Hm, I was sad to see my Diary template go, I saved it and will revert to it asap!
I chose and edited one of the simple template designs as instructed, and honestly am not a fan of the block coloring look to blogs or websites at all. It was educational playing with different color schemes and choices within the actual editor, though. Practice is essential.
I decided on an "accented analogic" color theme with the "less contrast" preset inside colorschemedesigner.com, a great resource that I will most likely use again. As my blog title is "cumquat" and I identify and like the idea of presenting myself as many of the orange color-qualities; exciting, creatve, fresh, but not as "corporate" as red, I chose a secondary color scheme with a base of orange and a compliment of turquoise. I used tints to tone down the background body, title background, and a shade of the turquoise for the header background as well as the visited links color.
My colors are warm, save for the cool blue-green of the post title background color, maybe I need more cool in there, I was going for warm, but this could be too warm. Repetition is created by the use of cool title background colors and constant warm tones elsewhere, this blue amongst the sea of oranges and red also creates contrast.
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