Yah, yah, Halloween has barely passed and Thanksgiving isn’t here yet, but the elves at Plaidapps are working hard on getting the clock faces tuned up for The Big Holiday™ at the end of the year.
Here are a few teasers to tide you over while we work day and night to bring you Xmas Cheer!
So stay tuned, you should see an update soon….
Halloween Hands. You didn’t think we’d forget about Halloween did you? Halloween Hands includes more monster fingers than you can count. Well, actually, you have to count them to tell the time. But it comes complete with spinning eyeballs and a trove of candy and Halloween icons across the bottom for counting seconds.
Tell the time by counting each creepy finger. The small hands always have 5 fingers up, so you really only have to count to 4, as long as you can do simple math. If scary monster hands and spinning eyeballs are not your thing, it might be best to skip this one ane wait for the Christmas clocks.
Designed by @hollowheadart in Portland, Oregon, a town nearby to Plaid’s hometown of Boring. More of @hollowheadart’s work can be seen in other Clockinator faces, and on his website at http://hollowheadstudio.com.
Dairysam is pure watercolor joy that hails from our neighbors to the north. Based in Toronto, @dairysam has provided Clockinator with some playful, and colorful, artwork. Color variations are chosen at random each time a digit changes.
A parade of characters, marches across the bottom of the screen when seconds are turned on. If you randomize them, you get a slight variation in colors, and an occasional procession of chickens!
More of their work can be seen at their website http://dairysam.wix.com/portfolio.
Circus is reminiscent of that place where barkers might be calling you in to see oddities or to have your fortunes told. In the olden days they had exotic animals like elephants and lions from far-away places. With this clock face, you can almost smell the popcorn in the air and the straw on the ground!
This festive face even has it’s own train pulling into the station once per minute (when you have the seconds turned on).
12 different color palettes are available, choose your favorite from the settings. If you haven’t found the settings yet, you can get there by tapping once anywhere on the clock – make the settings go away by tapping anywhere again (except on an actual setting, of course!).
Designed by @hollowheadart in Portland, Oregon, a town nearby to Plaid’s hometown of Boring. More of @hollowheadart’s work can be seen in other Clockinator faces, and on his website at http://hollowheadstudio.com.
Clockinator 1.3 includes 3 new faces, as well as some under-the-hood improvements.
Circus has numbers designed and hand drawn by @hollowheadart. Reminiscent of what you might see at a circus, this festive face even has it’s own train!
12 different color palettes are available, choose your favorite from the settings at the bottom of the screen.
Dairysam is pure watercolor joy that hails from our neighbors to the north. Based in Toronto, @dairysam has provided Clockinator with some playful, and colorful, artwork. Color variations are chosen at random each time a digit changes.
A parade of characters, marches across the bottom of the screen when seconds are turned on. If you randomize them, you get a slight variation in colors, and an occasional procession of chickens!
More of their work can be seen at their website http://dairysam.wix.com/portfolio.
Halloween Hands. You didn’t think we’d forget about Halloween did you? This update includes more monster fingers than you can count. Well, actually, you have to count them to tell the time. But it comes complete with spinning eyeballs and a trove of candy and Halloween icons across the bottom for counting seconds.
Designed by @hollowheadart in Portland, Oregon, a town nearby to Plaid’s hometown of Boring. More of @hollowheadart’s work can be seen at http://hollowheadstudio.com.
Other improvements include the consolidation of the rest of the faces. In previous versions you swiped through from one face to the next to see colors change. All of that is gone now and each Family of Faces can be swiped to exactly once with options in the settings at the bottom of the screen to choose color variations. A few other twists and turns have been added here and there as well. See what you can find!
With every new clock face comes a new palette. Today I spent most of the day finalizing a few palettes for the upcoming Circus face.
I found a nice tool to help organize and output the colors I want to use. It’s called Pastel and is available on the macOS App Store. You can read more about it and what it does over there if you are interested in the tools.
After poking at it for a while and getting feedback from people all over the place, these palettes are the ones and the names I finally settled on. A few examples of the actual clock face rendered in the new palettes are shown below:
This is the Wallaby palette.
This is the Cowboy Boots palette.
This is the Haunted Mansion palette.
I expect the full Circus clock face to be released, along with a few seasonal goodies, around the beginning of October.
Cactus Hands Is a fun way to tell time by counting fingers, IF your fingers were made of cactus and were growing in pots!
You can tell time by counting the fingers on each cactus. Of course, with only five fingers per hand, it can get a little tough to count to 8! So sometimes there will be two hands per digit.
Designed by @hollowheadart in Portland, Oregon, a town nearby to Plaid’s hometown of Boring. More of @hollowheadart’s work can be seen in other Clockinator faces, and on his website at http://hollowheadstudio.com.
Subway Signs has numbers that blend with the background in either dark mode or light mode. The time can be read with negative space included in each circle. This face is the first to use some new controls in the settings that can be tapped for different colors.
10 basic colors are available, or you can let Clockinator show random combinations.
Keeping with the Subway theme, the seconds hand on this face is a randomized subway car showing people on their way to somewhere. A new piece becomes visible with each passing second.
Subway Signs was designed and coded by @Pumasalad for Plaid, Inc.
Clockinator 1.2 includes a couple of new clock faces, as well as some under-the-hood improvements.
Subway Signs has numbers that blend with the background in either dark mode or light mode. The time can be read with negative space included in each circle. This face also introduces a some new controls in the settings that can be tapped for different colors.
10 basic colors are available, or you can let Clockinator show random combinations.
Cactus Hands Is a fun way to tell time by counting fingers, IF your fingers were made of cactus and were growing in pots! It’s also a hint at some other things to come.
You can tell time by counting the fingers on each cactus. Of course, with only five fingers per hand, it can get a little tough to count to 8! So sometimes there will be two hands per digit.
Cactus Hands was created by @hollowheadart, more of his work can be seen at his website http://hollowheadstudio.com
Balloons is so ballooney that you can almost hear the numbers squeak when they they change.
This is another four layer image, although two of the layers don’t get manipulated by the app. As you would expect, there is a background layer of a big solid color and a foreground layer that has the stars mapped out. The other two layers created the shading effect to give the numbers the 3D look. The original art for these is just black and white, the app applies all of the color.
Here’re a couple of pro tips: tapping on a color icon more than once reverses the colors of the background and the stars in the image. Tapping on that last icon will select completely random colors for every digit.
Balloons was designed and coded by @Pumasalad for Plaid, Inc.