/* ========================================================================= THE GRIMOIRE — two readings of one body. Mundus = the vertical scroll WordPress already renders (the record). Mythica = the same content repaginated into facing spreads (the codex). The class is the Sight: .mundus | .mythica. Nothing about the post is duplicated — the reader below reads the .entry-content DOM and lays it out differently. This stylesheet dresses both states. ========================================================================= */ :root { --ink: #eae4d3; --ink-dim: #b7bac8; --gold: #e8c476; --gold-bright:#f4dfa8; --parch: #f3ead6; /* the page — warm vellum */ --parch-edge: #d9c9a4; --page-ink: #2a2216; /* text on the page */ --page-faint: #6b5c40; --night: #070b1a; --serif: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, "Book Antiqua", Georgia, serif; --sans: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, sans-serif; } * { box-sizing: border-box; } html, body { margin: 0; padding: 0; } body { font-family: var(--serif); color: var(--ink); background: #0d1020; } /* ============================ theme chrome ============================ */ .site-header { position: sticky; top: 0; z-index: 30; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: space-between; padding: 16px 28px; background: #0b0e1c; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(150,160,200,.14); } .site-brand { font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: .12em; color: var(--gold-bright); } .site-nav { font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: .06em; color: var(--ink-dim); } .site-footer { padding: 26px; text-align: center; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: .08em; color: var(--ink-dim); background: #0b0e1c; border-top: 1px solid rgba(150,160,200,.14); } /* the footer + theme header are Mundus furniture; the codex is full-bleed */ body.mythica .site-footer { display: none; } /* ============================= the Sight ============================= */ .sight { position: fixed; z-index: 60; top: 74px; right: 24px; display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 6px; padding: 6px 8px 6px 14px; border-radius: 999px; border: 1px solid rgba(150,160,200,.18); background: rgba(10,14,28,.82); backdrop-filter: blur(10px); -webkit-backdrop-filter: blur(10px); } .sight-label { font-size: 10px; letter-spacing: .26em; text-transform: uppercase; color: var(--ink-dim); margin-right: 4px; } .sight-btn { font-family: var(--serif); font-size: 13px; color: var(--ink-dim); display: inline-flex; align-items: center; gap: 6px; padding: 6px 13px; border: 0; border-radius: 999px; background: transparent; cursor: pointer; transition: color .3s, background .3s, box-shadow .3s; } .sight-btn .sight-glyph { font-size: 14px; opacity: .8; } .sight-btn:hover { color: var(--ink); } .sight-btn.is-on { color: var(--night); background: linear-gradient(180deg, var(--gold-bright), var(--gold)); box-shadow: 0 0 16px rgba(232,196,118,.35); } .sight-btn.is-on .sight-glyph { opacity: 1; } /* ========================================================================= MUNDUS — the vertical reading. The record as WordPress renders it. ========================================================================= */ .entry { max-width: 760px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 54px 22px 40px; } .entry-content { color: #d8d3c4; } .entry-title { font-weight: 400; font-size: 40px; line-height: 1.12; letter-spacing: .01em; color: var(--gold-bright); margin: 0 0 6px; } .entry-meta { font-style: italic; color: var(--ink-dim); margin: 0 0 30px; font-size: 15px; } .entry-content h2 { font-weight: 400; font-size: 25px; color: var(--gold); margin: 40px 0 12px; letter-spacing: .01em; } .entry-content p { font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.72; margin: 0 0 20px; } .entry-content strong { color: #efe7d3; font-weight: 600; } .wp-block-image { margin: 0 0 28px; } .wp-block-image img { width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; border-radius: 3px; } .wp-block-image figcaption { font-style: italic; font-size: 13.5px; color: var(--ink-dim); text-align: center; margin-top: 8px; } /* In Mundus, the codex layer is absent from the flow. Scoped to the Sight so the Mythica display:block (below) can't leak back into the scroll. */ #grimoire-stage, .g-transport { display: none; } /* ========================================================================= MYTHICA — the codex reading. Full-bleed night; a book of facing pages floats in it. The reader builds #grimoire-stage and fills it with .g-page spreads; here we dress them. ========================================================================= */ body.mythica { overflow: hidden; } body.mythica .entry, body.mythica .site-header { display: none; } body.mythica #grimoire-stage { display: block; position: fixed; inset: 0; z-index: 20; background: radial-gradient(ellipse 120% 80% at 50% -20%, #16224e 0%, rgba(20,16,44,0) 60%), radial-gradient(ellipse 90% 60% at 50% 120%, #0d1730 0%, rgba(12,18,42,0) 55%), linear-gradient(180deg, #070f22 0%, #050a16 60%, #03060f 100%); overflow: hidden; opacity: 0; transition: opacity .5s ease; } body.mythica #grimoire-stage.is-in { opacity: 1; } /* the book: a centered spread that holds two facing pages (one on narrow) */ .g-book { position: absolute; top: 50%; left: 50%; transform: translate(-50%, -50%); display: flex; gap: 0; perspective: 2600px; filter: drop-shadow(0 30px 60px rgba(0,0,0,.6)); } /* a page — warm vellum, generous margins, the ink of a real book */ .g-page { position: relative; width: var(--page-w, 440px); height: var(--page-h, 640px); background: linear-gradient(90deg, rgba(0,0,0,.14), rgba(0,0,0,0) 6%, rgba(0,0,0,0) 94%, rgba(0,0,0,.10)), linear-gradient(180deg, #f6eede, var(--parch) 40%, #efe4cc); color: var(--page-ink); padding: 46px 42px 40px; overflow: hidden; border: 1px solid var(--parch-edge); } /* recto/verso gutter shading — the valley between facing pages */ .g-page.recto { border-top-right-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; box-shadow: inset 14px 0 26px -18px rgba(60,44,20,.7); } .g-page.verso { border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; box-shadow: inset -14px 0 26px -18px rgba(60,44,20,.7); } /* page content inherits the book's hand */ .g-page :where(h1,h2,h3) { font-weight: 400; color: #3a2c14; letter-spacing: .01em; } .g-page h1 { font-size: 30px; line-height: 1.12; margin: 0 0 6px; } .g-page .entry-meta { color: var(--page-faint); font-size: 13.5px; margin: 0 0 16px; } .g-page h2 { font-size: 21px; color: #5a3f18; margin: 4px 0 10px; } .g-page p { font-size: 15.5px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0 0 13px; text-align: justify; hyphens: auto; -webkit-hyphens: auto; } .g-page strong { color: #2a2216; font-weight: 700; } .g-page em { color: #3a2c14; } .g-page .wp-block-image { margin: 0 0 14px; } .g-page .wp-block-image img { width: 100%; height: auto; border-radius: 2px; filter: saturate(.92) contrast(1.02); } .g-page .wp-block-image figcaption { font-size: 12px; color: var(--page-faint); text-align: center; margin-top: 5px; font-style: italic; } /* the injected title-block (opening leaf) when the theme keeps the H1 outside the content container */ .g-page .g-titleblock { margin: 0 0 12px; } .g-page .g-titleblock h1 { font-size: 30px; line-height: 1.12; margin: 0 0 6px; } .g-page .g-titleblock .entry-meta { color: var(--page-faint); font-size: 13.5px; margin: 0; } /* AUTHOR-COLOUR NEUTRALISATION — VELLUM ONLY. On the light vellum page the post's own colours (a white-on-dark post would vanish) are overridden to the page's ink so any post reads. UNDERLAND does the opposite: it ADOPTS the post's own background, colour and font (below), so the codex looks like the post itself — there we must NOT neutralise. */ #grimoire-stage.theme-vellum .g-page :where(p, li, blockquote, span, em, i) { color: var(--page-ink) !important; } #grimoire-stage.theme-vellum .g-page :where(h1, h2, h3, h4) { color: #4a3312 !important; } #grimoire-stage.theme-vellum .g-page :where(strong, b) { color: #241d12 !important; } #grimoire-stage.theme-vellum .g-page a { color: #6b4e1e !important; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-thickness: .5px; } /* any figure image, however the block wraps it */ .g-page figure img, .g-page .wp-block-image img { width: 100%; height: auto; border-radius: 2px; filter: saturate(.94) contrast(1.02); } /* the folio line — page number, whispered */ .g-folio { position: absolute; bottom: 16px; left: 0; right: 0; text-align: center; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: .18em; color: var(--page-faint); } .g-page.verso .g-folio { text-align: left; left: 42px; } .g-page.recto .g-folio { text-align: right; right: 42px; } /* turning: the page rotates about the gutter (Y axis at its inner edge) */ .g-page.turning { z-index: 5; } .g-turn-fx { position: absolute; inset: 0; transform-style: preserve-3d; transition: transform .62s cubic-bezier(.3,0,.2,1); transform-origin: left center; } .g-turn-fx.verso-origin { transform-origin: right center; } /* ========================================================================= THEMING — the framing is a preset. `vellum` (above) is the clean default; `underland` is the ePub reading: the book afloat on the post's own world, aged pages, a living gilt-vine frame. Other designs drop in as new themes. ========================================================================= */ /* the backdrop — the POST'S OWN background, painted OPAQUELY (so the Mundus content behind can't leak through), using Code Engine Pro's OWN computed size/position (captured, not re-invented) so it matches the scroll across screens. A soft dim keeps the book the focus. */ .g-backdrop { position: absolute; inset: 0; z-index: 0; overflow: hidden; pointer-events: none; } .g-backdrop::before { content: ''; position: absolute; inset: 0; background-image: var(--post-bg, none); background-size: var(--post-bg-size, cover); background-position: var(--post-bg-pos, center); background-repeat: var(--post-bg-repeat, no-repeat); filter: brightness(.72); } .g-backdrop::after { content: ''; position: absolute; inset: 0; background: radial-gradient(ellipse 84% 80% at 50% 46%, rgba(4,7,14,0), rgba(4,6,12,.26) 70%, rgba(2,4,9,.54) 100%); } body.mythica #grimoire-stage.theme-underland { background: #06070d; } #grimoire-stage.theme-underland .g-book { z-index: 2; } /* PAGES ADOPT THE POST. --page-bg / --page-fg / --page-font are captured from the live post so the codex looks like the vertical scroll: the post's own panel colour, text colour and typeface. Nodes keep their own inline colours; only the page's ground and default ink come from the post. */ #grimoire-stage.theme-underland .g-page { background: var(--page-bg, #0e0e12); color: var(--page-fg, #f2efe8); font-family: var(--page-font, inherit); border: 1px solid rgba(206,172,110,.28); box-shadow: inset 0 0 60px rgba(0,0,0,.42); } #grimoire-stage.theme-underland .g-page.recto { box-shadow: inset 16px 0 34px -20px rgba(0,0,0,.85), inset 0 0 60px rgba(0,0,0,.42); } #grimoire-stage.theme-underland .g-page.verso { box-shadow: inset -16px 0 34px -20px rgba(0,0,0,.85), inset 0 0 60px rgba(0,0,0,.42); } /* text elements inherit the post's ink instead of the vellum ink; headings and the injected title keep the post's face and weight */ #grimoire-stage.theme-underland .g-page :where(p, li, blockquote, h1, h2, h3, h4, .g-titleblock h1) { color: inherit; font-family: inherit; } #grimoire-stage.theme-underland .g-page :where(h1, h2, h3, .g-titleblock h1) { color: inherit; } /* HYPERLINKS must read as links — the concept is grimoires linking to grimoires (and to Mythipedia). Gilt, underlined, so a term is visibly a door. Forced over the post's own link colour so it always shows on the black page. */ #grimoire-stage.theme-underland .g-page a, #grimoire-stage.theme-underland .g-page a:link, #grimoire-stage.theme-underland .g-page a:visited { color: #e8c476 !important; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 2px; text-decoration-color: rgba(232,196,118,.55); cursor: pointer; } #grimoire-stage.theme-underland .g-page a:hover { color: #f4dfa8 !important; text-decoration-color: #f4dfa8; text-shadow: 0 0 12px rgba(232,196,118,.4); } #grimoire-stage.theme-underland .g-folio { color: rgba(206,172,110,.72); } /* the BOOK is a brown leather tome: a board that frames the black pages, on the post's own world behind. Brown book · black pages · the story's world beyond. */ #grimoire-stage.theme-underland .g-book::before { content: ''; position: absolute; inset: -24px -28px -28px -28px; z-index: -1; border-radius: 11px; background: linear-gradient(158deg, #5c4126 0%, #422d18 52%, #291b0e 100%); box-shadow: 0 34px 78px rgba(0,0,0,.62), inset 0 0 0 2px rgba(122,86,44,.55), inset 0 0 0 6px rgba(198,158,96,.20), inset 0 2px 10px rgba(255,226,170,.10); } /* the spine valley down the gutter of the tome */ #grimoire-stage.theme-underland .g-book::after { content: ''; position: absolute; top: -18px; bottom: -22px; left: 50%; width: 24px; transform: translateX(-50%); z-index: -1; pointer-events: none; background: linear-gradient(90deg, rgba(0,0,0,0), rgba(20,12,4,.55) 45%, rgba(20,12,4,.55) 55%, rgba(0,0,0,0)); } #grimoire-stage.theme-underland .g-page { border-color: rgba(140,100,52,.4); } /* the living frame — coded gilt-vine (placeholder for the author's own art). Overhangs the book onto the backdrop; never intercepts the reader. */ .g-frame { position: absolute; top: 50%; left: 50%; transform: translate(-50%, -50%); z-index: 6; pointer-events: none; } #grimoire-stage:not(.theme-underland) .g-frame { display: none; } /* vellum stays bare */ .g-vine { position: absolute; width: 190px; height: 190px; opacity: .92; filter: drop-shadow(0 3px 5px rgba(0,0,0,.45)); } .g-vine svg { width: 100%; height: 100%; display: block; } .g-vine-tl { top: -26px; left: -26px; } .g-vine-tr { top: -26px; right: -26px; transform: scaleX(-1); } .g-vine-bl { bottom: -26px; left: -26px; transform: scaleY(-1); } .g-vine-br { bottom: -26px; right: -26px; transform: scale(-1, -1); } /* ===================== media viewer (the "FooBox") ==================== */ /* Click an image in the codex and it opens here. This is the seed of the media-object opener the Calliope canvas will share — images now, video and live frames later (same overlay, richer content). */ .g-lightbox { position: fixed; inset: 0; z-index: 80; display: flex; flex-direction: column; align-items: center; justify-content: center; gap: 14px; padding: 5vh 5vw; background: rgba(3,5,10,.88); backdrop-filter: blur(7px); -webkit-backdrop-filter: blur(7px); cursor: zoom-out; opacity: 0; transition: opacity .32s; } .g-lightbox.is-in { opacity: 1; } .g-lightbox img, .g-lightbox video, .g-lightbox audio, .g-lightbox .g-embed { max-width: 92vw; max-height: 82vh; border-radius: 4px; box-shadow: 0 34px 90px rgba(0,0,0,.7), 0 0 0 1px rgba(206,172,110,.25); transform: scale(.955); transition: transform .32s cubic-bezier(.2,0,.2,1); } .g-lightbox .g-embed { width: min(92vw, 1200px); aspect-ratio: 16 / 9; height: auto; border: 0; } .g-lightbox audio { width: min(92vw, 560px); box-shadow: none; } .g-lightbox.is-in img, .g-lightbox.is-in video, .g-lightbox.is-in audio, .g-lightbox.is-in .g-embed { transform: scale(1); } /* media POSTER in the page — a still that opens the player in the viewer */ .g-media { position: relative; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 16 / 9; margin: 0 0 14px; border-radius: 3px; overflow: hidden; cursor: pointer; background: linear-gradient(158deg, #1b1712, #0c0a08); box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 1px rgba(206,172,110,.28); } .g-media-poster { position: absolute; inset: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; object-fit: cover; } .g-media-play { position: absolute; top: 50%; left: 50%; transform: translate(-50%, -50%); width: 54px; height: 54px; border-radius: 50%; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; font-size: 19px; padding-left: 3px; color: #14100a; background: rgba(232,196,118,.94); box-shadow: 0 6px 22px rgba(0,0,0,.5), 0 0 0 6px rgba(232,196,118,.16); transition: transform .25s, box-shadow .25s; } .g-media:hover .g-media-play { transform: translate(-50%, -50%) scale(1.08); box-shadow: 0 6px 26px rgba(0,0,0,.55), 0 0 0 9px rgba(232,196,118,.2); } .g-media-audio .g-media-play { font-size: 22px; padding-left: 0; } .g-lightbox-cap { color: #d8d3c4; font-family: var(--serif); font-style: italic; font-size: 14px; text-align: center; max-width: 70ch; } .g-lightbox-close { position: absolute; top: 18px; right: 22px; width: 38px; height: 38px; border-radius: 50%; border: 1px solid rgba(206,172,110,.4); background: rgba(10,14,28,.6); color: var(--gold); font-size: 18px; cursor: pointer; } /* ============================ transport ============================= */ .g-transport { position: fixed; z-index: 40; left: 50%; bottom: 26px; transform: translateX(-50%); display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 14px; padding: 9px 16px; border-radius: 999px; border: 1px solid rgba(150,160,200,.18); background: rgba(10,14,28,.72); backdrop-filter: blur(10px); -webkit-backdrop-filter: blur(10px); } body:not(.mythica) .g-transport { display: none; } .g-arrow { width: 34px; height: 34px; border-radius: 50%; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; font-size: 15px; color: var(--gold); cursor: pointer; border: 1px solid rgba(232,196,118,.3); background: transparent; transition: box-shadow .3s, border-color .3s, opacity .3s; } .g-arrow:hover { border-color: rgba(232,196,118,.7); box-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(232,196,118,.2); } .g-arrow[disabled] { opacity: .3; cursor: default; box-shadow: none; } .g-count { font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: .06em; color: var(--ink); min-width: 92px; text-align: center; } /* invisible click-zones on the outer thirds of the book, for tap-to-turn */ .g-flip-zone { position: absolute; top: 0; bottom: 0; width: 22%; z-index: 8; cursor: pointer; } .g-flip-zone.prev { left: 0; } .g-flip-zone.next { right: 0; } /* a hint the first time */ .g-hint { position: fixed; z-index: 40; left: 50%; top: 30px; transform: translateX(-50%); font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: .1em; color: var(--ink-dim); opacity: .0; transition: opacity .6s; pointer-events: none; } .g-hint.show { opacity: .8; } /* measuring frame — an off-screen page-sized box the reader flows text into to decide where pages break. Never seen. */ .g-measure { position: fixed; visibility: hidden; pointer-events: none; left: -9999px; top: 0; overflow: hidden; } /* ========================================================================= COMIC READ-BACK (SEAM:READER) — a mythica_comic's authored pages -> panels rendered as flipbook leaves. Each leaf holds one 3:4 page canvas; panels are placed by rect (% of the canvas), the art fills an overflow-clip with the Pocket's authored crop, and captions overlay by %. Read-only: no editor chrome. Mirrors the Pocket's Comic Press so a page reads back as composed. ========================================================================= */ /* on a comic, the art wants the whole leaf — drop the prose margins */ body.gr-comic .g-page { padding: 12px; } /* full-bleed: no matte at all, the page runs to the leaf edge */ body.gr-bleed .g-page { padding: 0; } .g-page-inner.g-comic { position: relative; width: 100%; height: 100%; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; } /* the page canvas — a 3:4 field (the Pocket's authoring ratio), letterboxed to fit the leaf so panel percentages land exactly where they were composed */ .g-comic-page { position: relative; /* width/height are set in JS to the page's TRUE aspect, contained in the leaf (pure CSS can't fit an arbitrary-aspect box in a differently-shaped parent) */ max-width: 100%; max-height: 100%; background: #0b0e1c; border-radius: 2px; overflow: hidden; box-shadow: inset 0 0 40px rgba(0,0,0,.5); /* the page is a query container: captions size in cq units so text zooms WITH the art at any leaf size, instead of staying a fixed pixel size */ container-type: size; } /* a panel — the same gold frame the Pocket draws, no handles */ .g-comic-panel { position: absolute; border: 1.5px solid rgba(232,196,122,.55); border-radius: 3px; overflow: hidden; background: #05060d; box-shadow: 0 4px 16px rgba(0,0,0,.5); } .g-comic-clip { position: absolute; inset: 0; overflow: hidden; border-radius: 1.5px; } .g-comic-img { position: absolute; inset: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; object-fit: cover; transform-origin: center; user-select: none; -webkit-user-select: none; pointer-events: none; } /* captions — the three kinds, lifted from the Pocket's Comic Press (read-only). Sizes are in cqw (1cqw = 1% of the page width) with a clamp so text stays legible at any leaf size: it matches the Pocket at ~360px wide and scales proportionally as you grow or shrink the page. Tune the middle cqw value to make all caption text bigger/smaller relative to the art. */ .g-ccap { position: absolute; z-index: 4; max-width: 82%; min-width: 6cqw; pointer-events: none; } .g-ccap .g-ccap-txt { display: block; overflow-wrap: break-word; } .g-ccap-speech { background: #f4ead2; color: #241a08; border: 0.4cqw solid #caa64f; border-radius: 3.8cqw; padding: 1.9cqw 3.3cqw; font-family: var(--serif); font-size: clamp(8px, 3.4cqw, 20px); line-height: 1.35; box-shadow: 0 3px 10px rgba(0,0,0,.45); } .g-ccap-speech::after { content: ""; position: absolute; left: 4.4cqw; bottom: -2.2cqw; width: 3.6cqw; height: 3.6cqw; background: #f4ead2; border-right: 0.4cqw solid #caa64f; border-bottom: 0.4cqw solid #caa64f; transform: rotate(45deg) skew(14deg,14deg); } .g-ccap-narration { background: linear-gradient(165deg, rgba(240,212,147,.16), rgba(240,212,147,.05)), #141b3d; color: var(--ink); border: 0.28cqw solid rgba(240,212,147,.55); padding: 1.9cqw 3cqw; font-family: var(--serif); font-style: italic; font-size: clamp(8px, 3.3cqw, 19px); line-height: 1.4; box-shadow: 0 3px 10px rgba(0,0,0,.45); } .g-ccap-caption { color: var(--gold); font-family: var(--serif); font-size: clamp(8px, 3.4cqw, 20px); letter-spacing: .05em; padding: 0.5cqw 1.4cqw; text-shadow: 0 1px 6px rgba(0,0,0,.85), 0 0 16px rgba(240,212,147,.3); } /* the codex forces prose links gilt; comic captions are not links — keep them */ #grimoire-stage.theme-underland .g-page .g-ccap :where(a) { color: inherit !important; } @media (max-width: 720px) { .sight { top: auto; bottom: 20px; right: 50%; transform: translateX(50%); } body.mythica .g-transport { bottom: 84px; } }