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An app for digital scrapbooking — build beautiful diary collages with palettes, fonts, stickers, backgrounds, and templates already picked to work together.
Read the announcement →Color, from quiet to loud
One rule runs through both posts — background, main, accent. What changes is only how loudly you say it.
How to pick 3 colors that always work
Three colors as three roles, the 60-30-10 rule, and the one saturation cheat that makes any palette look expensive.
Turn it up: playing with color without blowing it
Triadic schemes, shade / tint / tone, five color vibe families, and swapping black-on-white for color-on-color.
The index
| # | Title | You'll learn | Volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | How to pick 3 colors that always work | Roles, 60-30-10, muting, four ready-made trios | quiet |
| 02 | Turn it up: playing with color without blowing it | Triadic wheel, shade/tint/tone, vibe families, swapping black | loud |
Everything except color
The craft under a good page: how it's arranged, how it contrasts, what it's set in — and the habit that turns it all into taste. Each post builds on the one before.
How to build a layout that holds together
Align to invisible lines, group by meaning, add air, and give the page one anchor.
Loud on purpose, quiet on purpose
Make the different things clearly different and the same things honestly the same.
How to pick fonts that get along
Three roles, three families: a headline that leads, an accent that flashes, a body that reads.
Steal with your eyes: how to build an eye
Collect a moodboard, count what favorites are made of (almost always: little), and repeat.
The index
| # | Title | You'll learn | Focus |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | How to build a layout that holds together | Alignment, proximity, whitespace, anchor | order |
| 02 | Loud on purpose, quiet on purpose | Contrast, repetition, hierarchy, rhythm | contrast |
| 03 | How to pick fonts that get along | Font roles, pairing, three families max | type |
| 04 | Steal with your eyes: how to build an eye | Moodboards, the count exercise, the habit | the eye |