Thank you very much!! The logo was inspired by late-1800s book cover styles (I love those so much, truly) though I'm not the most confident in my lettering skills, so I'm glad you like it !
I see! I love that type of book cover, and i can see you drawing inspiration from it. If you wanted to make it more resemble those book covers you should consider changing the background of the logo to either one of red, blue, green or brown, the most popular cover colours of that time, excluding black.
I made a few mock-ups of how it would look like. You could obviously do it better, as you have both the skill and the files to do it.
https://capstasher.neocities.org/redbanner.png https://capstasher.neocities.org/bluebanner.png https://capstasher.neocities.org/greenbanner.png https://capstasher.neocities.org/brownbanner.png
Wow! My main reference had a red cover, along with the black ink and gilt that I drew from for the banner image. That being said, I think your mockups with the not totally-gold back look great. When I have the energy and time, I'll have to add some detail (and a little more time, too, as this whole site design overhaul, logo included, was kind of done in a one-day frenzy, hah)
Its great to hear this comming from you. You were one of the driving influences for me starting this website! i tried doing stuff on neocities before but was not very good at it, and didnt keep it updated. this time around i am more motivated to keep it going, so hopefully you find the things to come on the website interesting
thanks for getting me to finally make one lol. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/693302175010652191/1000317446038765620/button_1.gif