The wonder of creativity

[winter]

Half the fun of visual design, for me, is getting sidetracked in all the little things. After a whole day devoted to layout (conclusion: width fixed in ems, single-column, sidebar widgets in a horizontal container between the banner and the main layout), now it's colour choices and colour theory. For the LJ redesign I'm considering, I've promised fyrie that I'll have a Maki Ichiro layout to match her Saki Asaji one. To match the picture, I'll need colours a little more varied than my current black and white. Cue way too much fun with online Pantone swatches.

Below, a quick mockup of the current top-runners. Saturation may still get put down, and I think I might opt for a grey background with the deep purple used for flourishes on it.

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Now to come up with matching colours for visited, hovered-over and active links. Then I can actually open a graphics program ;)

This has been your Content Nonstrike post for the day. And boy, is my f-list rocking.

Comments

[winter]

Not to mention that the pr0n thing was never allowed ;) And it looks like the RPers will be able to create their basic journals anyway, once SUP works it out.

Really, storm in a teacup. I'm much more interested in whether I can make my purple more interesting by going 2 clicks closer in hue to blue :P

[alice_montrose]

Argh. Why can't RPers be more responsible? Like you and fyrie, for example?

Have fun with the colours. I know I normally do. XD

[winter]

Possibly because they can't keep track of icons and need usernames to remember which characters they're playing ;)