lyt is a static site generator built on a single premise: the tools should disappear.
No runtime JavaScript. No SPA routing. No React components. No CSS frameworks.
Just YAML for content structure, Markdown for prose, Go templates for components, and CSS for styling.
The output is a directory of HTML files. Serve them anywhere.
Content lives in content/. Pages are YAML files with a meta block and sections. Long-form prose is Markdown, referenced via @filename.md.
Templates live in templates/. The base CSS in templates/base.css. Design tokens in content/tokens.yaml.
Run lyt build and get static HTML.
The design system is built on a 3-plane z-axis metaphor:
z: 0): body text, prosez: 10): cards, elevated elementsz: 100): navigation, floating elementsDepth is conveyed through shadow offsets and backdrop blur — not through color, iconography, or additional markup.
The result is a sense of layering without the visual noise of most design systems.