April 2, 2007 at 12:28AM Potential new design: Northwest
This design’s getting a bit old, isn’t it? So I’ve been trying out a few newer, cleaner designs lately. One of them is called Northwest and is inspired by the new logo design I did for the site. It’s primarily a clean-up of a minimalist experiment I did ages back. Take a peek and tell me what you think. In particular, if you’re using Firefox, try resizing the font. ![[smile]](/images/smilies/smile.gif){kind=small}
And yes, it’s meant to be as minimalist as it is. The focus is on good typography rather than mindblowing graphic design. There’ll be more in there (such as the redesigned logo in the top left and extra navigation in the footer), but the bulk of the work’s already there.
Here’s what you ought to see (click to zoom):
And here’s what you’ll see if you bump the font size up twice with CTRL-+:
It looks best with Perpetua, but any Palatino variant will work just fine.
Update: Quick tweak to add a line across the top to break up the monotony and taken from an older potential design, and added an breadcrumb trail. Now I just have to decide where I’m going to put the search form...
1 On April 2, 2007 at 6:34, Revence 27 wrote:
Neat. Is the navbar going to stay down there? That’s novel! It also makes the whole layout say
I am about the content, not the meta crap’. Which is cool.Only you’d have to keep the things short, because the readers should get to see the navbar.
Also, nothing can (worthily) replace your current logo, where you look like you just released an album called
The Golden Age of Grotesque’.2 On April 2, 2007 at 6:38, Revence 27 wrote:
Oh, Lord.
3 On April 2, 2007 at 9:43, Keith wrote:
Revence, it looks nothing like that album cover. It was inspired by the Thalamus Ltd. logo.
4 On May 9, 2007 at 11:47, danger wrote:
Looks awful with the serif font. I also dislike the colours immensely. It’s not even live and it looks older/crustier than the current design.
5 On September 14, 2007 at 14:22, Keith wrote:
Hmmm... noted...