sharedinbox.com – Day 3

Great progress today. The first email to a sharedinbox.com account was sent, and it arrived safely into an inbox which is really beginning to take shape!

I’ve spent the last couple of days working on the colour scheme and layout for the marketing site, and it’s coming along nicely.
The original colour scheme:

While it kind of works (and reminds me a bit of neapolitan ice cream, mmm), there were issues when placing text on it (it was either difficult to read, or it simply didn’t look right). We then moved on to a stronger blue:

Feeling that we could do with a bigger choice of colours, I payed a visit to to one of my favourite sources of inspiration – grainedit.com, and found some lovely colours on a little calendar from seesaw:

Following a bit of discussion about layouts (check out the video, below) we’ve come up with this, which is currently being coded up:

There’s still a few decisions to be made, but I’m glad to see it in the browser!

We also spent some time today searching for icons. I am big fan of the brightmix icon set and we’ve tried to keep to a similar theme throughout.

On the font-front, I’m hoping to do a bit of embedding – probably CartoGothic – check it out!

Anyway enjoy the video. It’s funny!

Shared Inbox Day 3 from Pigment on Vimeo.