Hi everyone, here's my take at Plasma 5.16 wallpaper. It's named "Core":



(give a look to a better resolution here)

It was not mandatory, but I also specifically made one for Plasma Mobile. I decided to go for a 19:9 aspect ratio as that's the highest aspect ratio to be found on mobile, which
means all other phones can crop the top and bottom parts and enjoy the wallpaper as well.



(give a look to a better resolution here)

So, a little bit of background. I personally think that default wallpapers are really important for a project; they are the "face" of a project, and they get displayed in various official and non-official websites. Thus, it's important for somebody to look at a wallpaper and think, "this is about kde plasma", at the point where it becomes part of the brand. The change of artist is a bad new in visual consistency. This is why I tried to mantain the same elements Ken Vermette used.

For the color palette, I decided to keep a blue-red contrast that we can find in both Kokkini and Cluster. The colors are directly taken by Cluster, to provide as much visual consistency as possible. I also kept other elements, such as triangle gradients and the subdle yellow wireframe from Kokkini (zoom in into the sphere!).

On the other hand, I decided to be a bit more minimalistic than Ken. That's just personal preference. If you think it is too minimalistic, or if you have any feedback really, feel free to tell me, and I will look into it. I'm still in time to tweak some things here and there. I hope you like this though!

It is fully made with open source software and it's open source itself. Its license is as close as public domain as it gets (CC0). You can find all resolutions (5K and more!) and informations here.

This one is my favorite so far I like how it keeps traditional Plasma wallpaper style. Looks great on my desktop!

This is a very nice entry, but the colors feel a bit muted and dark. I wonder how adding a bit more vibrancy or lightness might look?

It looks like this. Do you like it?



Better resolution: https://i.postimg.cc/DywVFYLW/core.png

Links are dead :/

My bad, it's better now. The Plasma Mobile wallpapers is not updated yet.

I think the latest one is a bit too strong in regards to saturation and contrast, maybe something in between the old and the new one would work?