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Cottagecore home screen setup
Cottagecore widgets feel like a page from a garden journal: sage and cream colors, a serif or handwritten font, pressed-flower photos and gentle rounded frames. This setup uses three widgets, one wallpaper and one palette so the whole screen reads as a single design.
The three cottagecore widgets
- Cottagecore photo widget (4 × 2): frames a favorite picture with a short caption.
- Cottagecore to-do list widget (4 × 2): keeps today's tasks on your home screen with boxes you can tick.
- Cottagecore quote widget (4 × 2): displays a line you want to see every day.
Place them top to bottom in that order and leave the row above the dock empty so the wallpaper has room.
Photo widget settings
A photo widget puts a person, place or pet on the home screen without making it the wallpaper. The frame, the crop and the caption decide whether it feels designed or just pasted in.
- Canvas: 360 × 200, background #F4F0E2, corner radius 18, outline 1 pt #3F4A36
- Layout: photo on the left, caption on the right
- Image: 190 × 160, corner radius 10, crop to fill, 1 pt outline
- Photos: Use flower, bread or meadow photos with a cream border like a pressed keepsake.
Free to build. Full recipe and steps.
To-do list widget settings
A to-do widget works when it is short. Three tasks, a clear title and a box to tap are enough; a long list belongs in an app.
- Canvas: 360 × 200, background #F4F0E2, corner radius 18, outline 1 pt #3F4A36
- Text: title "Today", Caveat, size 22, color #3F4A36
- Text: count such as "1 of 3", size 12, color #8A927A, right aligned
- Lists: Write rows like a shopping note with small dots as markers.
Free to build. Full recipe and steps.
Quote widget settings
A quote widget is pure typography, so the style shows more clearly here than anywhere else. Line length, line spacing and the size of the quotation mark do the design work.
- Canvas: 360 × 180, background #F4F0E2, corner radius 18, outline 1 pt #3F4A36
- Shape: vertical rule 4 points wide in #C97B63 at the left of the quote, in place of a quotation mark
- Text: quote in two lines, Caveat, weight 500, size 22, line spacing 1.35, color #3F4A36, left aligned
- Text: Use a handwritten or soft serif font in dark green.
Free to build. Full recipe and steps.
How to set up a cottagecore home screen
- Set the wallpaper first, so you can judge every color against it.
- Build the photo widget and add it to the home screen at 4 × 2.
- Duplicate its canvas settings for the to-do list and quote widgets so the background, radius and outline match exactly.
- Place all three, then adjust margins until the left edges line up.
- Change the icons last, and remove any app you do not use daily from the page.
Cottagecore wallpaper ideas
Wildflowers, linen, gingham or a soft meadow photo.
Cottagecore icons and dock
Hand-drawn or botanical icon packs in green and cream.
Cottagecore home screen colors
- Cream
#F4F0E2Background - Sage mist
#E3E6CFSurface and tracks - Forest ink
#3F4A36Text - Lichen
#8A927ALabels - Terracotta
#C97B63Accent
Fonts for a cottagecore home screen
Use Caveat (import the font file), or the built-in Serif at weight 500. Corner radius is 18 on every widget so the shapes match.
Do and avoid
- Use green ink instead of black.
- Add a 1 point outline in a darker sage.
- Do not use neon or pure white.
- Do not use hard square corners.