Color Scheme: Watermelon

Posted by Kara Kane on Jul 01 2008 | Uncategorized

July is for picnics, hot dogs, fireworks, and one of my favorite summer-time snacks, watermelon.

Watermelon color scheme

From the left: #2d4d2d (dark green); #c1b642 (lighter green); #c43139 (watermelon pink); #f4cdbe (lighter pink); #1b0723 (dark black).

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Font Friday: Lauren Script

Posted by Kara Kane on Jun 27 2008 | Design

As a rule, I don’t like script fonts. They’re hard to read and not very useful to do the things I do. Even for formal invitations and the like, scriptyness and I just don’t get along.

Lauren Script

I don’t like how the font scales down, or how it scales up. If I saw someone with handwriting like this, I’d think it was awesome. But this isn’t handwriting, it’s a typeface, and it just doesn’t work for me.

Lauren Script

I have a good friend named Lauren, and I suppose if I ever had to make a poster for her, I’d look to this font first! I’d love to have a font named after me. “Kara” would be bold and stylish, would definitely not have extraneous serifs, and the K would have something cool and clever to differentiate it from all the other letters.

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Font Friday: Boring Lesson

Posted by Kara Kane on Jun 20 2008 | Design

Here’s one for all you teachers out there.

Boring Lesson

Another good name for this would have been “Nails on a chalkboard.” Imagine the pitted black surface of a chalkboard and clouds of white dust. That’s what this font makes me think of. The letters are built a bit wide for my liking, but I think the concept works well.

Boring Lesson

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Font Friday: Blown Deadline

Posted by Kara Kane on Jun 13 2008 | Design

Generally, blown deadlines are something to avoid. The Blown Deadline font, however, is something to be embraced.

Blown Deadline

Look at the whimsical swirls on the G, J, t, 2 and 5! You think you’re dealing with a regular serif, then BAM, the font throws you a whirl. It plays with angles and curves and really is quite lovely.

Blown Deadline

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