Product
Features
Every capability Project Broadsheet ships with — organized the way you'd evaluate one.
Project Broadsheet isn't a theme or a minimal starter. It's a full publication framework with everything an indie newsroom, newsletter, or small magazine needs — and nothing bolted on just to check a marketing box.
Reader experience
Twenty-seven reader tools that other platforms don't have — and never will.
- Text-to-speech with synced word highlighting
- 27 font choices with six highlight colors
- Reading ruler, focus mode, and reading list
- Voice search and form dictation
- Export everything as portable JSON
Editorial sections
Nine editorial verticals configured out of the box, each with pagination and its own RSS feed.
- News, Opinion, Analysis, Arts & Culture
- Science & Tech, History, Letters, Reviews
- Per-section accent colors
- Author-specific RSS feeds
- Editions: numbered issues, printable as PDF
Specialty content
Formats designed for real publications, not blogs.
- Reviews: books, films, podcasts, documentaries
- Public-domain library with chapter navigation
- A-to-Z glossary with hover tooltips
- Events calendar with recurrence
- Games, quotes, and curated collections
Search and SEO
Built to rank, built to find.
- Pagefind full-text search, client-side
- JSON-LD structured data
- Open Graph and Twitter Cards
- XML sitemap and per-author RSS
- Print stylesheets for articles and editions
Integrations
Everything you'd pay a SaaS for, wired up in a single config file.
- Buttondown newsletter (no tracking)
- Umami analytics (cookieless)
- Cusdis comments (privacy-first)
- Web3Forms for any submission form
- Pages CMS for browser-based editing
- GTranslate across nine languages
Zero lock-in
Plain Markdown in Git. Migrate away in an afternoon.
- MIT license — use it for anything
- No database, no runtime, no platform fees
- Content portability by design
- Static output deploys anywhere
- ~12-second builds for 500+ pages
27+
Reader tools
9
Editorial sections
~12s
Build time (500 pages)
$0
Recurring cost