An adaption of the top border trend that I’ve been seeing on a number of blogs recently is a multicolored top border:
BlogsMujer, Firewheel Design and Veerle’s newly redesigned blog are a few examples.
An adaption of the top border trend that I’ve been seeing on a number of blogs recently is a multicolored top border:
BlogsMujer, Firewheel Design and Veerle’s newly redesigned blog are a few examples.
Elsewhere: 
your thoughts
Darren
reminds me a little of that candy colored design I used to have on my first blog
Pete
I love Veerle’s! Her site is so amazing, was looking at it yesterday! It’s so fabulous!
Stephan L.
what’s the reason Rachel?
just for prettiness?
derek
i think the trend is great. it allows for a much greater color palette for website layouts. i’ve always limited myself to three or four colors but having a multi color top bar gives you so much more flexibility. i guess the trick is not getting carried away.
as great as veerle’s layout is, i think there are way too many colors going on. just my own personal tastes.
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Rachel
Stephan, I can’t read their minds but I’d guess that it adds an artistic feel to the sites and as derek said, it provides the opportunity to use more than a couple of colors in the template.
Josh Williams
We stole the idea from Dan: http://chameleon.simplebits.com/
I think the look is just swell.
Jack Yan
What’s interesting to me is the adoption of rather rounded geometric sans serif typefaces on all three.