Blog design trend: multicolored top border

March 13, 2006

An adaption of the top border trend that I’ve been seeing on a number of blogs recently is a multicolored top border:

Multicolored top borders

BlogsMujer, Firewheel Design and Veerle’s newly redesigned blog are a few examples.

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Comments

  1. reminds me a little of that candy colored design I used to have on my first blog :-)

    — Darren, March 13, 2006

  2. I love Veerle’s! Her site is so amazing, was looking at it yesterday! It’s so fabulous!

    — Pete, March 13, 2006

  3. what’s the reason Rachel?
    just for prettiness?

    — Stephan L., March 13, 2006

  4. 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.

    — derek, March 13, 2006

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  6. 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.

    — Rachel, March 14, 2006

  7. We stole the idea from Dan: http://chameleon.simplebits.com/
    I think the look is just swell. ;-)

    — Josh Williams, March 17, 2006

  8. What’s interesting to me is the adoption of rather rounded geometric sans serif typefaces on all three.

    — Jack Yan, March 17, 2006