archive for December 2007

Django and Cairo: Rendering Pretty Titles

One of the overwhelming horrors of designing for the web (or so it would appear from a lot of the mockups I've seen) is that designers (and people who are just bored of Arial and Times New roman) want to make their titles on web pages using non-standard fonts. "But that's shockingly non-accessible and uses more bandwidth", I hear you cry; well, there's a reason the alt tag is around, and why broadband is much more common.

Posted 15th December 2007 in Web Design, Python, and Django, with 8 comments