Finally I got around making the header for the site I am building. After walking around with this idea in my head for weeks, it turned out the way I hoped it would. It is an existing font called KG Always a Good time, found on the 1001 fonts website. After first printing “breien in oost”, I traced the outlines of the letters with a marker, then changed some details that I didn’t like and filled the outlines with a ”yarn-structure”. Next I scanned the drawing and spent an impressive amount of hours colouring the yarn structure inside the letters, almost pixel by pixel.
I had hoped that I would be able to use the same font for all other headings on my site, but the fonts that can be used on WordPress are limited to another font source only. Well, I also spent impressive amounts of time searching all the available WordPress themes, to see what they can do and what not. More can be done when you pay for an upgrade, but I don’t think upgrading will allow me to use the font of my choice. And I prefer to create the whole thing without spending money anyway.
New theme
The theme I used before – Vostok – was and still is very pretty, but its navigation possibilities are limited and it doesn’t have features like a sidebar or multiple columns. So I switched to this theme called Visual. I like the way it presents the blog posts and the menu shows very clearly . Unfortunately I had adjusted the colors in the logo to the Vostok theme and had to adjust some of the colors again. The next challenge will be my attempt to make the site bi-lingual, Dutch and English. And I will have to move the web site to a self-hosted place so that the domain name will be breieninoost.nl. Apart from that I am done with the design and I hope to focus on content soon. It will be about knitting (and some crochet as well)!
