Three Weeks: layouts

[branchandroot]

I like this one.

Day 8: What is your philosophy on journal layouts?

I have a couple different ones for different purposes.

1) You can have as eye burning a layout as you like, just as long as I am not required to read in it! I will even make layouts in colors I would never, ever use myself, because it's only fair really, but I don't want it inflicted on my retina when I go to read your stuff. This is a big reason I less-than-three Dreamwidth forever. That setting that lets me view all cuts and links in my own style? Brilliant.

2) The geometry of layouts I design will always be fairly simple and have a fair bit of elbow room between components. This is just me, that's what triggers my "yes, that looks good" response, so that's what I create.

3) What I, personally, like includes: black on white reading space! I am really not good with even lightly tinted reading backgrounds or text. This is a text journal, not a photo journal, I want to be able to read walls o' text easily. This does not, however, mean that the frames and backgrounds and sidebars can't be colored, because I actually prefer that; it sets off the text space nicely and makes the whole thing pretty.

If you infer by all this design-thought that I am currently in the middle of a bout of design-madness, you would be right. It's /way/ more fun than grading the stack of papers that's due to land on my desk tonight.

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[annotated_em]

Everything is more fun than grading a stack of papers, up to and including scrubbing the bathroom and cleaning out the cat box.

Is it wrong and bad of me that there's a part of my soul that sometimes wants to write the grad school AU for KHR, mostly so I can make Gokudera a tormented graduate student of some stripe? He's in physics and Mukuro's in philosophy and I think Hibari's in law, and Ryouhei and Yamamoto are both over in something Human Movement/Sport/Leisure Studies or something, and Chrome is in Psychology, and ... yeah, I'm probably overthinking this, given that I basically just want to write the one where Gokudera rants about the evils of grading and undergraduates.

[dragonwolf]

And I <3 you for your layout designs. :)

-A happy user of one of your designs