This Valentine's Day, Typography Über Alles!

Feb 14, 2012 01:59

Hederas, not hearts! Ampersands, not amore! Interrobangs, not- actually, I think the interrobangs could go either way.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is a quadruple entendre, I do believe.





Wait, what was my point again? Oh yes. My Bee Keeper's Quilt is going to need upwards of 850 hexagons, so I guess that there's room in there for both hearts and hederas. But I think the balance will be slightly shifted in typography's favor. (I am digging the alphabetical merit badges on amylbri' ravelry and think I must do up some of my own. Perhaps in the style of Dana Tanamachi's chalkboard typography, since the design-fu is strong with her.)

I've also been putting together little color study honeycombs, I don't know if I've mentioned? There are certainly lots of random combinations to put together, filling out the spaces between some of the more deliberate honeycombs. But sneaking in a plain old color study now and then helps keep things from getting too crazy while still preserving the feeling of randomness. It also keeps me on track with my overall color theory. Everyone is pretty much playing well with everyone else, as you can see:













(You know of course that if I had to do it all over again it would just be a thousand different shades of tree-bark-grey, right? Because I'm me?)

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