I’m starting another redesign of this site’s theme. The current theme, at the time of this writing white, brown, and rust was sort a conglomeration of new theme ideas that I never quite finished. For instance, although I like some of the color experimentation that I did here, this theme doesn’t really have a complete color palette. While the colors mostly “go” together, a sort of cohesive color theory is missing.
As usual, when I started setting about to fix that, and having worked on a bunch of new themes since then, things went in a totally new direction. I think the new theme will not only be better, but you will be able to say, now that is a well thought out and complete theme.
A have to say, though, that creating a good color palette in some ways is the most difficult part of a theme. I realize now that I need to have some base concept to be my inspiration. This can be a building or a place or a picture, and can guide the theme and provide colors as well.
Without that base inspiration, I run into creative dead ends where things just stop making sense.
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