A Sneak Peak at Aristo 2 As the Cappuccino Conference in the states winds down, a sneak peak at Aristo 2 was announced over Twitter. Frequent readers will remember that Sofa designed the original theme for the Cappuccino framework - and my jQuery UI theme was based off of this.  Not only does the update refresh familiar UI components, it also includes an exciting new icon pack. From what you can see below, they’re nothing to laugh at either. A preliminary count shows 108 icons available in the same glyph style no doubt popularised by iOS and now OS X. The changes have already been reflected in the design section of Sofa’s website, but the PSD on their GitHub repository remains unchanged. You can get a more in depth view of both the UI components and the icon set by downloading the sneak peak of Aristo 2. So Will I Be Making an Aristo 2.0 jQuery UI Theme? Initially, no. I think that the original Aristo theme is still travelling along quite nicely. The design direction the new theme is taking is not entirely different enough to warrant the extra time. It’s also worth considering that a lot of the unique touches in Aristo 2 don’t translate that well to jQuery UI themes. The modal and datepicker are just different enough to cause a few cross-browser headaches. Other components like checkboxes, radio buttons and dropdowns aren’t natively supported - even if popular plugins do exist. Hats off as usual to Sofa, it’s no surprise they were acquired by Facebook.
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A Sneak Peak at Aristo 2

As the Cappuccino Conference in the states winds down, a sneak peak at Aristo 2 was announced over Twitter. Frequent readers will remember that Sofa designed the original theme for the Cappuccino framework - and my jQuery UI theme was based off of this.  Not only does the update refresh familiar UI components, it also includes an exciting new icon pack. From what you can see below, they’re nothing to laugh at either. A preliminary count shows 108 icons available in the same glyph style no doubt popularised by iOS and now OS X.

The changes have already been reflected in the design section of Sofa’s website, but the PSD on their GitHub repository remains unchanged.

You can get a more in depth view of both the UI components and the icon set by downloading the sneak peak of Aristo 2.

So Will I Be Making an Aristo 2.0 jQuery UI Theme?

Initially, no. I think that the original Aristo theme is still travelling along quite nicely. The design direction the new theme is taking is not entirely different enough to warrant the extra time. It’s also worth considering that a lot of the unique touches in Aristo 2 don’t translate that well to jQuery UI themes. The modal and datepicker are just different enough to cause a few cross-browser headaches. Other components like checkboxes, radio buttons and dropdowns aren’t natively supported - even if popular plugins do exist.

Hats off as usual to Sofa, it’s no surprise they were acquired by Facebook.

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