LJ Meta Nattering

[mizarchivist]

I have spent a fair bit of time this morning combing through LJ styles. I found a few good ones, but I ended up going back to Chopsticks because all the lovelies I did find (Bamboo Dream and Great Outdoors being top contenders) did not include icon background/name text colors. Since I've internalized that as part of my reading, not having them there made differentiating from one post to another uncomfortable.

My question to you is: what's your favorite style and why? Do you also employ colors for people? Is there some logic to those choices?

To answer my own questions: 
I chose Chopsticks because I like the header illustration, the fonts (I'll always gravitate to serifs over sans), the link arrangement for commenting doesn't look smooshed or awkward as they sometimes can. I wish that it didn't spread out the tags (which I like visible on my page)- once not that long ago, they were in a block not a bulleted list. I also want the tags to be all the same sized font. This detail on tag display is what drove me to look for new in the first place.

Obviously I use colors, since I just said so and of course there's reasons. If I associate a color with a specific person, I try to use that in the background. However, this doesn't always work out because one color would be horribly overused or I don't associate a color with them. In the latter's case, I look at what colors I've used less and try to come up with something that I can read and doesn't look awful as a pairing. Since I've been using colors since I started LJ 6 years ago, some people are now associated with a color set because they've been that for so long.

 

Comments

[woodwardiocom.livejournal.com]

I think, in your case, I might have picked the color scheme just 'cause I think you look good in red . . .