Style: Fantaisie/Tabula Rasa

[ninetydegrees]

Edit: these are now live and can be selected from Customize Style. Original layers and pics are no longer available.


Style: Fantaisie
Author: ninetydegrees
Images info:
-- original graphics by Pehaa. Usage terms : "Free for both personal and commercial use. If you host them, please link this site."
-- fonts by from Google Fonts, licensed respectively under SIL Open Font License 1.1 and Apache License 2.0.

Themes:
Early Morning / Preview (shown in three-columns-sides mode)
Guilty Pleasure / Preview (shown in two-columns-right mode)
Nostalgia / Preview (shown in one-column-split mode w/ fewer modules)
Pink Explosion / Preview (shown in two-columns-left mode)
Unrelenting Routine / Preview (shown in two-columns-right mode)
Warm Welcome / Preview (shown in one-column mode w/ fewer modules)

I plan on making themes with other graphics from the brilliant Pehaa but working with vectors is time-consuming for me so...

Testing would be appreciated as usual! I suspect this won't play nice with small screen resolutions.

Comments

[ex_rising236]

This is really, really awesome. Very brilliantly done, I love it.

[ninetydegrees]

Thank you so much. The graphics are so beautiful and it's so generous of Pehaa to share them for free I wanted to try and do something really nice with them.

[momijizukamori]

This layout is SUPER CUTE and also makes me really hungry *g*

[ninetydegrees]

Yay! 'Super cute' is great to hear. Thanks!

XD I know what you mean! I bought some croissants just before I redid all the breakfast graphics because I was so tired of looking at them and not having any.

[momijizukamori]

Yeah, I'm glad I have strawberries at least, but mmmmm croissants.

Also, another source for fun images and patterns might be here - they're vector images, and they've got a whole bunch under 'Kawaii' of cuteified objects.

[ninetydegrees]

I kept the croissants for tomorrow --this was hard!-- but had a chocolatine to tide me over.

Oh thank you for the link! This is a terrific site. The vegetables are adorable and I really wanna do something with the little silly monsters.

[momijizukamori]

I found it when I was looking for resources with open use liscenses because I'm not much good at graphics myself. I should actually do a resource post with links - I've got a pile of sites bookmarked.

[ninetydegrees]

Yes, please!

[momijizukamori]

Do you have any good ones for the list? I'll see about writing it up this evening.

[ninetydegrees]

We have some links at stylemakers under the resources tag. You need to check the licenses individually, though.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page is always a good source but same warning about the licenses.

There are many people publishing photos or textures on Flick which you can use in commercial projects. I've used Design Shard in Summertime but there's also Patrick Hoesly just to name two of them.

I think it all depends on how I proceed: if I know what I'm looking for I'll hit big generic sites like Deviant Art/DA stock, Wikimedia, any 'free something' site or big open-source sites like Openclipart. If I'm just looking for a graphic but I don't know what yet I'll hit sites from people I know like Pehaa.

[afuna]

Love it (but now I'm hungry)

[ninetydegrees]

Thank you! (Ha! That was my sekrit ebil plan all along!)

[fu]

Nefarious! (I like it)

[musyc]

Oh, so cute. Totally not my style at all, but I can see these being very popular. (And yes, I really want croissants now. XD )

[ninetydegrees]

Thank you! The funny thing is that most styles I make aren't my style either. (So do I again! Darn.)

[baggyeyes]

EDITED! Because I get confused which entry I'm replying to.
Ach.

I tried to install the layout, but the layer isn't public. ;)

[ninetydegrees]

XD

Or sorry I always confuse is_public with source_viewable and end up with is_viewable. It should be viewable now! *g*

[baggyeyes]

I've been using this style for a bit (Theme: Warm Welcome) using a two-column setup. On smaller resolutions, layout maintains its shape. The entry headings, though are touch to read, especially long entry titles. The font used is fine on Module headers, and on the blog title/subtitle, but not the smaller entry titles.

Otherwise, everything looks fine!

Again,my testing included Opera 12.01 (Mac), Safari 6.0 (Mac), Firefox 14 (Mac) Firefox 12 (Fedora Linux) Firefox 15 (Android 2.3.4, Kobo Vox 7" tablet) A version of Safari (No idea which one) on an iPod touch iOS, and iPhone 4. (It helps to know people with gadgets!)

[ninetydegrees]

Thank you baggyeyes and sorry for the late answer.

That's very interesting because it's the same size in modules and entries, which means that one can perceive it differently. I guess that's because you know what the module headings say and text's shorter there so you're not really reading them.* I've made everything bigger. Do you think it's big enough?

* By you, I meant generic you, myself included. :)

[baggyeyes]

Maybe making them a bit larger might help. I know longer titles were really harder to read. I'll update my layer, and let you know.

[baggyeyes]

It seems a bit better. What if you lowered the Module heading just a bit, 1.5 instead of 1.8?

Or did I misread your layer code?