Welcome to the Standard Manual

Standard Garden is "Pastebin for prose"—the fastest way from thought to beautiful URL.

This manual is itself built with Standard Garden’s own typography engine, demonstrating what’s possible with our framework. we practice what we preach: beautiful, semantic documentation rendered with classical typography.

What is Standard Garden?

Standard Garden is a utility, not a platform. Like WeTransfer for files or Pastebin for code, we solve one problem exceptionally well:

Turn any text into a gorgeous webpage in 10 seconds. no account needed.

Core Principles

Speed is Respect

the web makes sharing text too hard. Open Google Docs, format, set sharing, copy link, explain permissions. we say: paste, click, done. 10 seconds from thought to beautiful URL.

Beauty is Default

500 years of typographic refinement (Gutenberg’s baseline grid, Aldus Manutius’s proportions, Josef Müller-Brockmann’s Swiss precision) applied automatically. Your mom’s recipe looks like a cookbook. Your brother’s snowmobile fix looks like a manual.

Friction is the Enemy

no account required to start. no configuration. no "set up your blog." Just paste and share. Like Pastebin, but your content looks professional.

the Six Temperaments

From the Atlas: These are not themes—they are Temperaments. the DNA of how your content expresses itself.

Every note automatically renders in one of six classical design systems:

  1. the Construct (International) – Rigid, mathematical, precise. Swiss minimalism
  2. the Blueprint (Technical) – Manual, monospace, safety-first (what you’re reading now)
  3. the Letter (Humanist) – Warm, organic, personal. Cream paper, soft serifs
  4. the Chronicle (Editorial) – Authority, journalism, contrast. Newspaper-style, drop caps
  5. the Treatise (Academic) – Scholarly, marginal, annotated. Journal-style, sidenotes
  6. the Exhibit (Gallery) – Invisible, spatial, minimalist. Museum-style, receded captions

Quick Start

  1. Visit standard.garden
  2. Paste your text
  3. Click "Make it Beautiful"
  4. Share the URL

That’s it. no account needed.

Continue Reading

This is a living document. the manual improves as the garden grows.