chronoskin is a kit of shapes, patterns and four loud colours for people who make posters. This handbook says what each piece is for and which rules are worth breaking.
Arcs, hoops and a field of dashes are new. Two shapes have new names and one is gone for good.
Read what changedA thin circle, drawn as a line and never filled.
Why words go on a flat block, with six examples.
One page now covers both kinds.
A table of which fill goes on which.
The renamed classes, side by side.
Forty-six of sixty-two shape pages are rewritten for the new version. The rest still describe 3.1 and say so at the top.
If a poster looks tidy, tilt one thing by four degrees and stop there.
Use a pattern big or not at all.
Ask, and the answer becomes the next page of the handbook.
Five short pages. Read them in order once, then never again.
A poster is a short list: name a ground, list the shapes that lie on it and say where the words go. The kit draws the rest.
Copy kit.css next to your own stylesheet and load it first. Nothing else is needed: the kit has no script and asks for no build step. Then describe a first poster:
posterground: dots
shapes:
- disc, large, across the seam
- squiggle, tilted
words: on a flat block
A shape now takes its size from the ground it lies on, so one class fits a poster and a phone.
The outlined shape is gone. A page that still asks for it shows a plain disc.
Three moves make a poster, and the order matters less than doing all three.
A poster that follows every page of this handbook is correct and a little dull. Pick one rule, break it once and leave the rest alone. The usual choice is the clashing pairtwo fills that sit side by side on purpose.
Every shape in the kit, its class and the sizes it comes in.
Version 3.2 retires no shape. Old names keep working until 4.0.
See what changed| Shape | Class | Status | Since | Sizes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disc | shape--disc | Stable | 1.0 | 5 | |
| Half disccalled dome before 3.0 | shape--half | Renamed | 1.0 | 5 | |
| Quarter | shape--quarter | Stable | 1.2 | 4 | |
| Triangle | shape--tri | Stable | 1.0 | 5 | |
| Block | shape--block | Stable | 1.0 | 3 | |
| Ring | shape--ring | New | 3.2 | 4 | |
| Outlined disc | shape--outline | Removed | 2.0 | 0 |
Every version, newest first, in one line per change.
Nine classes have new names. The old ones work until 4.0 and are listed side by side.
A question, or a mistake you found. Both end up as a better page.
On the quiet page pattern, yes. On every loud one, put a flat block under the words first.
The four fills, the ink and the ground. A fifth colour is for one small shape.
Nothing in the kit casts one. Let a block overlap its neighbour instead.
Yes. Every pattern is drawn from two flat colours, so it separates cleanly.