LEMDO’s Default Style
Rationale
LEMDO uses a standard shared stylesheet across all of our projects. Before you can
start customizing your anthology’s styling, you (or your web designer) must understand
LEMDO’s default styling so that you know which aspects of the styling are in your
control. This documentation will guide you through the basics of LEMDO’s standard
stylesheet.
Styling Basics
LEMDO’s general style includes a basic font and colour scheme. It also includes styling
for a top navigation bar, hamburger menu, popout navigation panel, and footer. Although
you can expect the overall functionality of your anthology to be standardized across
the LEMDO platform, you may customize some aspects of your anthology’s appearance
using CSS variables.
Variables are customizable values that make it easier to manage colours, fonts, and
sizes across a website. LEMDO uses variables to determine some of our styling. The
table below outlines variables that anthology leads may wish to change.
| Variable | LEMDO Default Style | Description |
primarySans
|
Alegreya Sans | The primary sans-serif font on your website |
primarySerif
|
Alegreya | The primary serif font on your website |
highlightColor
1
|
LEMDO blue (#009DFF) | General highlight colour |
highlightColorNotActive
|
Light blue (#BFE0FF) | Highlight colour for inactive links |
highlightColorActive
|
LEMDO blue (#009DFF) | Highlight colour for active links |
topnav-bg-color
|
White (#FFFFFF) | Background colour for the top navigation bar |
topnav-border-color
|
Titanium white (#E4E4E4) | Border colour for the top navigation bar |
topnav-bg-color-desktop
|
White (#FFFFFF) | Background colour for the top navigation bar on a laptop or desktop computer |
mobile-toggler-color
|
Medium grey (#565656) | Font colour for the hamburger menu on mobile |
topnav-searchfield-button-bg-color-active
|
LEMDO blue (#009DFF) | Background colour for the GO button when hovered |
clicky-color-inactive-desktop
|
Medium grey (#565656) | Colour for dropdown menus on laptop or desktop computers |
clicky-dropdown-inactive-desktop
|
Medium grey (#565656) | Colour for dropdown menu items on laptop or desktop computers |
clicky-svg-inactive-desktop
|
Medium grey (#565656) | Colour for the arrow marker in an unclicked dropdown menu on laptop or desktop computers |
leftNav-bg-color
|
White (#FFFFFF) | Background colour for the left navigation panel |
leftNav-tabarea-bg-color
|
White smoke (#EBEBEB) | Background colour for the header area on the left navigation panel |
leftNav-tab-color
|
Medium grey (#565656) | Font colour for tab items on the left navigation panel |
leftNav-button-bg-color
|
LEMDO blue (#009DFF) | Background colour for the X button on the left navigation panel |
leftNav-button-color
|
White (#FFFFFF) | Colour for the hamburger icon that activates the left navigation panel |
leftNav-border-color
|
Titanium white (#E4E4E4) | Border colour for the left navigation menu |
mainBgColor
|
White (#FDFDFD) | Background colour for the main content area of your website |
offPageBgColor
|
White smoke (#EBEBEB) | Background colour for areas outside of the maximum page width |
chainColorActive
|
White (#FFFFFF) | Colour for the chain icon when active (hovered) |
footer-bg-color
|
Platinum (#E7E7E7) | Background colour for your website’s footer |
Special Case: Modernized Texts
LEMDO has specific styling that applies to stage directions in modernized texts. For
more detailed information on stage direction placement in modernized texts, see
Stage Direction Rendering in Modernized Texts.
Special Case: Semi-Diplomatic Transcriptions
LEMDO also has specific styling for semi-diplomatic transcriptions intended to imitate
common features in most early modern playbooks. For more detailed information on semi-diplomatic
styling, see
Default Style in Semi-Diplomatic Transcriptions.
Notes
1.CSS variables follow American spelling conventions.↑
Prosopography
Janelle Jenstad
Janelle Jenstad is a Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director
of The Map of Early Modern London, and Director of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools (Routledge). She has edited John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Elizabethan Theatre, Early Modern Literary Studies, Shakespeare Bulletin, Renaissance and Reformation, and The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. She contributed chapters to Approaches to Teaching Othello (MLA); Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives (MLA); Institutional Culture in Early Modern England (Brill); Shakespeare, Language, and the Stage (Arden); Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate); New Directions in the Geohumanities (Routledge); Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter); Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana); Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota); Rethinking Shakespeare Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (Routledge); and Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London (Routledge). For more details, see janellejenstad.com.
Joey Takeda
Joey Takeda is LEMDO’s Consulting Programmer and Designer, a role he assumed in 2020
after three years as the Lead Developer on LEMDO.
Mahayla Galliford
Project manager, 2025-present; research assistant, 2021-present. Mahayla Galliford
(she/her) graduated with a BA (Hons with distinction) from the University of Victoria
in 2024. Mahayla’s undergraduate research explored early modern stage directions and
civic water pageantry. Mahayla continues her studies through UVic’s English MA program
and her SSHRC-funded thesis project focuses on editing and encoding girls’ manuscripts,
specifically Lady Rachel Fane’s dramatic entertainments, in collaboration with LEMDO.
Martin Holmes
Martin Holmes has worked as a developer in the UVic’s Humanities Computing and Media
Centre for over two decades, and has been involved with dozens of Digital Humanities
projects. He has served on the TEI Technical Council and as Managing Editor of the
Journal of the TEI. He took over from Joey Takeda as lead developer on LEMDO in 2020.
He is a collaborator on the SSHRC Partnership Grant led by Janelle Jenstad.
Navarra Houldin
Training and Documentation Lead 2025–present. LEMDO project manager 2022–2025. Textual
remediator 2021–present. Navarra Houldin (they/them) completed their BA with a major
in history and minor in Spanish at the University of Victoria in 2022. Their primary
research was on gender and sexuality in early modern Europe and Latin America. They
are continuing their education through an MA program in Gender and Social Justice
Studies at the University of Alberta where they will specialize in Digital Humanities.
Sofia Spiteri
Sofia Spiteri is currently completing her Bachelor of Arts in History at the University
of Victoria. During the summer of 2023, she had the opportunity to work with LEMDO
as a recipient of the Valerie Kuehne Undergraduate Research Award (VKURA). Her work
with LEMDO primarily includes semi-diplomatic transcriptions for The Winter’s Tale and Mucedorus.
Tracey El Hajj
Junior Programmer 2019–2020. Research Associate 2020–2021. Tracey received her PhD
from the Department of English at the University of Victoria in the field of Science
and Technology Studies. Her research focuses on the algorhythmics of networked communications. She was a 2019–2020 President’s Fellow in Research-Enriched
Teaching at UVic, where she taught an advanced course on
Artificial Intelligence and Everyday Life.Tracey was also a member of the Map of Early Modern London team, between 2018 and 2021. Between 2020 and 2021, she was a fellow in residence at the Praxis Studio for Comparative Media Studies, where she investigated the relationships between artificial intelligence, creativity, health, and justice. As of July 2021, Tracey has moved into the alt-ac world for a term position, while also teaching in the English Department at the University of Victoria.
Orgography
LEMDO Team (LEMD1)
The LEMDO Team is based at the University of Victoria and normally comprises the project
director, the lead developer, project manager, junior developers(s), remediators,
encoders, and remediating editors.
Metadata
| Authority title | LEMDO’s Default Style |
| Type of text | Documentation |
| Publisher | University of Victoria on the Linked Early Modern Drama Online Platform |
| Series | Linked Early Modern Drama Online |
| Source |
TEI Customization created by Martin Holmes, Joey Takeda, and Janelle Jenstad; documentation written by members of the LEMDO Team
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| Editorial declaration | n/a |
| Edition | Released with Linked Early Modern Drama Online 1.0 |
| Encoding description | Encoded in TEI P5 according to the LEMDO Customization and Encoding Guidelines |
| Document status | prgGenerated |
| Funder(s) | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada |
| License/availability |
This file is licensed under a CC BY-NC_ND 4.0 license, which means that it is freely downloadable without permission under the following
conditions: (1) credit must be given to the author and LEMDO in any subsequent use
of the files and/or data; (2) the content cannot be adapted or repurposed (except
in quotations for the purposes of academic review and citation); and (3) commercial
uses are not permitted without the knowledge and consent of the editor and LEMDO.
This license allows for pedagogical use of the documentation in the classroom.
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