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Light WordPress Themes
33 original Light themes, each with a live demo and one signature interaction.
Patina
$69Patina is built for auction houses, working from a simple premise: what a thing is, and what it has been. A real WebGL2 and Three.js renderer lets objects be examined under raking light, the same low, grazing angle appraisers use to reveal wear, repair, and age that flat photography hides. The rest of the site runs on custom PHP with no page builder, keeping catalogue and provenance pages exact rather than assembled from generic blocks.
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Rill
$89The glow and the water are one system. Rill runs a real-time WebGL2 shallow-water simulation — an actual finite-difference solution of the 2D wave equation — and samples its height field on the CPU to drive a live glass inner-glow, layered over genuine backdrop-filter refraction rather than a static blur. Installation and Material are cross-linked custom post types built around that same glass system, with an AJAX commission enquiry form for studio leads.
Lantern
$95The page isn't styled — it's lit. Lantern drives the whole page from registered, @property-typed custom properties carrying a live lighting state — key, wash, haze, tint — so scrolling runs a literal lighting cue stack rather than a scroll animation. The hero renders volumetric light beams through haze off the main thread, a desk scene mixes six lanterns additively in linear light, and colour is authored in OKLCH because a dimmer is fundamentally a lightness axis; the whole layout is built as a cue sheet aligned on CSS subgrid.
Verrière
$89The page is built as a leaded light. Verrière sets content inside irregular, hand-built glass quarries separated by real lead cames instead of a rectangular card grid, with an SVG-filter antique-glass texture on every pane. A scroll-driven sun angle relights every pane live through @property-typed custom properties for genuinely smooth interpolation, saturated ruby, cobalt, emerald and amber sit on near-black lead, and a fixed vertical navigation rail replaces the usual top bar and full-viewport photo hero.
Weft
$95How light behaves inside woven silk — the whole site. Weft runs a real-time cloth simulation lit with genuine thin-film interference for shot-silk iridescence and an anisotropic woven BRDF, and the page grid itself is a literal weave draft — threading strip, tie-up block, treadling column, drawdown field. Moon white and ink blue-black carry the palette, with one crimson accent reserved for the thread currently running, built for a real silk weaving mill.
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Absolue
74A real note-evaporation timeline, a real concentration ladder, and a real seven-family wheel — the actual structure of perfumery, not a shopping-cart skin. Persistent 2D gold flow shader, no 3D. Top, heart, and base notes are positioned on a genuine 0-10 hour axis by real relative volatility, the concentration ladder runs extrait through fraîche, and the seven-family wheel organizes eight demo compositions spanning every classic olfactory family.
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Marginalia
58A real citation graph between your own posts, and a real calendar of when you actually wrote them — not a recommendation engine, not a manufactured streak. Restrained persistent desk-light background, no shop, no gimmicks.
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Quadrangle
$89An independent school theme on a real GPU calculation of dappled canopy light.
