https://gkn.me.uk/entries/vegaGrey Nicholsonhttps://gkn.me.uk/style/icon.svg2025-10-21T12:11:00+00:00 https://gkn.me.uk/vega22005-08-20T16:23:00+00:002005-08-20T16:23:00+00:00

Mooquackwooftweetmeow in more colour

<p> The process was bloody tedious but the site's now even colourfuller - this is <em>Vega <strong>2</strong></em>. </p> <p> Grey's now an endangered species about these parts. ...Well, proper grey - all of the “black” text is actually grey, bar the main title. But you see my point - more colourifficness. Yay. </p> <p> The aforementioned tedium came from having to calculate several background colours for each hue - 60 colours in total. It was just a matter of typing one number into <a href="http://www.inkscape.org">Inkscape</a> and copying out the colour code generated by it, but it was somewhat boring to do sixty times. </p> <p> Just too much dedication - that's my problem. </p> https://gkn.me.uk/vega2005-07-30T17:55:00+00:002005-09-04T04:35:00+00:00

Mooquackwooftweetmeow in colour

<p> Yesterday I changed the site's design. I decided a while back that <a href="/thestyleswitcherisdead" title="The Style Switcher is Dead; Long Live CSS">I didn't want multiple styles any more</a>. </p> <p> The main idea behind <a href="/workinprogress" title="Work-in-progress">Sirius, an alternate style that never got off the ground</a>, was to add a bit of colour to the site. Of course, being me, I couldn't decide on which colour to use so I decided to have them rotate per page. I picked some colours and applied them as background colours in Sirius; here I've used them mainly as text colours but also as the colour of the background image. <ins><a href="/vega2" title="Vega 2">And the background colours.</a></ins> I'll let you figure out the criterion for each page's colour yourself. </p> <p> The overall design of Sirius was mainly inspired by <a href="http://stopdesign.com/log/2004/06/08/reloaded.html">Stopdesign v3</a>, but my <a href="http://gimp.org">GIMP</a> mojo is far too limited to match that sort of detailed quality. So I've decided to stick with the more minimalistic style that I'm reasonably good at. </p> <p> I call the new style <em>Vega</em>. Yes, it's very similar to Arcturus (it's actually just a modification of Arcturus) but it is a distinctly different style. Arcturus' “starburst” logo has been kept as the background image. I was going to also use it as the site's icon thereby making it into an all-out Mooquackwooftweetmeow logo, but it doesn't look very distinct at 16 pixels square. Besides, Mooquackwooftweetmeow is just a collection of stuff by me so it's OK to continue using the “GKN” emblem. </p>