New Look for Gaming Ballistic
We’ll see if people like it or hate it. I hope it grows on y’all.
I wanted a logo that would look good on a red background, because I’d like to get a GB sweatshirt designed, and the red dice weren’t going to work.
So I recreated the dice using powerpoint (yeah, yeah) and put them in blue. Then I picked out a Blogger style with a red background.
I then used a program called Pixie by Nattyware to pick out the RGB colors of the pre-determined fade, and let PowerPoint match them, putting it behind my logo.
Upload, and it’s not bad.
I’m a few posts short from 300 posts, so it seemed time to make a change.
I can dig the logo, definitely. I'm not sure about the all red though; I feel like the different sections all bleed together a bit.
A wash in the red. A little break up in the color would be good. But, the important thing is I can still read everything without struggling. Some colors and fonts make it tough.
Agreed on the red being a little much.The logo looks good though.
It's not good. It's readable, but it's not good.
I don't know what other people are seeing, or not seeing, that makes them think it's not good. Looks fine to me. Readable (much better than white on black, as a couple of blogs I read do), reasonably pleasant, and distinctive.
I like it. Its refreshing. It takes some effort to set these things up and I find it pretty cool
Here's a vote against the red. It's simply awful. BRING BACK THE WHITE! 😉
Not too keen on the red. It's readable, but the white text is too stark against the red.
Also, it makes the various columns of the site blend together too much.
An addendum on my previous comment: The change on color has effects on previous posts on this blog. For example, your post on the effects of various skill levels on ranged combat has blue text in it, and it looks rather bad against the red.
http://gamingballistic.blogspot.com/2013/02/skill-levels-for-ranged-combat-in-gurps.html
Ooooh yeah, it makes some of your other posts look really awful. I don't mind the white on red so much overall, I just wish that everything (the columns, the different posts) didn't bleed together quite so much.
OK, OK, Convinced. Better, or worse?
Far better.
Better, though I still prefer the old style. However, this does seem usable, unlike the red.
I don't know why but this color combination reminds me of slacks. I have no idea what that means.
Hah! Has a sort of dockers and knit shirt feel, doesn't it.
It really is a shame the red-and-yellow look was pretty universally despised. I kinda thought it popped. But the point about older pictures was a good one.
I for one prefer the red to the yellow selected purely because the yellow selected veers a tad too close to 'vomit' for me. But I will continue reading regardless.
I welcome the new chambray and denim blog. I wish I'd seen the yellow on red, but it sounds a little… I guess loud?
I prefer straight-up black on white, but I can live with this color scheme. I look forward to more business-casual posts.
I read the posts through the RSS feed in my email client, so I don't care about the colour scheme except on the rare occasion there's something with graphics.