Styling of Markdown content should stay as code styling
Problem to solve
The WYSIWYG section of the Static Site Editor is meant to provide a rich preview of Markdown content by removing the markup and rendering text in a more familiar format. The alternate view of the editor is the raw source file and, for now, it's purpose is to ensure that any content on the page that isn't supported in the WYSIWYG editor can be edited in some fashion. Currently, the content in the source view is styled with some amounts of rich formatting (headers are bold, text is sans-serif). It is confusing to have HTML styling applied to the source view which displays the page in Markdown format.
Intended users
All users of the Static Site Editor, especially those more familiar with writing raw Markdown
User experience goal
Familiarity and efficiency
Proposal
Update the typography of "source view" to be
font-family: "Menlo", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Liberation Mono", "Consolas", "Ubuntu Mono", "Courier New", "andale mono", "lucida console", monospace; font-size: 13px;
This keeps the font size consistent and renders the text in a more familiar monospace font.
A step further could be adding colour for headings and link/images in Markdown in the form of syntax highlighting.