Hello everyone! My name is Jacqui McGuire-Day and this is the first blog that I've ever created. I am excited to use it as I learn techniques and skills to become a school librarian.
I fell in love with this background as soon as I saw it. I think it is perfect for my blog because I love the energy of the design and the colors. The font that I chose for the text is Open Sans, a sans serif font, because Reynolds (2014) states that serif fonts "work better on computer screens as they lack the counter strokes and thin lines of serif typefaces that can be hard to read at low resolutions" (p. 40). The font I chose for the title is Droid sans. I wanted to create harmony by using typefaces from the same sans serif font family for the both title and text (Reynolds, 2014). I chose a dark brown color for the title because I wanted it to stand out.
Enjoy, and I look forward to many discussions to come!
References
Reynolds, G. (2014). Presentation Zen design: A simple visual approach to presenting in today's world. Berkeley, CA: New Riders.
Wordle (n.d.). Retrieved May 21, 2016 from http://www.wordle.net/
I love the vibrancy of your page!
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun, energetic background. Where, exactly, did you find it? I looked for some fun themes, but failed to find any fun ones.
ReplyDeleteI actually found the background by accident. I was customizing one of the templates and stumbled across it.
DeleteThis background is great! It has a very summer feeling to me...and we're all counting down right. :) It also works well because blogger puts your post in the a white box so the font is still very easy to read. I found the blog archive section different where the word welcome is displayed vertically instead of horizontally (maybe that's just on my computer???). Great job on your first post!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Mia! And it's not just your computer. The blog archive section does read vertically. It has been driving me crazy for days, but I haven't figured out how to fix it! :)
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