I decided that the splash page that was at http://zethrae.us before was boring, pointless and less than visually interesting, so in a rabid fit of designing, I whipped up this one.
The logo is the only real piece of design I’ve done for the page. It is based on a concept I came up with a few months ago but never had the time to develop until this winter break. I plan to use it as an identity thing for a while, replacing my older tri-blob one which I made some time during high school.
I had to spend a fair amount of time working out how to allude to each of the logos of my favorite and most relevant social networks, and I’m quit happy with the results there, even if due to text rendering working differently across browsers the alignment is likely to be imperfect in many cases. It looks fine in mozilla and webkit browsers anyway.
I tried to find and use the same font for each of the logos, and use it in as close to the same style as contextually possible. This meant changing the text color to its original background color in the cases of Last.fm’s and Facebook’s and reworking Dopplr’s. Twitter’s doesn’t use a publicly available font, so I had to improvise slightly and use SparkyType’s Chickens. Flickr uses Frutiger 75 Black, Facebook uses Klavika Bold, Last.fm uses ITC Ronda and delicious uses Arial (but as browser text). I’m not quite sure which font Dopplr employs but the imitation in a basic sans-serif font was fine.
Anyway, I’d love to know what you think of the new page. I’m also going to be designing the contact and design pages soon.