[Theme Changes] Attention Theme Makers: Upcoming Game Collections in ES

[mediamogul]

I have the day off and woke up with a little inspiration. I designed these for myself as a stopgap, but in the interest of sharing ideas, I thought I'd also post them here for feedback.

[pjft]

@mediamogul I love it!

The folders look stellar, and the logos also look quite nice, but as I'm used to seeing them in landscape, 16:9, I'm having a hard time comparing to the others :)

The "All Games" and "Favorites" look great, though without more "theme" context, I'm having a hard time figuring out whether the "Last Played" one is just a little too "big" vertically when compared to the rest or if it's just right. That's my only question.

[mediamogul]

@pjft

Context is key. Here they are in their natural habitat...

[pjft]

@mediamogul Context is key indeed!

It still looks slightly "taller" than other logos overall, but it's minor.

Looks great - thanks for sharing!

[mediamogul]

@pjft

It still looks slightly "taller" than other logos overall

Keep in mind that the logo in front is always enlarged. 'Last Played' is a bit taller than it's neighbors in the picture, but it's still in-line with the larger logos found in Carbon.

[pjft]

@mediamogul Hah, you are indeed correct! Forgot about that. :)

[UDb23]

@pjft Found some nice new fonts I believe would fit. As usual will update logos and custom texts over the weekend.

[pjft]

@udb23 Looking forward to it! I'm sure we'll have plenty of great options here to update Carbon then :)

Thanks all for the hard work!

[UDb23]

@pjft "controller" and Text icons for Carbon finalized (download here).

"Controllers" now all line art as requested (no fills); added one alternative "controller" for "custom collections.
Added new "custom collection" and "Favorites" texts.

(size should fit properly when in ES)

Can you test them and give me your feedback ?
Thanks.

[mediamogul]

@udb23

One thought off hand is that 'Custom Collections' is really close to the AdvanceMAME artwork currently in Carbon as seen below.

What about something that would evoke the notion of custom creation? There are probably more than a few solutions there, but one example would be an architect drafting font like the one below.

[pjft]

@udb23 thanks. I'll test them during the week, as I am unable to do so today. Thank you!

A thought on the naming of custom collections: that's actually mostly the internal name for it. It can end up being called that in the theme of you'd like it, but I don't object it having a more user-friendly name like "my collections", "game collections" or something.

Maybe I should stop naming things as that's clearly not my forte :p

Thank you!

[UDb23]

@mediamogul @pjft mmm...
ok let me think how I can get it right for both your comments...

btw: I referred to "Guardians of the galaxy" for font and colors for "collections".
Maybe different colors (metal like) could be enough and "My collections" as text ?

[mediamogul]

@udb23

Maybe different colors (metal like) could be enough and "My collections" as text ?

I think a change in colors would help to delineate the two logos nicely and metal seems like a great choice. As for naming conventions, it might be more cohesive to use 'Collections' rather than 'My Collections', due to the convention already existing for 'Favorites' rather than 'My Favorites'.

[pjft]

@mediamogul said in [Theme Changes] Attention Theme Makers: Upcoming Game Collections in ES:

@udb23

Maybe different colors (metal like) could be enough and "My collections" as text ?

I think a change in colors would help to delineate the two logos nicely and metal seems like a great choice. As for naming conventions, it might be more cohesive to use 'Collections' rather than 'My Collections', due to the convention already existing for 'Favorites' rather than 'My Favorites'.

Agreed. Ultimately, the naming I provided was more of guidance or direction than any mandatory decision.

In fact, as there aren't many themes yet with these features, we're kind of setting the standard for the future so make of it what you feel best!

[mediamogul]

@pjft

You were right about the logo sizes. The previous images I shared were mock-ups, but once they were actually added to the theme, they needed to be a good bit smaller. Also, I could have sworn that the front-most logo used to enlarge. Either that's been changed recently, or I'm a victim of the Mandella Effect.

[TMNTturtlguy]

@mediamogul you are correct, the center logo used to get larger.

[mediamogul]

@tmntturtlguy

Just out of curiosity, why was that changed?

[TMNTturtlguy]

@mediamogul I have no idea, lots of little things like this started happening with the carousel and and z index changes started rolling out. I don't think it was intentional.

[mediamogul]

@tmntturtlguy

Can't make an omelette...

[jdrassa]

By default, the center logo still gets larger. It is larger in all of the screens above. However, it is themable now as part of the carousel changes. Off hand I know that the nes mini theme doesn't change the size of the selected system.