like the OP as opposed to like that: http://math.mit.edu/~etingof/

(Not that it's a bad website, it's the most common format in the academia, just an example of a plain HTML website)

You’d get 90% of the way there with just font selection, paragraph spacing, and margins. Maybe colors as well.

Butterick’s typography stuff and tufte will carry you through, and then just steal some more specific detailing from sites like this, gwern, xxyxyz etc

I compiled a list of such sites I was planning to steal details from for my own blog, but never actually followed through on, if you care: https://github.com/setr/pollen-site/

I do, thank you so much!

Just add a bit more CSS then :-)

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