I've been working on the design, and obsessing slightly over details. So I thought I'd do a poll. Please vote for the one you like best!
#1 (First try) ~ 1.5"wide by 6" long
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#2: (Scripty) I keep thinking that a romance blog ought to have a big fancy flowing cursive script for the title, but I didn't find any that I loved, so I just kind of stuck with italicized Times New Roman. This one has a scripty font, but I'm not sure I love it. Also ~ 1.5"wide by 6" long.
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#3 (Roomy) I thought the text was cluttering up the image a bit, so I moved part of it off to the side. Not sure I love the 90-degree text, but it looked weirder on the horizontal. This one would probably be longer, like 1.5"x 7".
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4. (Fatso) This one is the most like my header here, but I'm not wild about the proportions. I think it would come out about 2"x6", possibly 2.25x6.
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Vote!
9 comments:
I voted for the room version. As far as fonts go, if I make make a suggestion, I'd try out Porcelain or Selfish. Both are romantic script fonts that might work. But fonts are always a matter of taste, of course.
I liked "fatso" best, but they are all good so you can't go wrong.
:o)
I like the Roomy one, but don't like the text orientation on the end... but Fatso's too wide. Hmm. Can you make the graphic a little narrower on Fatso?
I like the first try best as they exist, but I would have voted for the roomy version if there were a little more space between the "Alpha Heroes and the women who love them" line and the border of the photo. About a pica (.125) is the golden rule for space between lines/borders and text in newspaper design.
Love this idea, Nic.
What a great idea!!
Thanks for the input! I can definitely do some more tweaking.
Rikki, I'll definitely check out those fonts. I tend to fall back on a few really basic ones.
Betsy, that's exactly the kind of feedback I want! Mwah.
Chris, I can look at re-cropping the original photo. What I've used here is the exact version in the blog header.
Ms. M & CJ, thanks!
Ms. M & CJ,
I like all of them, and admire your ambition. I voted for #1.
Hey, can you do me a huge favor, and send me an email or give me yours in a comment ? I want to email you but I can't get the form to open.
Sure, I'm Nicola327@hotmail.com.
And thanks for voting!
I love all of those! I finally voted for "Roomy" but you can't go wrong with any of them. What a great idea!
And have you looked at the Moo cards too, as a means of letting people know about your blog? (www.moo.com) You can get 100 of these little cards fairly inexpensively, and put your own photo on the front with 5 lines of text on the back. The novelty alone makes people take notice.
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