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# There Are Gonna Be Some Changes Around Here!
- URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/there-are-gonna-be-some-changes-around-here/
- Published: 2021-10-15T01:25:37.000Z
- Updated: 2021-10-15T01:51:36.000Z
- Author: Matt Birchler
- Tags: meta, #Import 2023-06-01 22:41, #Import 2025-03-29 19:29

Another 6 months means another iteration on the design of Birchtree! This is 100% a meta post, but I’ll try to keep it as interesting as possible!

## Font Updates

My Hoefler&Co subscription was about to renew, and I just didn’t want to spend the money on fonts. I liked the fonts I was using, but I wanted to save a bunch of money so I dropped down to the following:

- **[Jessi Neue Bold](https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/nois/jessi-neue/bold/?ref=birchtree.me)**: Site title
- **[Bjorn](https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/mti/bjorn/?ref=birchtree.me)**: Headings
- **San Francisco/Roboto/Segue UI**: All normal text

I hemmed-and-hawed for a while about the body text, and decided to just use the system font. They’re free *and* a few of them are variable fonts, so I get total control over the weight.

## Colors

My previous color scheme was pretty muted, which I liked a lot, but if I’m looking at what’s coming on the horizon when it comes to web design, I think more and more sites are going to go with a bolder color palette and I wanted to be on the front end of that trend.

[Web design is fashion](https://birchtree.me/blog/the-return-of-style-in-software/), and while some sites stick with one look for years and years, I’m just not one of those people. I’ll never be done tweaking things here.

## Links

So I may have gone a little too far with links, but I think they’re fun. Shout out to [Joseph Wood](https://josephwood.xyz/how-to-get-craft-style-highlighting-in-roam?ref=birchtree.me) for figuring out how to get this Craft-like look in CSS, and I tweaked it to my personal taste. They’re big, bold, and I love them; I hope you do too.

Oh, and if I did them right, and I think I did, they should fall back to a solid color if your browser doesn’t support the tricks happening here.

Here's the relevant CSS if you were curious:

```
.post-content a {
  border-bottom: 2px solid #ed54e1;
  color: #ed54e1;
  background-image: linear-gradient(69deg, #ed54e1, #2595cc);
  background-size: 100%;
  -webkit-background-clip: text;
  -webkit-text-fill-color: rgba (0,0,0,0.0001);
  color: transparent;
  -webkit-box-decoration-break: clone;
  font-weight: 600;
}

```

## Next Up…

The next thing on the list is to figure out how to randomly tweak the colorful blobs above the site title each time the page loads. Ironically, I know how to do this easily in PHP, but this site is a JS operation, so I’m going to have to learn how to do something new, which will be fun!

I’m also on the hunt for some new icons for the menu that are a little more playful…praying I don’t have to make them custom because icons are my design kryptonite.