Pink for October

Natalie Jost has just published an article entitled, Going Pink & Getting Inspired, which is a great read.

Finding the right combination of color to go with your pink is a tough task. Designers can spend a great number of billable hours on finding just the right colors before a design really gets anywhere. There are hundreds of tints and shades of any particular color, and even pink, as plain as it seems in its bubblegum stereotype, actually has the same number of combinations as any other color. The trouble is in finding something to compliment it.

There’s some examples of pinkified sites and 5 colour palettes to help get you started down the road to a pink October. Lots of good ideas, and definitely a fair share of inspriation.

Thanks, Natalie!

In the last 4 days (since I had this idea) I have received a lot of support both verbally (well, textually) and in the form of action.

Tammie Lister designed what the site will look like next.

Nick Oder is coding up the design and making it play nice with Wordpress.

Brian Gilham was “up most of the night working on” working on a mini site specifically focusing on men. I am not linking it yet because I don’t know if it is ready for prime-time so to speak.

This is something I planned on adding to this site as well. As I mentioned to Brian, “my tack was to focus on how men can talk to each other and to the women they know about this subject without resorting to sentences like, ‘I want to save your boobies!’ Which, while completely funny and ice-breaky, isn’t where the conversation should stop.” We don’t know how we will work together yet, but we will make it happen.

Many 9rulers have shown support within the Member Forum and on their own sites, as have others.

I am in the beginning conversations with the Komen Foundation about how to handle donations. I think they are a good US-based organisation, but I would also like some help identifying some non-US orgs, or even an international org. If you know of a good one, please leave a comment.

There is more to come of course. I am not able to work on this full-time, so it isn’t going as fast as I hoped, but things are moving forward. I just want to thank everyone who has commented so far, who is displaying a button on their site, and those who have patiently waited while I tried to explain exatly what I need.

And speaking of needing… When you finish reading this either on the site or via the feed (bloglines sub, feedburner), please email or IM one person you know and ask them to visit this site.

Someone has kindly Dugg this site:

http://digg.com/health/Pink_for_October

If you find this event Digg worthy, we’d appreciate your Digg.

And we are working our way to a new design, too:

Thanks to everyone who has linked us so far and thank your for spreading the word!

Many thanks to Natalie Jost for putting together this button. I’ll be putting on on my site and I encourage you to do the same.

I figure if I publicaly state I cam Going Pink for October, I am more likely to do it. ;) Use the button as self-incentive and as a way to communicate the event to your site’s visitors.

Please link back to this site of course. Even though things are still building around here, it doesn’t hurt to get the word out to as many people as possible.