v0.7.0

Features

• Undertone has its own app icon: the light and dark halves of its mark in macOS's icon shape, so Finder, System Settings and the login items show it instead of the generic app icon (#16)

Docs

• A richer README, social cards and full link previews for the website; docs pages now carry the site's own address in their links and previews (#16)

Install: brew install --cask mpdreamz/tap/undertone, or
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mpdreamz/undertone/main/install.sh | sh. Undertone updates itself.

v0.6.0

Features

• Undertone opens at login from a new install's first run, since it keeps your picture set, follows the schedule and draws lock screen motion only while it runs. Done once: turn it off in Settings › General or System Settings and it stays off. Existing installs keep the choice they have (#15)

Install: brew install --cask mpdreamz/tap/undertone, or
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mpdreamz/undertone/main/install.sh | sh. Undertone updates itself.

v0.5.0

Features

• Effects with their own settings: grain and the vignette are effects now, next to dither, halftone, glass, bloom, light leak, paper and posterize. Turn on as many as you like, each with its own sliders. Out of the box: the vignette and a subtle grain, as before. A random effect on each shuffle is there when you turn it on, with effects to leave out (#13)
• Leave styles and tonalities out: each is shuffled among the ones you leave checked, or always the same one (#13)
• Tonality by season: shuffles pick tonalities that suit the time of year, never mono, and a new season changes it on its own; southern hemisphere from your Mac's region (#14)
• A new settings window: a live preview of the picture showing now, every style and tonality drawn so you choose by eye, each effect drawn over your picture (#13)
• A smaller menu: Shuffle, Pause, Hide the Notch, Round Corners and the way to Settings; the rest moved into Settings (#13)
• One picture on every space by default (#13)
• The config file has a new layout; settings from older versions move over on their own (#13)

Docs: https://mpdreamz.github.io/undertone/

Install: brew install --cask mpdreamz/tap/undertone, or
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mpdreamz/undertone/main/install.sh | sh. Undertone updates itself.

v0.4.0

Features

• Settings live in ~/.config/undertone/config.toml (under $XDG_CONFIG_HOME when set), so you can keep them in your dotfiles: edits, chezmoi apply or a git pull apply within a second; changes from the menu write the file (through a symlink, to its target); a mistake falls back to that setting's default and is shown in the menu. What is showing now and pause stay out of the file. Your current settings move into it on first start (#12)
• undertone config prints where the file is; --defaults prints every setting; --check lists problems by line (#12)

Docs: https://mpdreamz.github.io/undertone/reference/configuration/

Install: brew install --cask mpdreamz/tap/undertone, or
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mpdreamz/undertone/main/install.sh | sh. Undertone updates itself.

v0.3.0

Features

• Lock screen motion timing: speed (calm, normal, lively), movement (subtle, normal, strong), how long the settle on unlock takes, and its easing (glide, ease out, spring) (#9)
• Round corners match macOS's windows: the same continuous curve, sized from real windows so every window tiled into a corner meets black; no radius to set (#10)

Docs: https://mpdreamz.github.io/undertone/

Install: brew install --cask mpdreamz/tap/undertone, or
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mpdreamz/undertone/main/install.sh | sh. Undertone updates itself.

v0.2.0

Features

• Lock screen motion: your picture drifts while the Mac is locked (Undertone as your screen saver) and slows to a stop on the desktop as you unlock (#8)
• Seven effects over any picture: dither, halftone, reeded glass, bloom, light leak, paper and posterize; locked, random or off (#7)
• undertone movie and undertone render --effect (#7, #8)

Docs: https://mpdreamz.github.io/undertone/

Install: brew install --cask mpdreamz/tap/undertone, or
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mpdreamz/undertone/main/install.sh | sh. Undertone updates itself.

v0.1.0

The first release of Undertone: hide the notch and the screen's borders under beautiful generated backgrounds that follow your light or dark theme and change on a schedule.

Features

• Hide the notch in a black menu bar strip, and round the corners below it so windows tiled into a corner meet black
• Eleven styles and eight tonalities, each in light and dark; style and tonality each random or locked
• A new picture every hour, 3 hours or day, on login and wake, from the menu, or with undertone shuffle
• A picture per space in one tonality, or the same everywhere; grain; an optional centred title
• undertone render draws any picture to a file
• Updates itself

Docs: https://mpdreamz.github.io/undertone/

Install: brew install --cask mpdreamz/tap/undertone, or
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mpdreamz/undertone/main/install.sh | sh. Undertone updates itself.