The color scheme here is a bit me-centric, but I am mostly posting it because I find the typography pleasing…. In my .emacs file, I have set up the org-export-headline-levels to two and the org-export-html-style to the following:
;;; .emacs.lisp
(setq org-export-html-style
"<style type="text/css">#<:use "style.css"></style>")
(setq org-export-html-style
"<style type="text/css">#<:use "style.css"></style>")
# style.css
<<basic body style>>
<<header style>>
<<content style>>
<<basic body style>>
<<header style>>
<<content style>>
The basic body has no margin and a pleasing (to me) khaki color.
# basic body style
body {
background-color: #999966;
margin: 0em;
}
body {
background-color: #999966;
margin: 0em;
}
The headers are carefully sized to try to take up a multiple of 1.4em with a consistent bottom margin.
# header style
h1 {
font-size: 2.0em;
margin-top: 1.9em;
margin-bottom: 0.3em;
}
h2 {
font-size: 1.5em;
margin-top: 2.4em;
margin-bottom: 0.3em;
}
h3 {
font-size: 1.25em;
margin-top: 1.25em;
margin-bottom: 0.3em;
}
h1 {
font-size: 2.0em;
margin-top: 1.9em;
margin-bottom: 0.3em;
}
h2 {
font-size: 1.5em;
margin-top: 2.4em;
margin-bottom: 0.3em;
}
h3 {
font-size: 1.25em;
margin-top: 1.25em;
margin-bottom: 0.3em;
}
The main body is a pale yellow color with vertical borders. It’s got a decent font (the one that I have by default for my browser) with a slight tweak to the letter spacing and a big tweak to the leading. It keeps from getting too wide and stays centered. Oh, and I don’t skip space before lists.
# content style
div#content {
background-color: #ffffcc;
border-left: double #333300 3mm;
border-right: double #333300 3mm;
font-family: Times, serif;
letter-spacing: 0.075em;
line-height: 1.4;
margin: 0em auto;
padding: 2em;
width: 45em;
}
ul {
margin: 0;
}
div#content {
background-color: #ffffcc;
border-left: double #333300 3mm;
border-right: double #333300 3mm;
font-family: Times, serif;
letter-spacing: 0.075em;
line-height: 1.4;
margin: 0em auto;
padding: 2em;
width: 45em;
}
ul {
margin: 0;
}
Here is some sample output.