Style
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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ http://www.drivecomic.com/news/1506.html
