New blog style
Since I started this blog, I've wanted to make it look the way I wanted, even though I didn't really have an idea what that could be. I have now, after reading what Pascal Klein has to say on the subject, crafted a design I think is nice and elegant, and emphasizes the content enough in a beautiful way. To be honest, it still needs some work ;-)
While I chose the precise text style manually, for colours I used the Tango project's palette and drew inspiration from that same project in designing the header graphic and the icons. I am going to use Tango emoticons and a Tango RSS icon as well soon.
Here you have some example code, including my font choices:
body {
font-size: 81.25%25; /* 1em = 13px IF font size is set to 16px */
font-family: "Liberation Serif", "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
background: #2e3436;
padding:0;
margin:0;
}
blockquote {
font-family: "Liberation Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 0.923em;
...
}
pre.sourcecode {
font-family: "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", monospace;
font-size: 0.769em;
...
}Note that the default fonts are all libres, and included in a number of GNU/Linux distributions