Hemingway Outdoors 1.0
November 18th, 2007
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I’ve been toying with a theme I found recently called ‘Hemingway meets Cognitive Combine I 1.0.’ I liked the basic idea of the theme, but I didn’t like the color scheme and font choice. So, given that it had a very permissive license, I decided to modify it to my liking for use in a project. I’m now also making this available to you.
The changes are simple: I used a bit more olive green in the page background, rather than the creamy color originally used. I also added a subtle background image to the header with foliage and plants on a slight gradient. As far as fonts are concerned, I set just about everything to use Georgia, since it renders beautifully and is available on both Windows and Mac, and even some Linux systems (At the time I installed it, the Microsoft Core Web Fonts were available to me in OpenSUSE Linux 10.2 as a separate download - I think Microsoft has now blocked this and now charges for these fonts). But as a backup, the fonts cascade down to Times, Times New Roman and as a failsafe, serif.
Another change I made was separating the comments and trackbacks/pingbacks on the comments page, something I’ve recently implemented on this site as well. In addition, if there are no trackbacks/pingbacks, that section is hidden.
I hope you find this theme useful. If you do, feel free to leave me a comment, trackback or pingback.
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