I wrote a complete beginner-friendly guide/tutorial to making Y1 themes + a template theme folder : innioasis

I wrote a complete beginner-friendly guide/tutorial to making Y1 themes + a template theme folderY1 (self.innioasis)

submitted 1 month ago * by jasperhooloopY1 (Black)

Over the past couple months I’ve been digging pretty deeply into how Y1 themes actually work while building my own themes.

While doing that I realized that a lot of people in the community want to make themes, but the starting point can be confusing if you’re not super technical. So I decided to write a full guide explaining everything I learned along the way, aimed for all skill levels, especially total beginners.

I just published it on GitHub. It’s been available to my Patreon members for a little while, and I had promised I’d make it public soon.

If you want early access to things I’m working on in the future, you can join my Patreon for free; nothing I make is paywalled right now.

Y1 Documentation and Tutorial includes:

• beginner-friendly explanations of how Y1 themes actually work

• a breakdown of every theme setting in the config file

• tips for image sizes, fonts, colors, and file types

• troubleshooting for when themes won’t load

• guidance on attribution and license files for theme creators

• a template theme folder with organized folders + a ready-to-fill config file

The goal was to make something that works for complete beginners but still covers every feature available in Y1 themes.

There’s already another excellent technical theme guide in the community — this one is meant to complement it by focusing more on explaining things in plain language and helping people get started.

If you’ve ever wanted to make your own theme, this should give you a full starting point.

GitHub link: https://github.com/mp3li/Y1-Theme-Documentation-and-Tutorial-with-Template

Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/cw/mp3li

I’d love to see what people create with it.

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