After seeing Helvetica (the movie!), which I highly recommend (Erik Spiekermann, who created the MetaBook fonts used in Second Life, has such an attitude), I continued thinking about essentials of design: I have some attraction to minimalism in the arts, be it the droggy warmth of a Richie Hawtin track or the simplicity John Maeda is so well-known for, and in my own leanings, I've stripped this down to a palette of green, pink, some black, and if we're especially good, yellow too. Even the RGB/hex values appear poetic:

The above diagram is something I put together rather quickly, and makes me think of several things: a knitted quilt, islands in the bitstream, Tetris blocks, and I find the contrast of the parallel pieces atop and near the shifted (diagonal) ones to be quite startling.

The font I chose is Rondalo, which, true to its name, has a rounded, sans-serif feel. The lowercase "a" looks almost like an "o". I think it's very elegant.