For the Astronomy Picture of the Day. Black background. All typography is executed with Palatino. Plenty of type variation with italics, small caps, bold, all-caps. Explanation body text is restricted to 600px wide, for better legibility. Navigation links on bottom look like navigation links. Body width is restricted to 900px to give the entire content some cohesion and bring the site out of 1998. The style works well in other pages, like the calendar and archive, and also holds up for nearly every photo going back to 1996. There are some quirks, like Flash content might have no top margin.
v 1.1 - removed picture border, changed the way text colours are assigned, modified visited link colour, modified headline colour. v 1 - INITIAL RELEASE black background and subtle gray text makes the Astronomy Picture of the Day "pop" font changed to sans-serif so it will use your default font.
Changes fonts from Ariel, if possible, to a more appropriate and eye-pleasing font on Windows, Mac and Linux. Changes the font size to medium. Adjusts the line height to be less cramped. UPDATED: 6 June 2011
I just thought that this page needed a black background. I also shrunk the header a bit.
There are a couple of other dark Astronomy picture of the Day ("style 2426 and 11392")styles but neither addressed the margin issue where the text runs from one side of the screen to the other and I thought their text was too dark and small. I had written one to give it margins that I had been using, incorporated their idea to give it a black background and remove the boarder around the images. I also made the text easier to read being a shade of white instead of grey. I used an .em font size instead of a .px size they had used which will size the text to your default. Made the links a little brighter than the text and underlined, change when they are selected, active, or visited. Made bold text slightly bigger and brighter than regular text. Set the default color of text to snow color that wasn't inside some other in-line element such as P or B which the other two neglected (this left some text still black and invisible) by setting the the text color style for body of the page.
