Intility's Bifrost design system as a Material for MkDocs plugin.
A pip-installable MkDocs plugin that applies Intility's Bifrost design system to Material for MkDocs. The plugin is batteries-included: colors, typography, component styling, markdown extensions, theme features, and admonition icons are all configured automatically.
uv pip install intility-bifrost-mkdocsAdd intility-bifrost to your mkdocs.yml plugins:
theme:
name: material
palette:
- scheme: light
primary: teal # Options: teal, purple, pink, yellow
toggle:
icon: material/brightness-7
name: Switch to dark mode
- scheme: dark
primary: teal
toggle:
icon: material/brightness-4
name: Switch to light mode
plugins:
- intility-bifrost
- searchAdding intility-bifrost to your plugins list gives you:
- Bifrost design system - Colors, typography, and component styling matching the Intility design system
- Light/dark mode - Automatic theme switching with Bifrost color variables
- Theme colors - teal, purple, pink, yellow (set via
primaryin your palette config) - Typography - Satoshi for headings, Open Sans for body, JetBrains Mono for code
- 23 markdown extensions - Admonitions, code highlighting, tabs, mermaid diagrams, math (MathJax), emoji, task lists, and more
- 13 theme features - Instant navigation, search suggestions, code copy buttons, etc.
- Admonition icons - Custom FontAwesome icons for all admonition types
All defaults are injected only when the user hasn't provided their own config, so you can override anything by setting it explicitly in your mkdocs.yml.
uv venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
uv pip install -e ".[dev]"
mkdocs serveThis installs the plugin in editable mode with dev dependencies (ruff, pytest, livereload, git-revision-date plugin). The demo site at docs/index.md uses the plugin directly.