New calendars.

As I noted a couple of weeks ago, it's CALENDAR TIME! Get your free ones from the Chinese restaurant or the church, or wait until you get one from a relative who doesn't like you for Christmas.  "2019 Great Coffee Mugs Calendar" or "Chinese Crested Puppies 2019!!!!!" maybe.

We've all seen enough calendars, especially the ones for kids, to know that months have particular colors. And fonts, but that's less standardized. In the northern hemisphere I think they look something like this. 

January's light blue or white, of course, celebratory but cold, and I think a nice, elegant font works for it. By February you're forced to yield to winter's endurance, and so it's stately and gray. March starts to feel like lively again, but it's serious, still wintry but with wind and rain. April's giddy (especially with chicks and bunnies and stuff). May's got your juices flowing, and spring has settled in to get things done. June's nice too, though sometimes quiet. July's just easy and hot and fun. August is a little tougher, more deserving of respect, more brutal with the dog days. Although we think of September as fall, it's almost all summer, and feels like summer, so it gets a light color, but we'll give it a more serious back-to-school font. October gets Chiller for a font, but it's too pretty to be that scary, so we'll use lowercase letters instead of all caps--and of course it's orange. November is brown, like all the empty trees, in the inevitable Papyrus, because the leaves are dead. December would be white or gray, but gets the Christmas exemption.

Now, you may disagree with some or all of these choices, and I could easily be swayed that there are better ones. But to help appreciate my design, here's the months with the fonts and colors all mixed up: Am I right or am I right? 

I thought so!