#1: Design

I chose my green and blue background because according to the about.com article about the psychology of colors, blues and greens are calming and serene colors. The greens and blues on my blog are also bright and give a cheerful, fresh, welcoming feeling that I want the viewers to get when they open it. Also, the grass and the dandelion in the background is appropriate because AP English and Literature is a new level of an English class for me, so the freshness of the grass growing and the weeds' seeds being blown away to somewhere else, somewhere new, communicates the feeling of the new experience this class will bring.

I wanted this blog to have a casual and light feeling which the font contributes to. I also kept the font simple and fairly basic as well since I didn't want it too be too elaborate or distracting, in order to keep that calm and serene feeling. But I also didn't want the font to be a light color, like the background, so I made the font black. The black font pops against the light background, so it can be easily read by viewers.