In distill: 'R Markdown' Format for Scientific and Technical Writing

How do you apply a custom theme to a Distill site or blog? You have two options:

1. Apply it site-wide by adding a theme key to the top-level of your _site.yml configuration file:

   {.yaml} name: "distill" title: "Distill for R Markdown" theme: theme.css navbar: # (navbar definition here)

2. Apply to an individual article by adding a theme key to your article's YAML front-matter:

   ``` {.yaml}

   title: "The Sharpe Ratio" output: distill::distill_article: toc: true theme: theme.css

   ---

   ```

The second option allows for you to apply your theme to individual articles, while using a different theme for the rest of your site. Note that this is only possible for stand-alone articles within a website --- you cannot apply a theme to individual blog posts only.

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