Colour

Logo design where 1 + 1 = 3 !

By Johan on May 28th, 2006.

Making a logo?

In a nutshell … a logo of a website is part of the brand of a website. Not to sound like a wiki but let’s regurgitate the definitions. It is a name, symbol, monogram, emblem, trademark, or other graphic device designed for easy and definitive recognition by …

Is readability a black and white issue?

By Andrew Whitacre on March 3rd, 2006.

You’re probably not a stranger to the real, physical pain of reading a lot of text online.

Between e-mails, blogs, news sources, and literary sites—let alone on-screen reading required for our jobs—we read a lot of long-form writing every day. And much of it is terribly designed when it comes to …

Living the highlight - Banners

By Andrew Faulkner on January 11th, 2006.

Something short and sweet:

Noticed some of the basic ‘banners’ on sites these days? Simple solid colour backgrounds on banners are slowly being replaced by a very slight gradient - a highlight at the top of the banner.

Examples:

Pixelpanic
CSS Beauty
Q-design
Capture
Ordered List

Why is this ‘in’? That’s something I …

A Darker Web?

By Derek Brown on December 18th, 2005.

Browsing through some of the upcoming websites at the Museum of Modern Betas, I noticed something a little, well, different. Many of the new ‘Web 2.0′ pages were getting darker. As in color. As in black. As in very little white. See for yourself:

Dark Eye
Eurekster Swicki
Inquisitor …

The Return Of Cream

By Andrew Faulkner on December 12th, 2005.

Think back now to the late nineties and imagine an amateur webpage - got it? Now what colours does it contain? I can bet that your background is a creamy beige colour. Yes?

The very fact that many websites with cream backgrounds existed put them out of fashion. Every time I …

Break Out the Earth Tones

By Phil Renaud on September 30th, 2005.

It’s nearing the end of September, and the change of season to Autumn hardly goes unnoticed. ‘Tis the season where we leave the patios and beaches behind and yield our afternoons to raking leaves off the front lawn.

At the car dealership down the street, all the display models are a …