Report Cards: What changed and why

I mentioned in a prior post that I’d noticed the report cards and the grades were inconsistent. Nobody asked about it, but it bugged me, so I’ve gone in and tidied things up a bit. Graphics The card at the top of every report card is now generated. For years I hand-built each one. Not only were there inconsistencies, but it meant I occasionally had to do rework. But now the site builds the card itself using the same layout, type sizes, and spacing every time. Twenty-four of the twenty-eight report cards have the new cards today; the remaining four (Battlestar Galactica, Wall•E, The Star Wars Holiday Special, and Black Panther) still wear their old ones until I dig up artwork for them. The nitty gritty details of this follow… I recreated the background of the card, which had been a half-assed kind of blurry thing for a decade +. Now there are nice sharp edges with lines that reflect the book cover much better. Title treatments are trimmed to their visible pixels and centered in a fixed…

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