Ever since I got my Nokia N79, I am searching for a good & usable theme for it. Since its a mobile phone which while working is straight in front of your face, Icons in 2D Perspective look better then 3D perspective. So far there are 3 icon sets for Symbian S60 which I have come to admire..

1) Pizero Icons

2) Tango Icons

3) Nokia S60 5th Edition Touch Icons

I requested Pizero to fix some minor flaws in his Pure Black theme some time back to which he said he will do it soon. During my search I came across Nahid’s Blog who has made some seriously good themes based on the S60 Touch Icons for S60 3rd edition phones. However I am not a fan of blue color over black color so I requested him to make a black & gray theme too. Ian Flahorn is extracting the Touch Icons from Nokia 5800 Xpress Music but it will release soon.

Since I got my own symbiansigned certificate sometime back, I decided to look upon & make my own theme based on freely available Tango Icons using Nokia’s Carbide UI. The aim of my theme’s design is not something flashy or graphical but something simple which can be easily used everyday. While working on my phone outside I found that in direct sunlight the screen gets dark & on a black background, black or gray text is not quite readable. So I paid attention on the way at least I would prefer to use a theme & started to create the mockups of what to expect from the end result. The first variation of this theme will not have many colors, just black gradient & gray because I intend to make this theme very usable & easy on the eyes both indoor & outdoor. I just want this theme to be as perfect & simple as possible, nothing flashy.

Right now I am using Tango Icons & learning how to make a theme using Carbide.UI but if possible, I would love to useS60 Touch Icons as they are even better then tango Icons for a mobile phone’s screen. Here is what I think for the Standby Screen…how is it, please provide comments so as to make it better.

Standby

If you want a preview then just copy this PNG Image to your phone & watch it in full screen. Right now I am making it for Symbian S60 3rd Edition with FP2 only.

Keep in mind that there is a similar Tango theme for Symbian but the author is no longer updating it for new phone & new icons so I have decided to make something similar but with full icons.