Tuning the blog - 5) a better masthead

Nearly there with the basic functionality of the blog. Time to put a bit more style into it. First up - a better masthead. Given the subject matter of the blog, I wanted it to have something of the look of Apple’s Swift page.

The orange bit was fairly easy with some tweaks to styles.scss. However I couldn’t find a font that rendered on the web with the elegance of the one used by Apple. It turns out that neither could Apple. The main text (“Swift”) is actually a graphic. So that’s precisely what I did to produce the main text.

I’m now on the look out for a public domain picture of a tortoise.

Posted in Blogging with : Fonts, CSS, Graphics