On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Theresa Mesa <trixiesirishe...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I dunno...the site is causing some cognitive dissonance for me. I'm > also a fine artist, a commissioned portraitist, and textile artist, in > addition to being a graphic designer and web designer. Looking at > Russell Drysdale's work, there's an organic flow and logic to the > thick and thin, a push-pull to the lights and darks, to the tints and > the saturated color. Here, there is a dichotomy between the organic > flow of the stroke in Zapfino, and the boxy, thick outlines of the > images and rules. I don't see a correlation. The logo could go either > way, but I don't think it functions as a bridge between the style of > the font and the thick outlines of the images to form a cohesive whole. > > Is the site for a man or a woman? There is a decidedly feminine cast > to the site. Zapfino is a very feminine font. <shrug> Not all script > fonts are feminine, but this one is. Maybe that's not a problem. > > But then we are out of the purview of CSS, so I expect our knuckles > shall be rapped with the ruler shortly. > > Theresa Mesa > Ooh, I love it when you artists talk dirty like that! Yes, I imagine we shall all be getting our knuckles rapped shortly. But in the meantime, isn't it nice to have some help getting our sheets styled? ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
