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Colors

The main colors for MOCHI are purples with touch more red than blue. The secondary color is pink. There was a bit of a brouhaha in the first test incarnations of the MOCHI web pages. Even using a "web-safe" color palette, a nice bright purple on a Mac in 16-bit color mode ends up looking very blue on a Windows computer in 32-bit color mode. So, the bright purple got toned down to something like grape, which shows up as "purplish" on both monitors.

Fonts

The font that is used for "MOCHI" and the main section headings on the front page is Homeward Bound Plain. It's rounded off in the corners (like actual mochi) and has a fun feel.

The font used for the section descriptions (on the main page), labeling the navigation buttons (on the top right of most interior pages), and other assorted tasks is Chachie. It comes from Font-a-licious Fonts, who has other excellent "mod" fonts. This font got chosen because of its playful look. Its main drawbacks are that it has no uppercase and gets a bit unreadable at smaller point sizes.

The "handwriting" font used to annotate pictures is Festus, from Emerald City Fontworks. They have many excellent fonts that are freeware or cheapware. One of their specialties is "clipfonts": fonts where each letter is a detailed piece of clip art. Most are taken from 19th century wood-cuts.

Most of the "graphics" are actually "letters" from dingbat fonts. (Dingbat fonts are fonts where each letter is actually a picture.)

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