Showing posts with label Monogram. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Monogram. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

You cannot be color blind if you aspire to fly fighter jets or attend our wedding.

Image from "Color blindness," on Wikipedia

I was flipping through an invitation book when I got the idea to play around with the standard monogram-in-a-circle-of-dots that is popular these days. I thought that it would be cool to do a play on the Ishihara color test used to test for color blindness at the DMV. (I totally admit to having to look up the name of that test on Wikipedia.)

I tossed the following (very) rough draft together to test drive the design. The yellow and slate gray were my original colors:
Here's what I think is the almost-final version using our real color palette:

I really hope that it's closed to finish because I am tired of looking at it. Every time I go to start it over, I get lazy and make the same mistakes. What do you think? I have been receiving the following comments about it:

  • "It looks like the color blind test at the driver's license place."
  • "What does 'ta' mean?" (Not even kidding. I get that a lot.)
  • "OMG. Your initials are 't 'n a'?"
I think it's funny that most of my friends are first realizing that our initials are "T 'n A." I really admire typography, so I couldn't not use our initials for anything. I decided to meet myself halfway and didn't use an ampersand. But I also think that it's funny that those are our initials. I am toying with giving out monogrammed mud flaps as favors:


"Flaming Mud Flap Girl" from http://www.stickergiant.com

Just kidding!