Still in "give me more ideas" mode, I thought: why not ask my home AI to design a logo for the blog? I told it to ask ChatGPT — or in this case, GPT Image 1 — to come up with something for myaistory.blog.
The first result came back looking pretty good. Clean design, modern feel. But the color was off — it had highlighted “ais” instead of just “ai.” Not quite what I had in mind. I asked for a revision: only “ai” highlighted, and in a stronger color — red, orange, something that actually pops.
Version two looked better. The color was more what I wanted. But then I noticed the spacing — the gap between the “y” and “a” was wider than the rest of the letters. My AI suggested going with “my ai story” as separate words rather than the run-together “myaistory” — cleaner, makes “ai” stand out more as its own unit. Made sense to me.
Then I thought about the background. The generated logo had white text on a dark background, which looked fine — but I was planning to put it in the blog header, which has a white background. White text on white background: not ideal. So we went back and generated a version with dark text on white.
I dropped it into the site. Uploaded. And… the logo was tiny. Barely visible in the corner. The generated image had a lot of whitespace padding around the actual text, so at any reasonable header height, the text itself was just a few pixels tall.
My home AI pointed out that the blog logo was already built in HTML and CSS — the orange “ai” color I wanted was literally a one-line change. No image needed, no sizing headaches, no whitespace problems. It matches the header proportions perfectly because it’s the same text that was already there, just a different color.
If you’re reading this on the blog right now, the orange “ai” in the top-left is what we ended up with. Not the AI-generated image — just one line of CSS.