Book Configuration🔖

In your new Hyperbook project you will find a hyperbook.json file. This file is for configuring Hyperbook. Here is a list of options you can and part wise must set (indicated by a *).

Property	Description
name*	Name of your Hyperbook. Used for the page header.
description	Description of your Hyperbook. Used for SEO.
logo	URL to a logo. Used for the page title. Can be relative to the public folder or an absolute URL
author.name	Author name of your Hyperbook. Used in the footer.
author.url	Used to link the author name in the footer.
font	URL to a font. Used for headings and body.
fonts.heading	URL to a font. Used for headings.
fonts.body	URL to a font. Used for body.
fonts.code	URL to a font. Used for code.
colors.brand	The color for the header and the accents for example on links.
colors.brandDark	The color for the header and the accents for example on links, if the user prefers a dark theme. Brand text is not used for the dark theme.
colors.brandText	The color for the text in the header
basePath	When deploying to a subdirectory, for example on GitHub pages, you can set a base path.
license	License under the Hyperbook is published.
language	The language of the Hyperbook.
repo	The link to the GitHub repo. Used for showing an edit button. The %path% placeholder will be replaced by the current path or the current path will be appended.
repo.url	The link to the repo. Used for showing an edit button. The %path% placeholder will be replaced by the current path or the current path will be appended.
repo.label	The label for the repo link.
elements	Here you can configure the elements. See the element pages for configuration options.
links	Here you can add custom links, which will be shown in the top right corner. See the example below on how to use them.

Here is an example configuration:

{
  "name": "Hyperbook Documentation",
  "description": "Documentation for Hyperbook created with Hyperbook",
  "author": {
    "name": "OpenPatch",
    "url": "https://openpatch.org"
  },
  "font": "/fonts/my-font.woff2",
  "logo": "/logo.png",
  "license": "CC-BY-SA",
  "language": "en",
  "basePath": "/hyperbook-github-pages",
  "repo": {
    "url": "https://github.com/mikebarkmin/hyperbook-github-pages/edit/main/%path%",
    "label": "Edit on GitHub"
  },
  "colors": {
    "brand": "#FF0000"
  },
  "elements": {
    "bookmarks": false
  },
  "links": [
    {
      "label": "Contact",
      "links": [
        {
          "label": "Mail",
          "icon": "📧",
          "href": "mailto:contact@openpatch.org"
        },
        {
          "label": "Twitter",
          "icon": "🐦",
          "href": "https://twitter.com/openpatchorg"
        },
        {
          "label": "Mastodon",
          "icon": "🐘",
          "href": "https://fosstodon.org/@openpatch"
        },
        {
          "label": "Matrix (Chat)",
          "icon": "👨‍💻",
          "href": "https://matrix.to/#/#hyperbook:matrix.org"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "label": "OpenPatch",
      "href": "https://openpatch.org"
    }
  ]
}