Ready for 2025
Since I started intermittently blogging again in 2021, I haven’t really done much style-wise with this site. I use the static site generator, Pelican, and a theme called Pelican Paper (details and links on my About page). To be fair, Pelican Paper is good to go straight out of the box. However, I’m a fussy little so-and-so and had some things I wanted to change. As business is a bit quiet this time of year, I decided to tackle it.
Self Hosted Fonts
Over the last few years I’ve been self hosting Google fonts on my servers for my Python projects. Unlike a few years ago, doing this takes about 15 minutes today. I view fonts as just another asset like a stylesheet, an image, an html file. Might as well host it myself. Here, I’m using Crimson Pro for headings, Public Sans for body text, JetBrains Mono for code. I think these fonts go really well together.
Styled Footnotes
I’ve become quite a fan of footnotes lately. The problem can be that they’re hard to see on the page. I’ve decided to make mine blue and add a bit of padding. Again, I’m quite chuffed with how they now look.1
Future Changes
I might decrease the margins on some templates. In particular, on mobile I think there’s a bit too much whitespace on the sides on the index page.
Footnotes
1 I have Apache set to cache stylesheets. If they’re still black, disable cache in your browser or wait a month to have it refreshed