Better typography for IPython notebooks, now

I came across a long blog about how to make ipython notebooks more aesthetically pleasing recently, and I think there is a lot to be learned there.

The good news is that you can try this out on a notebook-by-notebook basis with a little trick. Just drop this into a cell in any IPython notebook:

import IPython.core.display

IPython.core.display.HTML("""

div.input {
width: 105ex; /* about 80 chars + buffer */
}

div.text_cell {
width: 105ex /* instead of 100%, */
}

div.text_cell_render {
/*font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif;*/
font-family: "Charis SIL", serif; /* Make non-code text serif. */
line-height: 145%; /* added for some line spacing of text. */
width: 105ex; /* instead of 'inherit' for shorter lines */
}

/* Set the size of the headers */
div.text_cell_render h1 {
font-size: 18pt;
}

div.text_cell_render h2 {
font-size: 14pt;
}

.CodeMirror {
 font-family: Consolas, monospace;
 }


""")