i've been working on C's birthday invites today. cupcake theme. this is overkill anyway, since the guest list is immediate family only, but still. i like doing it.
what do you think? the empty space below the party time holds out address.
The first thing I read at a glance was "grilling cupcakes" though. Could those two words be different colors, or the "&" be green as well?
okay - i didn't notice it, but when you said it, it made perfect sense. i went with pink for the ampersand, to tie it to the other small character contributions.
Post by snipsnsnails on Jul 6, 2013 22:53:09 GMT -5
Ok, I'm insanely nit-picky about these sorts of things (professional habits/jobs die hard), so I am a-ok if you scrap every single one of my suggestions.
-The green frosting color in the upper-right is most unfortunate. Overall, the color pallete is cute, but since that is the first place the eye goes, I wish that color were different.
-Is there supposed to be a red line under the word "three"? I'd scrap it, if so.
-I don't like that the j's loop in "join" overlaps the g in "grilling."
-The slight difference in size between "cupcakes" & "grilling" kills me slowly. I can't tell if it's a slight font size difference, a kerning difference to achieve the justified text block or if it's a trick of the eye b/c of the colors you used, but it's just close enough to drive me bonkers trying to figure it out.
-The 4 and the 10 are still getting lost visually for me in the final draft. I'd make them all the red color of the "three", outline the pink color in black or scrap that font and use the black script font for them.
-I'd remove the cherry at the top, just off-center. It makes it too crowded for me up there.
Ok, like I said, I'm insane about stuff like this. Love the mix of fonts and the theme! Hope it's a fantastic birthday!
Ok, I'm insanely nit-picky about these sorts of things (professional habits/jobs die hard), so I am a-ok if you scrap every single one of my suggestions.
-The green frosting color in the upper-right is most unfortunate. Overall, the color pallete is cute, but since that is the first place the eye goes, I wish that color were different. I know what you mean - when it's large and isolated on the invite, it looks out of place. It makes more sense when it's smaller and tiled; gives more range of tone. I might see how easy it is to make all the greens on the invite the darker color.
-Is there supposed to be a red line under the word "three"? I'd scrap it, if so. No, the text was just highlighted when I took the screen grab. It's not a printing line.
-I don't like that the j's loop in "join" overlaps the g in "grilling." It doesn't bother me enough to turn the texts to paths to try to recreate the font!
-The slight difference in size between "cupcakes" & "grilling" kills me slowly. I can't tell if it's a slight font size difference, a kerning difference to achieve the justified text block or if it's a trick of the eye b/c of the colors you used, but it's just close enough to drive me bonkers trying to figure it out. They are slightly different sizes - I think only 3-4 points apart. Done partly for block justification, but also to highlight Cupcake a little more than grilling.
-The 4 and the 10 are still getting lost visually for me in the final draft. I'd make them all the red color of the "three", outline the pink color in black or scrap that font and use the black script font for them. Unfortunately, the script font doesn't have a numeral set. I've been having such a hard time finding numbers in a font that looked like it went. That's how I ended up using the stencil font for the numbers. I'll play around a little more...I'll probably just use the darker pink.
-I'd remove the cherry at the top, just off-center. It makes it too crowded for me up there. I see what you mean - it probably wouldn't if I hadn't added the cupcake in there like I did...I'll try to take it out and make sure it doesn't leave a hole.
Ok, like I said, I'm insane about stuff like this. Love the mix of fonts and the theme! Hope it's a fantastic birthday!
So - question - because it's a tiling pattern, there was only one "full" cupcake in the center, so I pulled it out for the top. But, as it's positioned, it happens to sit right on top of the same colored cupcake in the background. To the point where I'm wondering if I should use one of the different color combos for the top cupcake. But if I did that, would I need to rework the color combos of the font?
-The slight difference in size between "cupcakes" & "grilling" kills me slowly. I can't tell if it's a slight font size difference, a kerning difference to achieve the justified text block or if it's a trick of the eye b/c of the colors you used, but it's just close enough to drive me bonkers trying to figure it out.
Oh. See, I just thought it was because cupcakes are obviously more important than grilling.