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Drive has many characteristical elements of style, making it unique and easily identifiable.
Drive has many characteristical elements of style, making it unique and easily identifiable.
==Colours==
==Colours==
All pages are held entirely in monochrome shades of blue, with the rare exception of the Drive logo and promotional messages.
All pages are held entirely in monochrome shades of blue, with the rare exception of the Drive logo (red), the Patreon signature (dark red) and promotional messages (can be black).
This is partly due to [[Dave Kellett]]'s colour blindness{{cn|add relevant link}}.
 
The actual colour range may change from comic to comic, but it usually is within one hue degree between 197 and 220, with fonts and outlines staying at 197 degree - more specifically, the colour is <code>#02425B</code> in hex and <code>(2,66,91)</code> in RGB.<ref>This is not easy to find out and might even be wrong! Due to the compression of JPG files, there is almost always noise. But there are some cases, such as wallpapers ([http://cdn.drivecomic.com/media/posts/SparkofThought.png Spark of Thought example]) that are PNG files and seem to have this colour instead of black.</ref>
This is probably partly due to [[Dave Kellett]]'s colour blindness.<ref>http://www.drivecomic.com/news/1506.html</ref>
==Dialogue==
==Dialogue==
===Speech bubbles & SFX===
===Speech bubbles & SFX===
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==Appearance on the website==
==Appearance on the website==
==Tales of the Drive==
==Tales of the Drive==
==References==
<references/>

Revision as of 08:56, 26 September 2016

Drive has many characteristical elements of style, making it unique and easily identifiable.

Colours

All pages are held entirely in monochrome shades of blue, with the rare exception of the Drive logo (red), the Patreon signature (dark red) and promotional messages (can be black).

The actual colour range may change from comic to comic, but it usually is within one hue degree between 197 and 220, with fonts and outlines staying at 197 degree - more specifically, the colour is #02425B in hex and (2,66,91) in RGB.[1] This is probably partly due to Dave Kellett's colour blindness.[2]

Dialogue

Speech bubbles & SFX

Typography

Quite often, sentences at the end of a bubble do not have a full stop. Exclamations are not uncommonly emphasized with two exclamation marks!!

Fonts

A variety of fonts is used, largely depending on emphasis or context:

  • all-caps, normal-sized comic font
  • all-caps, bold italics font, usually used to emphasize and usually slightly bigger than the normal-sized font
  • all-caps, BIG FONT, usually quite big, used for yelling and header titles
  • monospace font, largely used in extra pages for correspondence
  • normal, non-serif font, usually used in extra pages for encyclopedic entries and similar official texts from the empire

Humour

Page layout

Appearance on the website

Tales of the Drive

References

  1. This is not easy to find out and might even be wrong! Due to the compression of JPG files, there is almost always noise. But there are some cases, such as wallpapers (Spark of Thought example) that are PNG files and seem to have this colour instead of black.
  2. http://www.drivecomic.com/news/1506.html