Narrow bluered tetris w/o dayname labels

I was so proud of the previous version that I started showing it to friends and family. All of them liked it, but my aunt Yola said something important: "It's a real pretty calendar, but maybe only for people who like to think--and you know how lazy some of us are."

 

Those were precisely the words I was trying to avoid. A calendar is a cognitive crutch or it is nothing and I had set out to create a calendar. It had to cater to the lazy! It should encourage laziness at every opportunity, that was its raison d'etre!

 

So a little demoralized I searched for ways to make the design clearer. I found two important ways. The first and most important one was to narrow the month rows. It greatly reduced the vertical space the eye had to travel and in so doing, greatly reduced column confusion.

 

The other great aid was labeling the weekday cells, as the next design shows.

 

On the other hand, the compactness and elegance of this design impressed me a lot and in trying to further them I pursued a different branch of the design, which led me to erase some numbers.

Done