Markdown, Homebrewery, and Tables

In this post I would like to talk about Tables in the Homebrewery because not only are they useful in homebrews but also because of how the Homebrewery takes a few steps outside of conventional Markdown with a custom extension of the table syntax. I’ll start with the most basic of tables using standard Markdown Markdown, Homebrewery, and Tables

CSS Variables in the Homebrewery

Recently someone on Discord was asking about how CSS Variables work which seemed like a good topic to cover on the blog. CSS Variables are a way to carry a defined property value to other properties across your style sheet. You define your variable with a value, and then you can use that variable elsewhere. CSS Variables in the Homebrewery

2 New Color Palettes

In the last week I have read about and tried two new color palette tools: Poline and oklch.com. Both offer alternative methods of thinking about colors and easy to use tools for exploring those methods.

Fonts in the Homebrewery

The Homebrewery has a few different themes at this point, and each has it’s own set of fonts (or a shared set) which will likely be sufficient for many users but there may be some need to look elsewhere to achieve a particular theme. By the end of this post you should be comfortable importing Fonts in the Homebrewery

Hosting Images

There is a pretty good chance that in the course of creating brews in the Homebrewery you will want to use an image for a monster or item or some other thing. It might be fun to try and limit yourself to only using the two images included in the snippets (the cat warrior and Hosting Images

Planning a new Theme

The design of a new theme for your homebrew or a brand new tabletop game is a big task, one that can seem simple enough until you start getting into the thick of it. Whether you are designing on paper, in the Homebrewery, or in dedicated publishing software such as Affinity or Adobe suites you Planning a new Theme

Page Layout in the Homebrewery

When you first start a new brew on Homebrewery you are presented with a single page with a few defaults, including but not limited to: the page size is US Letter, the margins are 1.4cm (top), 1.9cm (sides), and 1.7cm (bottom), and it has two balanced columns. This setup has it’s basis in the design Page Layout in the Homebrewery