Design by Elle

{ designer; developer; freelance; }

Colophon

This website was designed on my MacBook Pro using Illustrator. Developed with Textmate, CSSEdit and Coda. Made with Ruby and is powered by Radiant CMS. Lastly, this site is hosted by Rails Playground.

The site design uses a 12 column grid of 60px each with 20px gutters. The design attempts to utilise advanced capabilities of CSS and web typography with the use of minimal imagery. The site’s design is optimised to modern standard-compliant browsers. Internet Explorer 6 is not one of those. Therefore, the design has been downgraded to work with IE6. I strongly recommend upgrading your browser to either Firefox, Safari or Opera.

Typographic Details

All texts are set in Liberation Serif; except for code snippets, which are set in ‘Courier New.’ Ascender designed and developed the Liberation set of fonts for Red Hat as a custom font development project. If you lack the Liberation type family (which by the way is available in serif, sans and mono faces), you can download it from either the Red Hat website or from Fedora Hosted. It is a freely available and open source.

If your browser of choice is Safari 3.x, you should be able to view this site as intended due to CSS3 @font-face. In other browsers and if you lack the Liberation type family; all texts will be set in Georgia typeface instead.