Emberline
Contemporary glassblowing studio and hot shop theme, built around the color of the work itself. A molten amber-to-ember gradient is held in reserve for glow moments — furnace shots, finished pieces catching light — rather than spread thin across the whole site. Bricolage Grotesque's variable-width axis gives headlines the kind of stretch and weight change a blown form has. The base runs warm charcoal instead of the cold near-blacks used elsewhere in the catalog, so the site feels closer to the shop floor than a gallery.
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Highlights
- Warm charcoal base — not the cold near-blacks of prior dark themes
- Molten amber-to-ember gradient reserved for glow moments only
- Bricolage Grotesque variable-width type stretches like molten glass
- Piece/Collection content type pairing gallery work with workshop offerings
Overview
Emberline is built on warm charcoal rather than the cold near-blacks used elsewhere in this catalogue’s dark themes — a deliberate choice, since a glassblowing hot shop’s actual palette is warm: molten amber and ember-orange are reserved as glow accents on key moments (a piece reveal, a call to action) rather than smeared across the whole page. Bricolage Grotesque, a genuine variable font, lets display type widen and narrow the way molten glass itself stretches.
A Piece/Collection content-type structure lets a working hot shop show finished work alongside workshop and class offerings, matching how glassblowing studios actually run — half gallery, half working school.
What's included
- Full theme source — every template, style sheet & script
- One-click demo importer (idempotent, no page builder)
- Live Customizer controls for copy, colours & content
- Translation-ready .pot file + RTL stylesheet
- HTML documentation + a CHANGELOG file
- Lifetime updates + 6 months support (renewable)
Specifications
| WordPress | 5.6 – 7.0 |
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| PHP | 8.0 – 8.3 |
| Browsers | Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge (latest) |
| Layout | Fully responsive, mobile → desktop |
| Localization | Translation-ready · RTL included |
| Accessibility | Keyboard-navigable · prefers-reduced-motion |
| Page builder | Not required — native Customizer |
| License | GNU GPL v2 · single-site commercial |
Release
The complete, dated version history ships in the theme’s CHANGELOG file. Every purchase includes lifetime access to future updates.
