Elements
The parts a look is made of. Open an area to see its Elements and the Aesthetics that use them.
Color & Palettes
Color Elements, palettes taken from each Aesthetic’s cited color rules, and palettes Aesthetary wrote for a feeling.
Imagery
How pictures are made and treated: photography, illustration, pattern and collage.
Surfaces & Materials
What a surface appears to be made of: depth, sheen, texture.
Field notes, day one.
The path climbs out of the valley before the light comes up.
Each ridge is a little paler than the one in front of it.
From the top, the far hills barely move as you walk.
The near ones slide past.
That difference is how you know which is which.
Field notes, day two.
Fog in the valley, and only the far ridge above it.
Techniques
Print and production marks a website borrows to feel printed and handmade: grain, halftone dots, misregistration, ink on paper.
