Nan Xiao

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I launched this website in 2009, initially as a personal blog, before later expanding it to include a professional portfolio. Throughout the years, I have explored different publishing platforms: from WordPress and OpenScholar to hand-written HTML. My journey led me to adopt the static website generator: blogdown, driven by Hugo.

This page lists the tools I use to build the site today. Besides the proprietary fonts, the entire stack is free and open source, and can be found on GitHub. The source code for this site itself is available at https://github.com/nanxstats/nanx.me.

Typography

Heading
Instrument Sans
Neo-grotesque typeface
Body text
Martina Plantijn
Serif typeface designed by Kris Sowersby
Code
Noto Sans Mono Ligaturized
Noto Sans Mono with Fira Code ligatures
Favicon
Fira Sans Extra Condensed
Legible condensed humanist typeface
Color theme
Tailwind CSS Typography
Beautiful typographic defaults

Publishing

Generator
blogdown
Static site generator for R, driven by Hugo
Theme
hugo-nanx2026
Responsive Hugo theme built on Tailwind CSS
Commenting
utterances
Lightweight commenting system using GitHub issues

Editing

Editor
Visual Studio Code
Code editor from Microsoft
Extension
R extension
R language support in VS Code
Theme
textmate.rstheme
Light VS Code theme optimized for R and R Markdown