thank you so much and sorry for the delay in getting back to you! those holidays really get ya ðŸ«
i'm so glad you liked the header image! here is a drive link to the original image, and here is the size i used for the screenshot i sent you (resized to 1800×286).
i like the brighter look for the header text a lot, but there's something about the drop shadow effect on the text, both light and dark, that gives it a kind of chromatic aberration look against a textured background, which IS cool but not quite what i'm going for. i think it would be most legible with a more uniform stroke/outline around the header text, but as far as i know the text-stroke effect in CSS isn't widely supported yet/is still experimental. as much as i really want to keep the gradient on the text (it looks so cool!!!), i'm not sure if there's a way to make it work against a textured background :c the only alternative i can think of at the moment is going back to the dark purple for the header text, which would be a little plainer but i think would otherwise mesh well with the colors. if you have any other ideas about how we could keep the very-cool-looking gradient on the header, though, i would love to see them!
Re: journal layout commission
i'm so glad you liked the header image! here is a drive link to the original image, and here is the size i used for the screenshot i sent you (resized to 1800×286).
i like the brighter look for the header text a lot, but there's something about the drop shadow effect on the text, both light and dark, that gives it a kind of chromatic aberration look against a textured background, which IS cool but not quite what i'm going for. i think it would be most legible with a more uniform stroke/outline around the header text, but as far as i know the text-stroke effect in CSS isn't widely supported yet/is still experimental. as much as i really want to keep the gradient on the text (it looks so cool!!!), i'm not sure if there's a way to make it work against a textured background :c the only alternative i can think of at the moment is going back to the dark purple for the header text, which would be a little plainer but i think would otherwise mesh well with the colors. if you have any other ideas about how we could keep the very-cool-looking gradient on the header, though, i would love to see them!