• canary yellow for president

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    • July 8th, 2008
    • 02:40:15 PM

    the progress pile progresses
    The progress pile progresses.

    Colors. That’s the name of one of my favorite magazines. It’s also what I’m going to write about.

    I’ve been setting a lot of limits on the design for this project. This many fonts, that many font sizes, width A or width B, and color choices 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6. In this sense, the design has become very technical. Maybe I should get out my Schaedler Rules. Of course, there is still tons of room for creativity, but this project requires creativity supplemented with a technical eye and a disciplined consistency. Yes! A big part of this project is the organization and presentation of lots and lots of information. When you have lots and lots, it’s usually a good idea to set some limits. It helps you design, and it helps users understand. Simple enough concept: if things are consistent, they are easier to understand. Quote that.

    Huh, guess I didn’t write about colors. Well, did I mention I’m using a red, white and blue color palette? But it doesn’t look patriotic at all, not that there’s anything wrong with that.

    Comments

    kevin July 8th, 2008 at 2:48 pm

    America… F*CK yea!!!11

    Wait, we’re not using patriotic colors?

    *disappointment*

    andyVan July 8th, 2008 at 2:48 pm

    Great post Erin! For those of you who don’t know what Schaedler Rules are, here’s a link. There. I just saved you a few minutes of Googling/Wikiing around. (I didn’t know what they were either - and I’m a designer too, or at least I claim to be.)

    andyVan July 8th, 2008 at 2:56 pm

    I think all web-related apps should be smart enough to compensate the large vacuum between human intentions and human actions.

    I just commented that I am posting a link – but got carried away while typing and didn’t post that link. All software should have a pop-up saying “did you mean to post a link, you idiotic human?” It should randomly pop up no matter what you are doing because chances are, you forgot to attach a link or attachment.

    Fact: If I could stack 84% of 2/3 of all the times I forgot to attach a link or attacment, they would reach a majority of the way to the moon, at low tide. (source: wikipedia)

    After this comment, I’ll write an AppleScript for this (warning: do not hold your breath or email me asking for that AppleScript. This is just good intentions, no action will be applied – I promise. Also, I can’t write AppleScripts. In fact, I don’t think the ’s’ in Applescript is supposed to be capitalized.)

    andyVan July 8th, 2008 at 2:57 pm

    Drat. I just proved my case in point.

    Here’s that link:

    http://www.schaedlerprecision.com

    Now go measure all of your coffee cups… now.

    allyn July 8th, 2008 at 3:17 pm

    Andy, are you sure that’s coffee?