Shakespeare mode
Modern documentation sites can feel too casual, lacking the gravitas that your product deserves. Shakespeare mode addresses this by rendering your documentation in Shakespearean English with a parchment visual theme. It overrides your site’s theme with warm brown tones, swaps fonts to a medieval style, and translates common words into their Shakespearean equivalents (for example, “you” becomes “thou” and “is” becomes “‘tis”).
Activation
Add the shakespeare=true query parameter to any documentation URL:
To deactivate, click the Restore Original button in the banner or remove the query parameter from the URL. The original content, theme, and styling are fully restored.
Use cases
- Financial services APIs — Match the formality expectations of banking and payments partners.
- Healthcare and life sciences platforms — Present clinical and compliance documentation with appropriate gravitas.
- Government and public sector — Align documentation tone with the standards of institutional buyers.
- Enterprise infrastructure — Reinforce the seriousness of your platform for procurement and security reviews.
- Brand differentiation — Stand out from the sea of casual developer docs with a distinctive, authoritative voice.
