If you make a weird choice, commit to it. Half-committed weird just looks like a mistake.

An odd choice only works when everything around it agrees. Hedge it, apologize for it, shrink it down so it stays deniable, and it reads as something you did not mean. The strangeness itself is not the problem. The hesitation around it is what makes people uncertain, because they can feel you asking permission.

Find the weirdest element in what you are making and make it bigger instead of smaller. Repeat it, put it in the title, let it set the rules for the rest. If it still fails, it fails as a real choice, which teaches you something a compromise never will.