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Cool Backgrounds
- tfranco 8y agoLooks nice. I recognise at least one background from the library that comes with MacOS. Is that OK to use?
- simongr3dal 8y agoJust checked. If it's the one called Silva it definitely looks like it's the same location/photographer, but they are slightly different. It looks like it uses photos from unsplash.com which is a collection of free photos.
- maxk42 8y agoLicense?
- valtism 8y agoThis website is really nicely designed. I can't quite place it, but I feel very good just looking at it. I can tell it was designed with care.
- moeamaya 8y agoAppreciate it! Lots of care and time went into seemingly "useless" details but I think the sum is a bit nicer than the parts.
- Eugeleo 8y agoYeah, the design is really great! The only thing that slightly (as slightly as one can imagine) put me off are the sharp corners on the "Side project collective" box, while everywhere else are those nice round corners. It may be just me, though, just my two cents.
- FrankDixon 8y agoIs there some name to this style? I'm seeing it more often these days, but just can't nail it down to a framework or so...
- ratsimihah 8y agoI see a mix of flat and material design, but I'm not sure it has a name like Brutalist does. One should probably come up soon given how nice it is. I really like the Rubik font here.
- bpicolo 8y agoReplacing borders with drop shadows seems to work out great - plus light background with some really delicious colors. Reminds me of Stripe design.
- ratsimihah 8y agoI agree. I'm using a similar design in a current pet project (http://www.niche.fm http://www.niche.fm), it's fun. I still need to update the old lightpink + #181818 modules, though. :)
- yosito 8y ago> I can't quite place it It's the cool backgrounds Bye
- TheOtherHobbes 8y agoWhite or very light background, rounded corners, drop shadows, and some time on spent on proportion. It's a nicer look than Material or any of its flat competitors. I wouldn't object if web design headed back in this direction, but it's not a new look. Various Kai Krause and Metacreations products used a version of it back in the 1990s.
- everdev 8y agoDoesn't work on Chrome mobile for me.
- hoodoof 8y agoWhat are you using to make the menus pop and slide?
- j79 8y agoA quick peek and it appears they're using pure css!
- moeamaya 8y agoIt's all CSS animations timed with transition-delay (but triggered with js adding a "is-active" class).
- myfonj 8y agoFYI, there is a strange rendering glitch in current Nightly occurring while scrolling the page with menu opened: https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/17016 https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/17016 If you plan to make some radical alterations that could potentially "fix" that bug in near future, could you please freeze current state somewhere until diagnosis finishes?
- rb808 8y agoNice, while we're on the subject, I saw trello used photos from https://unsplash.com/ https://unsplash.com/, which looks like a great resource.
- 52-6F-62 8y agoI second unsplash
- fleetside72 8y agoplain black
- enriquto 8y agothis is actually the best, uncluttered, background i work on a black terminal, without window borders, on a black background without icons, and people pass by my desk and are all "whoa, what kind of super-fancy interface is that?"... it gets me every time
- orliesaurus 8y agoScreenshot?
- enriquto 8y agowhen I do ^L, only black pixels except for the shell prompt
- orliesaurus 8y agohaha I was interested in seeing how I could set it up myself - any hints before I start researching a similar setup?
- enriquto 8y agoyou can configure gnome easily to look that way (with a hidden panel and no icons, and a bit of tweking of your compoositor) or you just write a tiny ~/.xinitrc that calls evilwm or cwm xsetroot -solid black evilwm & exec xterm
- orliesaurus 8y agothanks!
- blairbeckwith 8y agoThis is beautifully done. I noticed the affiliation with investmentcalculator.io - I love that you guys are working on stuff like this. Beautiful, simple products that do one thing with a focus on UX. Make more, please!
- moeamaya 8y agoThanks for the love Blair!! icalc is a project by two of my good buddies, and I promise we got plenty more coming down the pipeline. Here's a few more live ones for your perusal: https://loremipsum.io/ https://loremipsum.io/ https://gpacalculator.io/ https://gpacalculator.io/ https://chinesenewyear2018.com/ https://chinesenewyear2018.com/
- KabuseCha 8y agoWow - these sites are awesome! May I ask how you generate links/publicity for these projects? https://chinesenewyear2018.com/ https://chinesenewyear2018.com/ in particular exploded in visibility on google. PS: Are you OK with me contacting you via mail with additional questions?
- moeamaya 8y agoThanks! Feel free to reach out, email in bio.
- chrismorgan 8y agoGradient Topography emits SVG, so you’re clearly not allergic to vector formats; yet Trianglify and Particles emit PNG because they’ve been drawn on a canvas rather than with SVG in the first place. Being able to emit both PNG and SVG would be best, instructing to use SVG where possible because it’s better than PNG.
- sithadmin 8y agoIs it just me, or are these unattractively low res?
- moeamaya 8y agoNo that's definitely not just you. I meant to update those, and will push that change up soon. Probably default to 2560 x 1440 until it is customizable. Thoughts?
- slavik81 8y agoAbsolutely. The current 1192x580 is far too low, especially for the backgrounds with thin lines like "Particles". By the way, the Particles backgrounds get slower and slower every time I choose a different color scheme. It seems to be calling updateEdges / drawEdge N times per frame, where N is the number of color schemes you've viewed. Looks beautiful, though. I'll definitely be checking back for high res versions.
- padwan 8y agoBug report: Cannot change color scheme after clicking "Gradient Topography" twice :)
- bhnmmhmd 8y agoSome of the saved backgrounds in PNG format have noises and lines in them, see for example: https://imgur.com/a/HDroZP1 https://imgur.com/a/HDroZP1 Otherwise, it's a very nice and neat website, kudos!
- philfrasty 8y agosame here, a lot more if you choose brighter colors: https://imgur.com/a/H5OIH4j https://imgur.com/a/H5OIH4j
- karimdag 8y agoI couldn’t download anything except for the last image (Safari, iOS 11.3) — it appears as “unknown” when I click the download button.
- cdnsteve 8y agoI'm curious as to the business model behind these type of sites?
- laumars 8y agoSomebody wanted to build something, so they did. Not everything published online is for immediate financial reward. Sometimes it's to build a digital portfolio. Sometimes it's to learn some new technologies. And sometimes it's just for the fun of it.
- argestes 8y agoI guess self promotion, mostly. Maybe a bit of feeling good and showing off.
- kevinherron 8y agoCustom resolutions would be great... need 5120x2880 for use as my background.
- wintorez 8y agoSo beautiful! I love the design.
- jdrbc 8y agoGreat patterns! If you want to build on Android I've got this open source background service https://github.com/jdrbc/SimpleBackgrounds https://github.com/jdrbc/SimpleBackgrounds
- ChrisArchitect 8y agogive the author some love ! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17133699 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17133699
- nedt 8y agoNice images, I like the content. Would just be nice if you could add anonymizeIp to GA (if it's needed at all) and maybe host the fonts yourself. Not only for GDPR, but just for privacy.