I choose to use a monochromatic color scheme because I wanted my new layout to reflect my minimalist design style and I felt that the muted shades of green expressed my earth-friendly interests and personality. Also green's one of my favorite colors! Unfortunately my design is not entirely monochromatic because I could not change the blue background color, and a few other details in the design template. My base color is green which is a cool color. In my design I used contrasted shades of green (light and dark), varied the text size (blog titles are overly large compared to the small text for the entries), contrasted a serif font(Georgia) for the title with the a sans-serif (Arial) which is used in the rest of the text, and an asymetrical column layout (the left column is 2/3 wider then the left column). Visually in my blog design there is a sense of repetition indicated by the line dividers between each blog entry, the enormous text for each blog title, and the dingbats indicating a new link on the sidebar.