Bootswatch is a collection of free themes for Twitter Bootstrap. Check it out at bootswatch.com.
Head over to Bootswatch and download the bootstrap.min.css file associated with a swatch.
In Bootstrap’s CSS directory, you’ll find a stylesheet in full (bootstrap.css) and minified (bootstrap.min.css) forms. Rename them or move them to a safe place, and replace with the downloaded file. If you ever change your mind, simply drop in another swatch or switch back to the original.
For use with Rails, check out bootswatch-rails (Sass) and twitter-bootswatch-rails (LESS).
Bootswatch is an open source project, and you’re welcome to modify the swatches further or create your own. If you’re interested, fork or follow the GitHub repository. The files of interest are in the gh-pages branch.
Each raw swatch consists of two LESS files. One is variables.less, which is included by default in Bootstrap and allows you to customize these settings. The other is a file called bootswatch.less that introduces more extensive structural changes.
Check out the README in the swatchmaker directory for step-by-step instructions on building your own swatch.
A simple API is available for integrating your platform with Bootswatch.
The swatches are housed in an array called themes, and each swatch has the following properties: name, description, preview, thumbnail, css, css-min, less, and less-variables.
CORS and JSONP are supported. Send your request to http://api.bootswatch.com.
A simple demo, using mustache.js for templating: http://jsbin.com/asowud/1/edit
Please send feedback to thomas@thomaspark.me. For more information, visit http://thomaspark.me/2012/02/introducing-bootswatch/.
Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton for Bootstrap.
James Taylor for cors-lite.
Zack Maril for bootswatch/swatchmaker/watcher.rb.
Copyright 2012 Thomas Park
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