Ok, I know all you graphic designer/visually inspired types have a few things to say about the design, the colors, the fonts, the layout of this page. Please advise and I will modify/change. Additionally, any people you would like to add to this page, to receive and to publish et al., let me know that too.
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Color/Font/Layout Suggestions?
Ok, I know all you graphic designer/visually inspired types have a few things to say about the design, the colors, the fonts, the layout of this page. Please advise and I will modify/change. Additionally, any people you would like to add to this page, to receive and to publish et al., let me know that too.
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You use a font that resembles old school (god forbid....Courier-esque....dirtydirty) AND it's bitmapped. Therefore, it adds to the humor of the piece. Another more stylized font would be too forced.
It also speaks to a designer's choice of the overuse of the computer (and its fonts), ignoring the creation and voice of type. In detail, the computer places type and automates kerning (space between letters), leaving space that SHOULD annoy any good designer. And of course, there's the whole rant about the computer being overused and not just assigning it the label of "tool"......but I shrug and step off my soapbox...
BUT color could be cool. Depends on the humor you're going for. If you do a color, I'd go with a red for the aggressive nature and place red in some other small, subtle place...a sort of visual bookend. And adjust your contrast to the picture to a harsher black and white. Duotone would warm it up too much.
:)
-nikki
And now? I like the red background better, and I tried to tone down the harsh contrasting colors...some of what you said is Greek to me, can you translate for us style plebians?
I used Courier well beyond the point of what was acceptable in polite social circles; I like the egalitarian-ness of it, the very Marxism of it, every letter and symbol is given equal space. But I know it's "old school" which is a nice way of saying "passe."
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