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Submitted: February 8, 2012
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Espada - Firefox Theme Mockupby *SpewBoy

Designs & Interfaces / Application Interfaces

A theme for the mainstream.

The most popular themes on AMO are dark, and I notice that a great number of you guys like the squared options in Stratiform. It probably has to do with some primal love of sharp, pointy dark objects that we have all had since we stepped out of that wet stuff we call the ocean (for those of you who agree with Darwin's theory of evolution).

So anyway, with all the time and effort I (and ~SoapyHamHocks, the co-dev of Stratiform, FoxE9, etc.) have put into our stuff, we only get less than a tenth of the user base of these popular themes. Hence I have come up with this mainstream, pleasant-for-everyone-that-doesn't-really-care-about-how-their-browser-looks-so-long-as-it-is-different-and-dark-and-has-pointy-edges theme.

Hence, it has a fitting name. Espada means "sword" in Spanish and is also the name of a model of Lamborghini, which are loud, obnoxious looking cars that everyone wants because they go fast and look cool.

So keeping in mind my goals, which are to:

Appeal to as many users as possible

Be dark, sharp and obnoxious to look at

Keep the default interface mostly intact and just change the things that won't make it incompatible with major add-ons

Be easy get used to and use

What do you think?

Update:

Tweaked the gradients

Made the text fields rounded and deeper looking

Added gloss... EVERYWHERE

More metallic looking icons

Softer text shadows

Tab bar now has a glow behind it

Another update:

Old mockup got corrupted, started fresh

All toolbars have 1px curved edges

Tabs have bottom curves that curve away from the selected tab (similar to Safari)

Inactive tabs are lighter in colour

Selected tab curves at the bottom and has a stronger highlight

Tab bar glow has been removed (mostly due to laziness)

App menu button is styled like the inactive tabs to allow for a better hover and pressed state

Nav bar is 1px shorter

Text fields are 2px taller

Text field icons have more spacing to replicate how it would have to look in the theme (even if it does look worse)

More spacing between the toolbar icons to replicate how it would look in the theme

Icons are now glossy

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~Staneck Mar 28, 2013

I always loved this [link] - yours is pretty close

~hoangnhat1996 Jun 11, 2012 Student Photographer

when will this be finished? i really love it! awesome job.

*SpewBoy Jun 12, 2012 Hobbyist Interface Designer

When I have the time. I'm currently at uni (just had an exam today, yay), so I either spend my time working, thinking about working, or gaming hard

No time for hobbies

Once the semester is over, I might have a bit of time to spare, but I'm still not sure what I'll do in it. So many things that require my attention

It IS something I want to finish, but I can't say it will happen any time soon, especially since I'm lazy and procrastinate and start new projects every 5 minutes.