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ePub Zen Garden contribution: Contact

I love this new design for the ePub Zen Garden from Anthony Caccese, based on his favorite edition of Contact by Carl Sagan:

The chapter headings look especially great:

Thank you Anthony!

New ePub Zen Garden style: Tribute by Gordon Grace

This is a lovely style (I like the “Part” pages especially) with a great cover:

Thank you to Gordon Grace for providing it!

New ePub Zen Garden styles: Seneca, Carter, Jost

Three new styles for ePub Zen Garden from Mike Fallows, who has also blogged about his contributions, describing the various inspirations.
Seneca

Carter

Jost

New ePub Zen Garden style: Gibson by Adam Scott

The ePub Zen Garden was featured in the recent article Web Standards for E-books by Joe Clark at A List Apart. I highly recommend it.
Thanks to that publicity bump we’ve got a new contribution: Gibson, by Adam Scott. Thank you!

Three JavaScript ePub Readers

The last few weeks have seen a tremendous increase in interest about ePub. Many new blog posts have been written trying to explain the format. We’ve also seen a big jump in the number of publishers coming to Threepress for help with tricky ePub problems or just asking for guidance about the format. While I’d [...]

New ePub Zen Garden contribution: GBS

This is really funny if you get the joke, and still a nice style if you don’t. Thanks Kirk Biglione!

New ePub Zen Garden contribution: Modern 2

Another clean, minimalist style from Reece Dunn, with a nice use of small-caps:

Adding small caps to only the first line of a chapter:

#content > p.noindent:first-line
{
font-variant: small-caps;
}

where #content is the containing block that holds the ebook.

New ePub Zen Garden contribution: Modern 1

Thank you to Reece Dunn for this nice use of CSS typography and generous white space:

New ePub Zen Garden style: Traditional

Thanks to Martin Jenny for a lovely “traditional” style for ePub Zen Garden, using embedded fonts for the headings (use Safari 4 or Firefox 3.5).

First ePub Zen Garden user contribution: Terminal

I am obliged to disclaim that Keith Fahlgren made this awesome style within minutes of the site launch and I sat on it for weeks. I am lame.

There are a few easter eggs in it for other programmers to appreciate.