Site Renovation
Dreaming/Designing in Green
I’ve been getting a lot of minimalist green-and-white designs popping into my head lately. I think it has to do with using Coda so much lately (their default icon is a green leaf), but I like to follow any (day)dream ideas through. My favourite ideas — for everything from songs to essays — usually start in my subconscious.
Green has been my favourite colour for as long as I can remember. My eyes are green. I’m a vegetarian. My powerbar is green. But, I usually avoid green with design. It insists on itself too much to be subtle, and I find it very overpowering when used as a base colour. In other words, I’m not yet good enough to effectively use green and I get no practice with it.
So, I made this site green — I think it works. Links are obviously links and posts are distinguishable from each other. I didn’t mean to make it green though — I started out intending to make it more minimal. But, when I was done hacking away at everything, the red started annoying me.
Green
From Color: Messages and Meanings, A Pantone Color Reference by Leatrice Eiseman:
With a multitude of greens so plentifully in the surrounding world, the human eye literally sees more green than any other color. As a result, there are many moods that green can convey. A majority of people see green as symbolic of nature and “new beginning” as green refreshes, restores and reaffirms that the seasons repeat in exactly the same sequence every year, always heralded by the emergence of the tender young green shoots in spring. An abundance of green indicates that there is available water — so necessary for human survival. As a result, humans respond on a very visceral level to the reassuring presence of green.
Comments
You could be using Green and White because Starbucks Coffee is finally infecting your design sensibilities.
There’s something very iTunes about the combination too. Ironically, while Green is the colour of the planet, environmental and organic themes, the colour is also perceived as the colour of technology.
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