LINES & Triangles

Three wallpapers from our new blog engine

After open-sourcing our LINES blog platform, we thought we’d share some geometric wallpapers with you that we created along the way.

Two weeks ago, we open sourced our blog platform LINES — the one you’re looking at right now — for everyone to try out, customize, and collaborate. We also went the extra mile and created a set of fallback hero images, for the extra lazy bloggers out there. Since those turned out to be pretty nice, we scaled those up a little for your desktop and device wallpaper pleasures.

Set them directly from the previews or download the ZIP below.

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Enjoy.

Download lines_wallpaper.zip

Written on 2013-10-01 by Günther Beyer — Günther is a founder of Opoloo. He works at the intersection of UX/UI Design and Information Architecture. As a designer who writes, he has a true instinct for sustainable, holistic design concepts and loves pixel art as well as meticulously crafted stories. We call him Captain Firebeard.

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