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Working on a new pelican (python static site generator like jekyll) theme with a minimal old book style, with renaissance serif fonts, text decorations, etc. No

Working on a new pelican (python static site generator like jekyll) theme with a minimal old book style, with renaissance serif fonts, text decorations, etc. Not a designer, so I'm having a bit of trouble but I think I did fairly well so far! Comments appreciated. https://github.com/makmanalp/fleuron https://github.com/makmanalp/fleuron (screenshot included!)

atmosx 13y ago
That's really cool. I wouldn't say that you are not a designer, especially considering how much I struggle with CSS/HTML5 to get an acceptable result, on my rails views. The problem with the these kind of designs are the fonts. Most of these old-style, handwritten fonts won't work for non-Latin languages unfortunately :-(
- makmanalp 13y ago
  Thanks for the kind words! Cardo is special in this regard. Not only is it beautiful, but it was specifically made for linguists / biblical studies people etc. So it includes a metric crapton of unicode glyphs. That's one of the reasons I chose it: my native language is Turkish, so I'm familiar with these types of problems :)
  - atmosx 13y ago
    Oh that's nice, keep up the good work then! :-)
egeozcan 13y ago
Hey, I've just published jstatico[1], yet another static site generator. I wanted to ask if it's ok to fork and modify this to create an example site to use with my generator. I use nunjucks so porting should be trivial. In the readme of the repo, you said: > You can reuse it freely, I only ask that you keep the > attribution text and link on the bottom as is but you don't have a license. So, I wasn't sure if you'd allow "repurposing" too. [1]: https://github.com/egeozcan/jstatico https://github.com/egeozcan/jstatico
- makmanalp 13y ago
  Sure, you can fork this. I'd love that. But beware, this is really early stage and I wouldn't trust it to be complete. The markup is really a horrendous hackjob and hasn't been rigorously tested in older browsers. I added a BSD 3 clause license with an extra clause that you can read here: https://github.com/makmanalp/fleuron/blob/master/LICENSE https://github.com/makmanalp/fleuron/blob/master/LICENSE Basically if you modify in any way and it looks visually quite similar, please keep my original attribution text and URL visible. Deal? Man, licensing is hard!
  - egeozcan 13y ago
    Thank you for adding a license. I don't mind the state, I'm just experimenting too. About the terms... Of course it's a deal =)
- stevekemp 13y ago
  If you want to include comments on your static site you might enjoy this project: https://github.com/skx/e-comments/ https://github.com/skx/e-comments/

atmosx 13y ago

That's really cool. I wouldn't say that you are not a designer, especially considering how much I struggle with CSS/HTML5 to get an acceptable result, on my rails views. The problem with the these kind of designs are the fonts. Most of these old-style, handwritten fonts won't work for non-Latin languages unfortunately :-(

makmanalp 13y ago
Thanks for the kind words! Cardo is special in this regard. Not only is it beautiful, but it was specifically made for linguists / biblical studies people etc. So it includes a metric crapton of unicode glyphs. That's one of the reasons I chose it: my native language is Turkish, so I'm familiar with these types of problems :)
- atmosx 13y ago
  Oh that's nice, keep up the good work then! :-)

egeozcan 13y ago

Hey, I've just published jstatico[1], yet another static site generator. I wanted to ask if it's ok to fork and modify this to create an example site to use with my generator. I use nunjucks so porting should be trivial. In the readme of the repo, you said: > You can reuse it freely, I only ask that you keep the > attribution text and link on the bottom as is but you don't have a license. So, I wasn't sure if you'd allow "repurposing" too. [1]: https://github.com/egeozcan/jstatico https://github.com/egeozcan/jstatico

makmanalp 13y ago
Sure, you can fork this. I'd love that. But beware, this is really early stage and I wouldn't trust it to be complete. The markup is really a horrendous hackjob and hasn't been rigorously tested in older browsers. I added a BSD 3 clause license with an extra clause that you can read here: https://github.com/makmanalp/fleuron/blob/master/LICENSE https://github.com/makmanalp/fleuron/blob/master/LICENSE Basically if you modify in any way and it looks visually quite similar, please keep my original attribution text and URL visible. Deal? Man, licensing is hard!
- egeozcan 13y ago
  Thank you for adding a license. I don't mind the state, I'm just experimenting too. About the terms... Of course it's a deal =)
stevekemp 13y ago
If you want to include comments on your static site you might enjoy this project: https://github.com/skx/e-comments/ https://github.com/skx/e-comments/