mdbook is awesome tool to publish your books online. It offers five themes

• Light
• Ayu
• Navy
• Coal
• Rust

They are all pretty cool but if you are an individual publisher, it gets hard to test your published work in five different themes . Given a multitude of browser/device combinations, it is a lot of work for a single writer to review her work in five different typographies and to fine-tune them to suit the needs of the publication. Too much choice :-)

Yellow theme, makes all the theme choices point to a single theme with yellow #f9ce00 back-ground, with black Kalam fonts from Indian Type Foundry. Fonts are available for free download or direct embed at google Fonts

The Kalam fonts are hybrid of a normal and italics. A carefree font that is good for both English and Hindi — particularly so if you have a mix of both in your publication. Very suitable for poetic quotes common to most of the books !

You can view a usage of this theme at https://gita.shutri.com

How to install -

/ clone repo
gh repo clone ashutoshmjain/maholvi
/ Replace the favicon.png in `theme` folder with yours.
/ Copy theme and fonts to your mdbook src folder
cp -rp maholvi/*  <yourBook>/src/

Point your book.toml to this new theme

[output.html]
theme = "src/theme"

• Test with mdbook serve on local host.

Credits

• The color choice is inspired from https://demo.diasporamemory.com/
• The cover page and the general css design is inspired from https://ipythonbook.com/
• "Indian Fonts Foundry" and Google fonts for awesome Kamal font

Note

Since fonts and back ground image is already supplied , addition of this theme should not need any additional cookies or trackers on user side.