+++ title = "tapestry" description = "A Zola theme for academic and industry researcher profile websites, derived from and backward-compatible with terminus" template = "theme.html" date = 2026-08-04T23:34:16Z

[taxonomies] theme-tags = ['scholarly', 'academic', 'portfolio', 'blog', 'minimal', 'personal', 'responsive', 'seo']

[extra] created = 2026-08-04T23:34:16Z updated = 2026-08-04T23:34:16Z repository = "https://github.com/anirbanbasu/tapestry.git" homepage = "https://github.com/anirbanbasu/tapestry" minimum_version = "0.22.0" license = "MIT" demo = "https://ghp-tapestry.anirbanbasu.com"

[extra.author] name = "Anirban Basu" homepage = "https://www.anirbanbasu.com" +++

Tapestry

Tapestry is a researcher profile website theme for the Zola static site generator.

Inspired by and derived from the terminus theme, specifically its aa8d8b67f9ab69ae48e1405f96e152d41f03e0ed commit, tapestry inherits a number of features from the terminus theme. The key differences include the following.

Five presentation style groups — scholarly, creative, natural, precision, and collective — each with a number of variants (e.g., creative's editorial-zine) replace the extra.color_scheme setting of the terminus theme.
Each presentation style and its variants are available in both light and dark modes.
Additional shortcodes, such as for showing the colour palette.

Try the demo at the following links.

Features

Five presentation style groups — scholarly, creative, natural, precision, and collective — each offering multiple fully-specified variants (distinct typefaces, colour palettes, and layout treatments), all with matching light and dark modes.
WCAG 2.1 Level AA accessibility across every shipped template and style/variant combination — colour contrast, keyboard navigation, semantic landmarks, visible focus states.
Practically no JavaScript: only a light/dark theme switcher, optional client-side KaTeX math rendering, and an optional presentation style/variant switcher — nothing else, no analytics, no third-party embeds.
Self-hosted fonts — no runtime calls to Google Fonts or any other font CDN.
A 12-column responsive grid, GitHub-style Markdown alerts, and a set of extra shortcodes (e.g. a colour palette preview) on top of everything inherited from terminus.

Requirements

Zola 0.22.1 or newer (the theme's own theme.toml pins min_version = "0.22.0").

Usage

Initialise a Git repository in your Zola project directory, if you have not done it.
bash
```
git init
```

Add this theme as a Git submodule.

bash

git submodule add https://github.com/anirbanbasu/tapestry.git themes/tapestry

Enable this theme in your config.toml:
toml
```
theme = "tapestry"
```
Set a website title of your liking in your config.toml:
toml
```
title = "My research profile"
```

Create a text file named content/_index.md. This file controls how your home page looks. Choose exactly one of the following options:

Serve yours posts from /:

markdown

+++
title = "Home"
paginate_by = 5  # Show 5 posts per page.
+++

Serve posts from a different path, e.g. posts/:

markdown

+++
title = "Home"

[extra]
section_path = "posts/_index.md"  # Where to find your posts.
max_posts = 5  # Show 5 posts and a link to posts section on home page.
+++

Configuration

Beyond the homepage setup above, Tapestry reads a range of extra.* keys at the site, section, and page level — presentation style/variant selection, KaTeX, social/navigation links, image handling, content security policy, and more. Rather than duplicate that reference here, consult the live, always-up-to-date documentation on either demo site:

Contributing

Contributions to this theme are very welcome! However, if you want to contribute to the theme, please do so at the theme-tapestry-dev repository. Meanwhile, this repository exists only to serve the purpose of a Git submodule installable theme for your Zola project.

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.