My Styling Choices
Colour Scheme
I decided that a monochromatic colour scheme would work best for my website. I knew that I wanted my website to have a minimal, simplistic, clean, and modern look to it. I also knew that I wanted to make it blue simply because blue is my favourite colour. I believe the different shades of blue are very appealing to the eye and have a calming feeling to them. These blues also complement the wall in the background of the image on my homepage! I believe this scheme creates my site to be neat and harmonious.
I chose the colour of my heading to be a cool, dark shade of blue so that it stands out against the lighter shades. It is very similar to the colour of my school uniform sweater as well! Although, I mainly chose it because it stood out.
rgb(63, 63, 97) or #3F3F61
I used the website colorkit to find different shades of blues so that I could create my monochromatic colour scheme.
The colour of my subheadings is a slightly brighter blue. It is also meant to stand out against the background.
rgb(1, 57, 109) or #103A6D
The background of my body is comprised of these two blues. The darker one is the background of my header and the softer one is the background of my main. I also have a light grey border around my page.
rgb(185, 197, 209) or #99AABB
rgb(211, 219, 235) or #D3DBEB
The rest of my paragraph text is either black or white.
Overall, I desired a simpilstic, clean, and calming website, so I went with a monochromatic colour scheme. I chose blues that were appealing to me and ones that stood out to emphasize that they were important.
Font Choices
I went with "Libre Baskerville" as my heading font as well as my subheading font. I chose it because it was a Serif font and I want my website to seem professional and clean. I like the way the Serif fonts look since I am a writer and I often write using "Times New Roman". "Libre Baskerville" is not too old fashioned though; I would say it's the perfect balance between professional and modern.
Libre Baskerville
For my body text, I used "Times New Roman". Despite it being a Serif font, I think it matches my website well. As I mentioned before, I like the professional, minimalistic look. I believe that Sans-serif fonts are too modern and bubbly in a way and do not match my website as well as "Times New Roman" does. Additionally, I have my body text set as a large enough size that it should be easy to read on a screen even though it's a Serif font.
Times New Roman
Thank you for reading!