Blush Magazine

Blush is a magazine theme for writing that argues with the marketing: reviews worn for weeks, ingredient explainers, and shade notes that never fit in a caption. It ships as a complete publication, including 13 page types, a four-collection CMS and 30 demo stories; not a landing page with a blog bolted on.

Stories, four ways: Every post picks its own opening from the CMS: Standard, Banner, Cover, or a full-screen Immersive treatment where the header lies over the photograph. Section pages do the same, choosing a featured, grid or list layout per section.

Built as a CMS, not a page: Posts, Sections, Contributors and Topics, with reference fields wired throughout — section pages, contributor pages, topic pages and an archive all fill themselves. Covers carry credits, alt text and an optional wide crop; read time is computed from the article body.

Features

• 13 page types: home, story (4 layouts), section, topic, contributor, topic and contributor indexes, archive, about, contact, privacy, saved and 404

• Mega menu and dropdown that open on hover, focus and tap, close on Escape, scroll and navigation, and hand over to a drawer on small screens

• Save for later, with a saved reading list readers can remove from

• Share sheet, reading progress, and horizontal rails with arrows and swipe — no scrollbars

• Dark mode on colour tokens, with a header toggle

• Load-more pagination, search, and a newsletter and contact form ready for your destination

• Five breakpoints, from phone to 1500px

• Manrope and Mulish, set as text styles you can retune in one place

Measured, not asserted: 100 / 100 / 100 for accessibility, best practices and SEO in Lighthouse, and 90+ performance on desktop. Skip link, landmarks, labelled controls, a sane heading order and reduced-motion support throughout. JSON-LD, canonical URLs, and social cards that use each story's own cover.