What is it?
There are plenty of talented theme designers out there and
hundreds of free, quality themes. But I wanted something very specific. Here
was my wish-list:
- A specific 'sunrise' graphic, (somewhat artily)
suggesting warmth, increasing light, and an 'everything's going to be OK'
feel(!)
- The theme had to be vector, rather than bitmap-based,
so that it worked on ALL S60 3rd Edition smartphones, whatever the screen size
or aspect ratio
- No custom icons were to be used. Although these are all
very pretty in other people's themes, they make switching between
themes/devices tricky as you don't instantly recognise application icons. In
addition, sticking to default S60 icons meant that the theme file was smaller
and the theme itself (hopefully) would be slightly faster and more
efficient
- Tied in with the subject matter, the background had to
be light enough to act as a torch at night time, without being too
'artificially' white/bright.
- All text had to be black - I can't stand themes where
text is grey on black, or grey on white, or similar. Contrast is everything
when you're squinting at a small smartphone screen. In addition, black on a
light background works much better when viewing a screen in sunlight, where
there's no backlight to help and you're relying on natural contrast and
transreflectivity
Phew. I had a go at the theme myself, but it quickly
became apparent that I needed an expert. In fact, I needed THE expert -
PiZero - he
created my theme to order, exclusively for 3-Lib, and now you can download it
and use it on your own smartphones. See below.
Download it now for Symbian OS/S60 3rd Edition
(e.g.
Nokia E61, N73, N93, N95, N82...)
Download the theme here as sunrise.sis (77K).
Thanks again to PiZero and thanks for visiting 3-Lib!
Other top (recommended S60 3rd Edition) theme sites
Start with other PiZero
creations
Then browse through some of the themes that
P@sco has
been collecting
Finally, you can make your own themes, to order, in a
matter of minutes, using OwnSkin.
Have fun! |
