Purple is the new Pink
Category: Design...
Posted Sunday, January 02, 2005 at 10:07 PM [GMT-6]

Adam Polselli has published his eagerly-awaited "2005 Color Predictions," in which he augurs up the hues we'll be likely to be sick of come next New Year's Day.

You gotta love an article with lines like "Desaturated purples such as DAD1E9 and 5E4D80 will rule all others" and "I picture a sort of grunge-goes-neon theme, with shock value being a top priority among designers..."

I feel some inspiration coming on for a new Gazette design. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Tip of the artiste's chapeau to Digital Web Magazine.

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I like how hex values sometimes almost spell something (moreso when you read 1 as I or L, 4 as A, 3 as E, etc...)
My favorites from this group, based on pronounce-ability:

CBAFED and DAD1E9

Followed by the this year's variation on "foo," the official programmer's placeholder: FFFF00

Definitions, anyone?

Posted by: bb at January 3, 2005 07:00 AM

Your yellow and green visually depicts the beauty and life of the desert. Still, sometimes a change is good, just for its own sake. Here's two possible directions you could go. First, a serious "desert" theme.

RGB values like (159, 136, 112), (208, 207, 176) (159, 143, 112) (128, 120, 96) (191, 160 112)

Second, Hello Kitty World colors! (my personal choice)

RGB values like Hello Kitty Ultra Pink (255, 64, 255), Hello Kitty Light Pink (255, 127, 255)

Hello Kitty's colors are a good choice for a positive blog.

Hello Kitty is a being who is completely sweet and kind and good. Hers is an idealized world very different than our own. None of our human evils exist in Hello Kitty's world.

Posted by: Mr. Freen at January 3, 2005 12:03 PM

Sorry, Mr. Freen; pink is, like, so 2004.

Posted by: Eric at January 4, 2005 08:28 AM

I remember reading last year, "Pink is the new neutral."

*gag*

Yeah, right. Nothing neutral about pink. And since my roommate in 7th grade who loved pink and wore it *every single day* I have not been able to stomach the color. Except in very small doses.

Thanks to Tim at Challies.com, TulipGirl has had a makeover. Notice the miniscule touches of pink.


Posted by: TulipGirl at January 4, 2005 11:34 AM

TG, I do like your new blog design! Very soothing and very professional. Tim did a great job...and I hardly noticed the pink at all. (It helps that I'm sorta colorblind, I think. ;-)

Posted by: Eric at January 4, 2005 03:00 PM
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