CSS for Printing to Paper (2025)
Tomte
12 points
2 comments
September 05, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
treetalker
This is useful. I use a similar setup to convert online articles worth understanding in depth into a standardized, Tufte-like format to print in my preferred font/size/spacing and to leave the right-hand 40% of the page blank for making handwritten notes. Article--> markdown via Marky or similar --> Marked app [1] --> apply CSS --> print --> annotate. [0]: Marky — https://heckyesmarkdown.com/ [1]: Marked app — https://markedapp.com/
0xcoffee
When I wanted to try and design a printable static site, I stumbled over the fact that it's not possible to do automatic page numbers (including total page count) with CSS. Settled on using https://pagedjs.org/