Five New Styles

Barring the glitch mentioned in this thread (which you'll see if you click on the "Your Library" tab), I think these five new styles are ready to go.

I prefer a cleaner, more elegant/sleek look to sites, rather than the casual/ colorful/ pseudo-'youthful' look of sites like Flickr, the default LT, etc. I'd like if it we could retain at least a couple of these (or something similar) as options when offering custom designs in future.

I'm attracted to the minimalism of some of your designs—#1 particularly. But, man, I can't take the font Papyrus! :)

That is a surprise. I decided on Papyrus because I thought you would like that font (since the overall design/texture is the closest to the default one.)

Ex ... I have no idea how this stuff works, but just a bit of feedback: I REALLY REALLY LIKE the font in Existanai3 that you used for "What's on your bookshelf?" -- it's so pretty!! Unfortunately, the mix of colors in that style doesn't quite have the contrast - the talk topic page, for example -- it just doesn't seem to work as well there. I like the blues in your style # 5 - and Tim is right, style # 1 is kinda cool too. I think I like your styles best of the ones I've tried, but mainly CERTAIN PARTS of the different styles.

I don't know if I'm making any sense, must run - but wanted to give you a thumbs up on your attempts, very creative. :-)

Hey HMF - the pretty font is called Zapfino.

I'm not sure what you mean by the mix/contrast - could you be a little more specific? Do you mean the colours for visited vs. active links are not distinct?

I like the feedback, and would appreciate more suggestions. Keep the fan mail coming :) !

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Hi again --- yes, I think it's the colors for links (visited vs. not recently visited) - when I look at the talk topics, the difference between the two colors is so slight, I can't tell which ones I've recently checked from the ones I haven't. I LIKE the colors, but that's the main shortcoming for me on that style.

I'm curious to know where this Papyrus font is that Tim doesn't like - that you really thought he WOULD like! That's just too funny.

If I have any more thoughts or notice anything else, I'll let you know. :-)

I agree with your minimalist tendencies, but some of these examples don't seem all that minimalist to me--overlapping fonts, different (unmatched) fonts all over the page...

As far as colour goes, I like #2 the best, BUT--the white background seems very harsh. (I think it's known black-white and similar contrasts strain eyesight the most.) I'd prefer a tinted background. I also like the tabs in #2, just the right size/balance.