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:
| 0, 255, 0 | #00ff00 |
| 255, 0, 128 | #ff0080 |
| 0, 0, 0 | #000000 |
| 255, 255, 0 | #ffff00 |
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.
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"I don’t like the favourite colours of Torley Linden. They make my teeth hurt and my eyes water…"
@Laetizia: Haha, OMG… that's hilarious. I appreciate your candidness and sharing this with me! AND I have a colored set of plugs like that too. Variations on the solid green + pink ARE fine… I sometimes lighten them by 75% to have a pale, more subtle pastel…
As for what I do at Linden Lab, I'm in the process of keeping http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Torley_Linden#What_I_do updated. My focus is shifting more towards video tutorials in Q108…