This week’s designs of note sport a cheerful, energetic, healthy dose of the color orange. Cheers!
Designs of the Week
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Bold move to start navigation at the bottom and work your way up—is this a growing side-effect of Apple’s “natural scrolling” now? Circular illustrations and frames are a huge theme in this design, accentuated with diagonal lines in the background, making for an edgy look. Lastly, I’ll always enjoy Google Maps that have a custom color scheme applied to them.
The strong header is immediately covered by a clean, light, lower content area featuring rounded fonts and baby blue accents, which we all know is the complimentary match of orange. Very friendly and informative.
Actually extremely simple, no frills whatsoever, but very readable and the use of orange is not too heavy at all.
It’s okay to use orange not just in the links but also as text (in this case, intro text and some of the smaller headings). It’s also a good idea to shift to black to not take away from the other colors in the portfolio page.
I like how the background has the texture of an orange peel, and how all the small icons are just that colorful they don’t get drowned out by it. The lightbox styling could have been customized further though!
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