Passengers boarding a train beside a platform

When to Drop the Rail

Long-form reading, a landing page, a single focused message — anything where a navigational sidebar would just be competing for attention. This layout is what's left when both rails go away: one column, capped at nine of twelve grid units, centered with justify-content-center instead of pinned to an edge.

It's also the layout to reach for when a page's job is to hold attention rather than route it — a long-form article, a single announcement, anything that reads better without a rail pulling the eye sideways.

The Same Typography, More Room

Body copy, headings, lists, and the .textured-image treatment above are identical to the sidebar layouts — only the grid changes. That's the point of keeping type and component styling in theme.css separate from any one page's markup: the same rules travel to whichever layout uses them.

Dark Themes Still Need Contrast Checks

Even without photos competing for attention behind it, body copy here still sits at 75% white rather than pure white, and headings jump to full opacity — the same two-tier system every page in this template uses, so long stretches of reading never feel flatter or louder than they should.

  • col-lg-9 inside row justify-content-center — the whole layout
  • No .sidebar-blocks on this page at all
  • Same .article-body typography as the other two layouts
  • Same dark-theme contrast rules — 75% white body copy, full-white headings
  • Compare with Left Sidebar or Right Sidebar