Guide

Closeread is a Quarto extension that allows you to author scrollytelling HTML documents. To learn how to create your first closeread document, start off by reading about the Components of a Closeread Document.


This is an open-source tool built upon other open-source tools. Closeread extends Quarto, a tool for technical publishing sponsored by Posit, PBC. The responsivity to user scrolling is made possible by the scrollama v3.0 javascript library by Russell Samora. Both tools are open-source and distributed under an MIT License.