DECORATING FOR HALLOWEEN: BLOG EDITION

I gave my blog a temporary makeover for Halloween. I've been seeing several Bear bloggers giving their blog a revamp for Halloween and I've been inspired! I was only going to change the colors, but I ended up drawing a new avatar for myself, added a new font, restyling the NOTES page, and made a Halloween-themed pixel bear! Header image Color palette Secondary font Background texture Notes Pixel Bear Header image The original image, for reference. What kicked it off was the header image! I wanted it to be simple, as if the original image turned into a bat. So I did a quick doodle on Procreate while listening to a Halloween playlist on YouTube. Color palette I wanted to add some accent colors that referenced my favorite holiday. I've been pretty inconsistent using colors in the css. To make it more efficient, I added two more root elements: --accent-color and highlight-color. This will make it easier to change the colors back to the original without having to update elements one by…