Some of you might have noticed that things are changing around the old blog. I’m trying to make it easier to update, so I don’t avoid keeping you all in the loop. I’m also trying to make it easier to get the designs I make in the way you want them, pretty soon you’ll be able to order any design on any of the items I make.
But during the process I got an interesting question from Crystal, the person helping me with all this. We were discussing how I wanted the blog and website to look. “Same colors?” she asked. No question! RandomFandom has to be orange! She didn’t ask directly, but I could hear the unspoken question.
“Why orange?”
Some of you probably have some pretty accurate guesses. I mean, I don’ t keep my love for everything Fruits Basket hidden by any means. And when you think of Fruits Basket and Orange. One thing comes to mind.
Not gonna lie. When RandomFandom first started as a artist studio in the Artist Alley, Fruits Basket was my main game. So the colors when along with it. Orange for Kyo and blue for Yuki, those were my shop colors from the very start. But it used to have more blue and less orange. And as time has gone on orange has invaded, and the Fruits Basket has waned from the site. Not I don’t still love it, I do… I even still write fanfiction for it, and the old website with all the info you never knew you wanted to know about Fruits Basket is still there too. It’s just not the main focus of RandomFandom anymore.
So why keep the orange? And why make it even more orange? (Though this design is slightly less orange than the last, white is just easier to read against.)
Because I have come to love orange. It’s happy and cheerful. It makes you think of happy things like cold refreshing orange juice, bright long summer days, sunflowers, crackling fires and sunsets. (Gee, makes me sound outdoors-y which I am SO NOT.) Orange is playful, fresh and vibrant. But mostly, orange is an everybody color.
It’s not a color for “boys” or “girls.” It’s not a color that you can be too young for, or be too old for. It’s not a color that you need worry if it’s meant for you. I’ve taken a lot of art classes, and you learn a lot about colors and what they mean to people. I’ve read that people make a decision about a place or a location within a few seconds of being there, and a lot of their decisions come from the colors alone. Have you ever walked past a store just because you can tell at a glance it’s not meant for you? A lot of that feeling probably had to do with the colors in the store. Men instinctively shy away from the “women’s” part of department store, and women to the same to men’s.
RandomFandom is for everyone, just like orange. I want people to come on by, and have fun. When I go to a convention, people are attracted to the bright, fuzzy (and super soft) cloth I used on the table. It’s not just one type of person, young, old, man, woman… orange gets them all. And then I get to see their faces as they look over my buttons, and the smiles when they find just the right button that speaks to them. Then they open up and tell me about their con, about what interests them. That’s one of the main things I love about my job. SO MORE ORANGE, I say!