My Blog's Outfit (Blog Post 1)

Personally, I have always been one to show off. I do far too much to make myself look as if I am perpetually deliberate, which is not always the actual case. It is, however, the case in this scenario. Every adjustment has been done deliberately to accommodate the accurate portrayal of my personality to each of my readers. While deciding on each of these particulars, I primarily focused on how I sound when read, and how I'd like to be assisted in the conveying of my thoughts and underlying tone throughout. I chose the color scheme to involve solely cool colors. Nearly going entirely black, white, and grey, the bright blue pops of color displaying the blog's title and each post's title, as well as some faint extras, deliver the desired effect -- being interesting and attention-grabbing without clutter. The simple choice to use slightly muted colors keeps the fact that this is a professionally respectable blog in mind, while the cheerier blue slips a tid-bit of personality into the whole affair, thoroughly making it Kayla Burns'. Blue, being my favorite color, a nice contrast, and a dainty little thing, mixes the two rather different themes that make up my personality well. The background consists of a train, symbolizing productivity and, though perhaps at times strained, the rugged utilitarianism I connect to industrialism. Regrettably, vintage things such as trains are exceptionally trendy at the moment and it is possible that I be assumed a "Hipster" for my use of the locomotive. I do not wish any of this egotistical individualism to be passed onto any conception of my blog that may exist.

The fonts used are deliberate as well, Merriweather being used to display the title to both the blog and each post, and Dancing Script to display the rest of the texts, save for the actual posts, which are done in Trebuchet. Merriweather is a straightforward font with hints of industrialism. This is also hinted at in the background picture, thus promoting the professionalism and a desire to expand my own horizons via success with my writing. Dancing Script adds the same touch of personality to my blog as does the blue color that taints the otherwise slightly depressing aesthetic effect. The cursive both adds girlish accents and hints at a time when cursive was used over print, a dainty nod at pre-modern English. Trebuchet, as a whole, is a passive and rather disengaged font which lacks a specific mood. This is desirable because of my choice to go with industrial and dainty as my primary adjectives for this blog and adding any other sort of attention-altering change to my actual posts would be nothing but distracting. When I write, I'd like the focus to be on my words themselves and their meaning, not the way the A curls into the T.