Ah scrolling. The bane of webcomickers everywhere and the cause of sleepless nights to those who fear the mucky depths below the fold. Modern readers are willing to stroll, especially if you clue them in, but planning for the amount of scrolling your readers will do is just good manners. Creators of long form comics [...]
Category Archives: Design
Can Colorblind People Read Your Comic?
Back in college I won a game of X-bugs against a friend. I was pretty proud of myself, until he revealed to me that he has colorblindness. My “team” was green and his “team” was red and the mats we were playing on were green as well. He couldn’t (or barely could) see our pieces! [...]
Posted in Design Tagged color deficiency, colorblind, contrast, web design, webcomic colors 1 Comment
Twitter Backgrounds: Dressing up Your Home away from Home
Do you use Twitter? We do. Microblogging is a convenient way to keep up throughout the day with friends, family, clients, and fans. Twitter offers many nice backgrounds, but if you’re using Twitter for promotional purposes, you can dress your profile up to improve the branding. With a Twitter background visitors will know exactly what’s [...]
Posted in Design Tagged background design, branding, photoshop, psd template, twitter Leave a comment
Design Ideas: Floating Clouds
This is the first in what will probably be several design ideas I’d love to take a crack at creating for an appropriate comic (although a blog could also be nice in this style). Because of the designs reliance on photography and smooth lines, I can see it being used for a journal comic or [...]
