I want to create a custom background for my Raspberry Pi 4B running Lakka OS. Since the RPi4 has better hardware than the previous versions and can handle more what is the best resolution for making a background for it? As for Themes can the icons be bigger than what they were before? Please some specifications would be appreciated. Im starting with a background but I would like to expand into a theme for it.
Would color fonts work? https://www.fontspace.com/category/color
I’m running Dynamic Backgrounds on my Pi 4 8gb and 1440x900 looks pretty clean. I have not been able to get custom icons to work but Lakka has a good set of them pre built in if you turn on advanced settings in the config file.
I eventually learned to use a bit of Inkscape to make icons for my custom assets. I tested it with a incomplete amount of icons and ended up filling the void with the monochrome set which you can get from their github. As for fonts I found a few from FontSpace such as Pixel Power Line.
I made icons with a 300x300 and they seem to be the same size as the 256x256 icons, I’m guessing there’s some default icon scaling. I use a RPI4 so I made my own theme folder which you can do but your contents need to have a correct file name and placement.
If you download the ones from GitHub you get a better idea how to make your own after inspecting and observing how they work. I haven’t played with making my own sounds for my themes because the default sounds are pretty good and I at the time could not think of about what I wanted.
As for background images I use 1920x1080 and they work well too on my RPI4. Except for some that are jpeg. Lakka seems to not like jpeg images. There are color fonts but I have not got around to testing those.
Links: Fonts - https://www.fontspace.com/search?q=pixel Retroarch Assets: https://github.com/libretro/retroarch-assets Inkscape - https://inkscape.org/
I recommend checking out Inkscape - its part of the Free and Open source crowd. I made a few for anyone to use.
