Shorts
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Shorts v.3: Light & Dark
At least, I think this is the third iteration of the design. I thought I would be able to settle with Gotham and Helvetica. I mean, seriously, it’s Helvetica! But the previous look was too cluttered. Changing and tweaking things around I got caught up in adding useless little things that were neither functional nor pleasing.
So I started from scratch, and tried my best not to change the Tumblr sample template code, keeping all the customisations to the CSS. I tried to keep things instinctual, rather than think too much about them. I think this goes back to bringing the focus to the text. No fancy typefaces or flashy colours either. Just serif. Beautiful, simple serif.
The idea for the short bio on the right was something I borrowed from Cameron Moll’s tumblog. I tried to keep it light so that reading it a thousand times wouldn’t get on people’s nerves. I might add some more things to the “bio-bar” in the future, but it seems perfect for now. However, I couldn’t leave things that simple.
Day & Night
I have two themes for the different phases of the day. At night—or what I hope is night for you—it changes to light on dark mode, and during the day the opposite. It’s a little gimmicky, sure, but it was the easiest way to get the best of both worlds. The light mode is really easy on the eyes, with subtle highlights in the right places. The dark mode is a little interesting.
Without going into the differences in rendering between Windows and Macs, the rendering for light-on-dark text on this side of the fence is a lot denser. Bold light-on-dark text is a massacre. So I had to change all the bold weights to normal. The contrast is lower as well, but I’m sure nobody who might be bothered by things like that will actually be interested in what I put up here.
I like this. It’s comfortable and easy and makes me want to write again. That’s always a good thing.
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