Mood Themes

Dreamwidth is open to the submission of public mood themes.

Background info

The mood theme system is set up like a tree, with similar moods capable of inheriting the master picture. For instance, you can choose to set a picture for "angry", which is a top-level mood, and have it inherit to "aggravated", which is a second-level mood under "angry". Second-level moods can have sub-moods as well, which also can inherit; "rushed" is a subset of "stressed", which is a subset of "angry".

For more information, see the hierarchical list, below.

You can create a mood theme with as few as 15 images if you want, although for Dreamwidth we prefer as many unique images as possible.

Guidelines

• Must not use any images or source to which you do not hold sole rights. For example: no publicity photos, no screencaps, no art that is not in the public domain, and so forth. Images must be entirely your own work, and you must be the sole owner.

• Must be reasonably-sized. Smaller is better; ideally, no more than 30px by 30px, although exceptions can be made.

• If animation is used, animation should be smooth, slow, and unobtrusive -- no blinking or flashing. It should also loop smoothly, with no jerking or seizing at the end of the animation.

• You must be willing for us to place your work under a generally-accepted open license, permitting others to re-use your images and permitting Dreamwidth to include your images in our source code distribution.

• Mood themes should ideally have separate images for all 134 separate moods. However, we know that's not always possible. If you choose to take advantage of the mood theme inheritance, you should at the very least have separate images for all 15 top-level moods, and the more secondary and tertiary (inherited) moods you can create separate pictures for, the better.

• Please make your images as high-resolution as you can.

• Images for each mood should either be background-transparent and anti-aliased to display smoothly on backgrounds of all colors, or use a border that will distinguish the mood icon from the background.

• We do prefer PNG over JPG. However, as many browsers won't support PNG transparency, if you're using transparency, please save your images as a transparent GIF instead.

• If your mood theme involves human faces or figures, please think carefully about the assumptions you're making about skin color. We won't accept a mood theme that doesn't reflect the diversity of human faces and appearances, either via having different phenotypical appearances for different moods (although be careful to avoid racial stereotyping with your choices of mood -> face correspondance) or by making several different phenotype mood themes available. Alternately, only show human figures that are clearly exaggerated, such as purple skin or stick figures.

Submission

There are two ways you can submit a mood theme to us for consideration.

EITHER:

• Title each image with the name of the mood ("angry.png", "rushed.png", and so forth). Add a plain-text document explaining any special instructions, such as inheritance. (Please also include your name or nickname and your email address in the text file.) Put all images in a separate folder, along with the text document, and zip the folder for emailing.

OR:

• Provide us with a link to the mood theme uploaded to a LiveJournal-based site, if you've already uploaded it somewhere.

Email your submissions to denise, along with a statement that the images you're submitting are your own original work.

Mood theme list

Hierarchical

• angry
  • aggravated
  • annoyed
  • bitchy
  • cranky
  • cynical
  • enraged
  • frustrated
  • grumpy
  • infuriated
  • irate
  • irritated
  • moody
  • pissed off
  • stressed
    • rushed
• awake
• confused
  • curious
• determined
  • predatory
• devious
• energetic
  • bouncy
  • hyper
• enthralled
• happy
  • amused
  • cheerful
  • chipper
  • ecstatic
  • excited
    • high
    • horny
  • good
  • grateful
  • impressed
  • jubilant
  • loved
  • optimistic
    • hopeful
  • pleased
  • refreshed
    • rejuvenated
  • relaxed
    • calm
    • mellow
    • peaceful
    • recumbent
    • satisfied
      • content
        • complacent
        • indifferent
      • full
      • relieved
  • silly
    • crazy
    • ditzy
    • flirty
    • giddy
    • giggly
    • mischievous
      • naughty
    • quixotic
    • weird
  • surprised
    • shocked
  • thankful
  • touched
• indescribable
• nerdy
  • dorky
  • geeky
• okay
  • blah
  • lazy
    • exanimate
      • apathetic
      • blank
    • lethargic
    • listless
• sad
  • bored
  • crappy
  • crushed
  • depressed
  • disappointed
  • discontent
    • envious
  • gloomy
    • pessimistic
  • jealous
  • lonely
  • melancholy
  • morose
  • numb
  • rejected
  • sympathetic
  • uncomfortable
    • cold
    • dirty
    • drunk
    • exhausted
      • drained
      • tired
        • groggy
        • sleepy
    • guilty
    • hot
    • hungry
    • restless
    • sick
      • nauseated
    • sore
    • thirsty
  • worried
• scared
  • anxious
    • distressed
  • embarrassed
  • intimidated
  • nervous
• thoughtful
  • contemplative
  • nostalgic
  • pensive
• working
  • accomplished
  • artistic
  • busy
  • creative
  • productive

Alphabetical

• accomplished
• aggravated
• amused
• angry
• annoyed
• anxious
• apathetic
• artistic
• awake
• bitchy
• blah
• blank
• bored
• bouncy
• busy
• calm
• cheerful
• chipper
• cold
• complacent
• confused
• contemplative
• content
• cranky
• crappy
• crazy
• creative
• crushed
• curious
• cynical
• determined
• depressed
• devious
• dirty
• ditzy
• disappointed
• discontent
• distressed
• dorky
• drained
• drunk
• ecstatic
• embarrassed
• energetic
• enraged
• enthralled
• envious
• exanimate
• excited
• exhausted
• flirty
• frustrated
• full
• geeky
• giddy
• giggly
• gloomy
• good
• grateful
• groggy
• grumpy
• guilty
• happy
• high
• hopeful
• horny
• hot
• hungry
• hyper
• impressed
• indescribable
• indifferent
• infuriated
• intimidated
• irate
• irritated
• jealous
• jubilant
• lazy
• lethargic
• listless
• lonely
• loved
• melancholy
• mellow
• mischievous
• moody
• morose
• naughty
• nauseated
• nerdy
• nervous
• nostalgic
• numb
• okay
• optimistic
• peaceful
• pensive
• pessimistic
• pissed off
• pleased
• predatory
• productive
• quixotic
• recumbent
• refreshed
• rejected
• rejuvenated
• relaxed
• relieved
• restless
• rushed
• sad
• satisfied
• scared
• shocked
• sick
• silly
• sleepy
• sore
• stressed
• surprised
• sympathetic
• thankful
• thirsty
• thoughtful
• tired
• touched
• uncomfortable
• weird
• working
• worried