First impressions of the new theme

After switching to Congo, the first thing you notice is that everything just works. Dark mode, language switching, navigation — nothing broke, and it all looks clean and stylish.

One small detail #

There’s something that has always puzzled me: why do the vast majority of themes default to left-aligned text? Why? Just… why?! Oh, for the love of — my inner perfectionist suffers every time I see a crisp edge on the left and a ragged, uneven zigzag of line endings on the right. What’s stopping us from setting proper rules and boundaries for text blocks? It looks really sloppy — especially on wide screens where the lines are long and the unevenness is hard to miss.

Justified text makes everything feel tighter and more intentional — like a book or a well-typeset magazine. Sure, justify has its quirks with hyphenation, but… justified alignment is undoubtedly my choice.

How to fix it #

Congo provides an assets/css/custom.css file for user styles — it’s loaded automatically and isn’t touched during theme updates. A single rule is all it takes:

.prose {
  text-align: justify;
}

Done. Text is now justified, and the next Congo update won’t break anything.