New free theme Lucca is chock full of contemporary style

April 9, 2021 by 

Diane Kern

See the excitement over the contemporary design of
our latest free theme

eCatholic’s newest free theme, Lucca, is one that will stop your cursor in its tracks - literally! Lucca features button hover-over effects that include a flash of color and a pop of animation. Add in other accents of unique style and art deco pumped into every corner, and one cannot help but scroll through each page to see what creative content can be crafted.

Take a look at Lucca’s big highlights

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More styling options with an art deco design

Sections Layouts give you that creative ability to add imagery and color to the background of your content in order to separate various pieces of information or make the important stuff pop. Lucca adds three art deco options to your background palette with a geometric pattern overlay. This fun pattern adds variety for how you want to cleverly show off each portion of content.

Don’t think the art deco stops there! Go ahead and add an interior image in your page settings and see it uploaded near the header of your site. Appearing perfectly accented with your theme’s primary color and an art deco overlay, the top of your interior pages are now as eye-catching as your most stunning homepage features.

Lucca design example: Art deco background options give a stylish pattern to enhance your content.
 

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Add movement with button animation and hover effects

You’ll love how Lucca adds to its fun contemporary feel with button animation. Notice the partial outline near buttons that extends to complete a rectangle shape as your cursor rolls right over. This animation can be seen with buttons for linked text, or found in the buttons of tabs or headline sections.

Let’s keep moving, because there’s even more animation snuck into this design. Check out how the News and Event sections use the same animated line effects that extend behind the featured image of news or events as your cursor scrolls over top. These shifting outlines offer a unique way of using the space already there in order to grab users’ attention.
 

Lucca design example: Animation within hover effects add unique style to buttons, news, and event feeds.
 

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Dramatic tones with light and dark options

When selecting your Lucca theme in the Design Studio notice the vast selection of colors to get you started, as well as their dark and light options. Light means your header and footer regions will be a clean white, and dark will change the regions to a dramatic black. These header options can really transform the tone of a site whether you'd like it to be light and airy, or a darkened hue.

Another thing to note about the header region is the size and space it offers so that your organization name and logo have plenty of room to nestle directly above your information below.

Lucca design example: Light and dark theme options give dramatic options for the header region.