[New Theme] - Indent. Supports Video Preview and Custom Carousel
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Here, I stole the font from the futura theme and changed its font size to 0.027. Not saying that you should steal the font for your official, but a font can make it look a lot more interesting. Looks so less boring. -
@lostless said in [[New Theme] - Indent. Supports Video Preview and Custom Carousel]
...I stole the font from the futura theme and changed its font size to 0.027. Not saying that you should steal the font for your official, but a font can make it look a lot more interesting. Looks so less boring.
So so you don't say. You stole the font from my theme... ts, ts, ts...
[/endofsarcasm]It does look good though.
A font can have a large impact on the looks of a theme. I went through a couple of fonts before I could decide.
I haven't looked at your theme yet but the screenshots look great. Well done!
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@FlyingTomahawk lol, I just like the font you used. Its very pleasing to the eye to me. I used it as an example of how a font can change a feel. By no means that I think that he should steal your font for his theme.
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@lostless You're right, that does look better. I spent so long on the artwork that I neglected the regular text. I'll have a look for an alternative and then update accordingly.
I work in Web, so I use Roboto a lot. It's a nice, clean, easy to read font, but it doesn't really suit this theme.
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@mattrixk
Last time I mess with your theme. I promise :D. Anyway, a font that is rounded I think will work best as the font for the carousel is VERY rounded. This is the Ubuntu condensed font as another example. -
The font I used is free to use by anyone. I have no copyright on it. So please go ahead and use it if it matches the theme.
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Okay, so I've had a bit of a look through google fonts and found a couple I don't mind, but I can't really choose.
BubblegumSans-Regular
Boogaloo-Regular
Neucha
I'm leaning towards Boogaloo, as Bubblegum is a bit too square and sharp and Neucha is probably too thin. The only downside of Boogaloo is that the font is so condensed. I'd prefer it to be a wider font.
@lostless: Ubuntu does look nice.
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My vote goes to Boogaloo.
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I like all three. Can't decide. BUTTTTTTTT..... I vote Boogaloo as well. ......
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@mattrixk
I liked the way it looked with the default font, but if I had to decide between the 3 you showed there, I would rather take Boogaloo than the others -
@mattrixk This looks great with Bubblegum or Boogaloo. I'm just not a fan of meta-data so I'll always go with a simple theme that just shows a gamelist and art. Only one criticism... Why no ColecoVision? Shame on you...joke!. It would be nice if you added it when you get the time.
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Thanks for the input guys. It looks like Boogaloo is in the lead, but I don't really want to just "settle", so I might keep looking for another font tomorrow.
@AlexMurphy: I ran a poll a little while ago to find out the most used systems so I would know the best ones to target. The idea was to make images for the main ones, then take requests from people if they want one that isn't there. So, I now have a request for ColecoVision, and I'll get onto that tomorrow (or maybe later, we'll see how things go).
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Okay, so I actually really liked @lostless' idea and I've gone with the Ubuntu font, but in Medium weight. I'll have to update the screenshots tomorrow. My lunch break is about to end.
@AlexMurphy: ColecoVision has been added.
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very nice and can tell you put a lot of time into it. I am just now getting into the theme scene and my biggest curiosity is with the ability to manipulate the carousel, but it has me stumped. Maybe my problem is that I am using the tooolkit and vers 1.5.7 of it doesn't support it?
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@fnkngrv If you get the v1.1 release of the Toolkit, the version of ES contained within should work with Custom Carousels without issue. If you have a look at the BaseVid theme, it was created to give an example of Custom Carousels and Video Previews.
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So an older version of the toolkit has newer features to play with and test??
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Sorry @fnkngrv, but I'm not really sure I understand what you are asking. If you look in the releases page of the Toolkit, you'll see there are only 2 releases. The original release (v1.0) is just a bunch of fake roms with scraped images and gamelists, and a couple of extra bits, but no ES.
The main release (v1.1) is the full Toolkit that includes a version of ES built by @jdrassa that supports both Video Previews and Custom Carousels.
I don't know what you mean when you mention "vers 1.5.7", as the Toolkit has never had that version number.
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@mattrixk Just saw this. Thank you very much. It's a very popular system, often overlooked. I appreciate you taking my request on board. Cheers.
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