I was fairly early in the post-mimeo fanzine generation, but I certainly heard enough about mimeo technology and problems from other ziners. I always thought that was one of the more boring topics one could discuss in a zine. Nowadays, there's a certain amount of analogous blablabla about computer, new, & web stuff.

In fact, one of the first things I noticed about As I Please was the fact that its foreground and background colors are from the Gestetner ink/paper palette.

That never even crossed my mind. When I was choosing colors, I played around for a while with the VisiBone Webmaster's Color Laboratory and settled on the weak yellows as being distinctive without being harsh.

I don't have a highly-developed design sense; I just use a few arbitrary rules of thumb (e.g. "For body text, fonts with serifs are in general more readable than sans-serif fonts"); a notion that it's worth fussing with things until they look good enough; and the awareness that once things do look good enough it's probably best to quit fussing with them.