Emulation is when imitation goes one step further, breaking through into your own thing.” - Steal Like an Artist For instance, there’s this nice grid of “Top Posts” on the homepage of Alligator.io. I try to emulate some of the nice design elements from these sites. I read a lot of great blogs around the web and I draw a lot of design inspiration from the great blogs such as CSS-Tricks, Alligator.io, Smashing Magazine and so forth. There’s no one who would validate and judge my ideas and that gives me freedom to tweak the design however I want. The point here is, I’m my own boss when it comes to take decisions for my blog. And so, I’ve converted this blog from a single-column layout to having a 2-column layout. To do is, I would need a two-column layout. Then I wanted to make some of the things available on each page. I added it and there I have a nice pagination system setup for my blog.

Turned out, there was already a Jekyll plugin called jekyll-paginate for GitHub Pages that I needed to add in the _config.yml of the theme. For instance, the theme lacked pagination.

Not that this is a bad thing, but I wanted more. I ended up with the purple-pink color combination which matched with the logo’s colors. I wanted to give a unique accent to it so I’ve experimented with different color schemes to make the design more vibrant and playful. Then I began with overhauling the design of the blog. This way I learned the tid-bits of graphic designing. I followed those and I ended up with this beautiful logo which I’m using ever since. I looked up to a couple of YouTube tutorials about designing a logo using Inkscape. But trust me, if you really want to do something, you’ll find the way. I’ve designed it using an app called Inkdrop. The logo that you currently seeing is the one I’ve designed 2 years ago. I’ve, first of all, designed this logo which I think helped establish this blog kind of like a brand. Of course, all these happened incrementally. Nothing fancy there, no? Just a photo of me(posing as an Iron Man) as a logo, a few pages including About and Projects pages and a couple of blog posts and that’s about it! In other words, “Pretty bland”.īut then from late 2018, I’ve started improving the overall experience of the whole blog and started blogging more often at the same time. It’s really easy to host it on GitHub Pages as I didn’t want to spend money on hosting my blog (at least in the intial days of the blog).īack then, the blog used to look like this.It’s a very minimal looking blog theme just how I like.To begin with, I’ve set up this blog using this Jekyll theme called Jekyll Now. Back then, I was only used to post articles whenever I feel like. I wanted to keep a portfolio of my projects and to blog about random stuff (very rarely). You can switch to any of the above modes using the tabs at the bottom of the Color Panel.I started this website to establish my web presence on the holy internet. The current Default palette displays at the bottom of each of the above Color Panel modes. You can also import palettes, and create your own. Procreate includes several standard palettes. Palettes gives you access to sets of color swatches. These are ideal for precise color matching. Value offers precision sliders along with numerical and hexadecimal values.

Harmony gives you pleasing color suggestions based on your currently selected shade. This offers Hue / Saturation / Brightness sliders combined with a standard square color picker. This allows for fine touch control over your color selection.Ĭlassic presents a traditional take on color selection. Explore the below options more in the Handbook sections to follow.Ĭolor Disc offers an outer Hue ring around an inner zoomable Saturation disc. When you first open the Color Panel, you see the Color Disc by default. Procreate offers many ways to explore and select new colors.

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