A quick update
So I decided to do a very quick change-up of the site. I haven’t been able to have the time to properly do this ever since I came to Waterloo. I had something a lot more ambitious planned, but I couldn’t do it given what I knew how to do at the moment and the amount of time that I had. Oh well. This will have to do for now. I’m fairly satisfied I got rid of a bunch of colours and made everything more clean, but I really wanted to get my new-ish logo up, which I really, really prefer to the old one.
I guess the old site wasn’t as minimal I’d hoped or as it should have been. I mean, the blog’s title is less blkmage, but the site design didn’t convey that too well. I had too much of everything. I had too much colour, too many things cluttering up the sidebar, too many things in my CSS file. I spent much of my time just getting rid of things. In the end, I ended up with a simple colour scheme: black, white, and hat red.
I particularly like the new logo because the new typeface, FF Kievit, is much friendlier than the Trade Gothic I’d used before. Also, for some reason, I thought that mixing weights and colours in it would be pretty cool, but the more I looked at it, the more awkward it became. The nice thing about Kievit is that it comes with a small caps variant. I love setting things in small caps.
To me, small caps and text figures feel very elegant to me. It could be that I’m being an elitist jerk and the fact that very few fonts come with proper small caps and text figures makes me gravitate towards them. But, really, they look so damn nice. It’s the same way when you look at text set with proper ligatures. It feels correct and not cheap, like most printed material today.
In conclusion, I wish I had all the time in the world and small caps and text figures are cool. Use them more.
Tags: Design
new contrast is nice
by the way, your site looks broked on my ie7. not a big deal for me tho.