Origin story: your Home Screen
How to make a comic book aesthetic iPhone Home Screen
Comic Weather is a weather app for iPhone that turns your forecast into a comic book page. Its painted widgets make a good centerpiece for a whole Home Screen. Here is how to build one around them, from the wallpaper to the Lock Screen.
1. Pick a skin, and the look follows
Every look starts with a skin. Open Comic Weather, go to Settings > Theme and choose one:
- Four-Color, the newsstand look: Ben-Day dots, bold primary colors, heavy black ink. Bright, loud, pop art.
- Bubblegum Bloom, pastel pop: bubblegum pink, mint and lilac in soft violet ink, with cherry blossoms and sparkles.
- Megacity Manga: dense manga ink over a towering city, on off-white paper with cobalt and vermilion accents.
- Midnight City, gothic noir: near-black pages, amber lamplight, spires in the rain.
The skin reprints the whole app and every widget, and even swaps the Comic Weather icon on your Home Screen for its own (iOS asks you to confirm), so the rest of the screen only has to agree with it.
2. Choose a wallpaper that leaves room for the ink
The widgets carry a lot of detail, so a quiet wallpaper works best: a flat color, a paper texture or a soft gradient.
- For Four-Color: cream, warm yellow or a halftone dot pattern.
- For Bubblegum Bloom: blush pink, mint, or a pastel grid or polka-dot pattern.
- For Megacity Manga: off-white, light grey or a fine dot pattern.
- For Midnight City: black, deep navy, or a dim photo of streetlights at night.
3. Tint the app icons to match
iOS 18 can tint every app icon in one color. Touch and hold the Home Screen, tap Edit > Customize, choose Tinted and move the color slider:
- Four-Color: a warm yellow or a primary red.
- Bubblegum Bloom: bubblegum pink or lilac.
- Megacity Manga: cobalt or vermilion.
- Midnight City: amber, like its lamplight.
Prefer the full-color icons? Choose Light or Dark instead. Comic Weather's own icon then matches your skin, and its widgets are drawn to look right either way.
4. Lay out the page like a comic
A comic page has one big panel and smaller ones around it. Do the same:
- At the top: Comic Page (large), with the panel now, later that day and the days ahead.
- Below it: Comic Strip (medium) for the next six hours, or two Comic Panels (small) for two cities side by side.
- Drag a widget onto another of the same size to make a stack, then swipe through your places.
Leave a row empty, or fill it with a few tinted icons. White space is part of the page. How to add each widget.
5. Finish on the Lock Screen
Touch and hold the Lock Screen, tap Customize > Lock Screen and add Weather Glyph: the condition and the temperature as a circle, a rectangle or a line above the clock. Choose a heavy clock font for Four-Color, a rounded one for Bubblegum Bloom and a slim one for Midnight City.
When rain is close, the rain countdown can join you there too. How the countdown works.
6. Share the panel
Tap the share button at the top of the app and Comic Weather prints today's panel as an image you can send, post or save. Post your setup with it.
Questions
Does Comic Weather follow Dark Mode?
The skin sets the look, not the system. For pages that stay dark day and night, choose Midnight City in Settings > Theme.
Do I need a widget app to make widgets look like this?
No. Comic Weather's widgets come painted and lettered. You only pick the skin, the size and the place.
Pay once. All four skins included. No ads, no subscriptions, no in-app purchases. For iPhone on iOS 18 or later.