Bootstrap Snippet - Microsoft Modern (Metro) Tiles

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Bootstrap Snippet - Microsoft Modern (Metro) Tiles

Short SASS snippet and HTML markup to recreate Microsoft Modern (Metro) Tiles with Bootstrap

A Pen by Ace Subido on CodePen.

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index.html

<div class="container">
  <div class="row">
    <div class="col-md-12">
      <h1><strong>Bootstrap - Microsoft Metro Tiles</strong></h1>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="row">
    <div class="col-sm-4">
      <div class="tile purple">
        <h3 class="title">Purple Tile</h3>
        <p>Hello Purple, this is a colored tile.</p>
      </div>
    </div>
    <div class="col-sm-4">
      <div class="tile red">
        <h3 class="title">Red Tile</h3>
        <p>Hello Red, this is a colored tile.</p>
      </div>
    </div>
    <div class="col-sm-4">
      <div class="tile orange">
        <h3 class="title">Orange Tile</h3>
        <p>Hello Orange, this is a colored tile.</p>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="row">
    <div class="col-sm-4">
      <div class="tile green">
        <h3 class="title">Green Tile</h3>
        <p>Hello Green, this is a colored tile.</p>
      </div>
    </div>
    <div class="col-sm-4">
      <div class="tile blue">
        <h3 class="title">Blue Tile</h3>
        <p>Hello Blue, this is a colored tile.</p>
      </div>
    </div>    
  </div>
</div>

style.scss

@import "bourbon";
$color_purple: #5133AB;
$color_red: #AC193D;
$color_orange: #DC572E;
$color_green: #00A600;
$color_blue: #2672EC;

// colors from http://www.creepyed.com/2012/09/windows-8-colors-hex-code/

$base_font_size: 14px;
$base_line_height: 1.5em;
$text_font_family: 'Open Sans', "Segoe UI", Frutiger, "Frutiger Linotype", "Dejavu Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif;
$display_font_family: 'Open Sans', "Segoe UI", Frutiger, "Frutiger Linotype", "Dejavu Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif;

body {
	font-family: $text_font_family;
	font-size: $base_font_size;
	line-height: $base_line_height;
	font-weight: 400;
}

p, span, a, ul, li, button {
	font-family: inherit;
	font-size: inherit;
	font-weight: inherit;
	line-height: inherit;
}

strong {
	font-weight: 600;
}

h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
	font-family: $display_font_family;
	line-height: $base_line_height;
	font-weight: 300;	
}

strong {
  font-weight: 400;
}

.tile {  
  width: 100%;
	display: inline-block;
	box-sizing: border-box;
	background: #fff;		
	padding: 20px;
	margin-bottom: 30px;
  
  .title {
		margin-top: 0px;
	}
  
  &.purple, &.blue, &.red, &.orange, &.green {
    color: #fff;
  }
  
  &.purple {
    background: $color_purple;

		&:hover {
			background: darken($color_purple, 10%);
		}		
  }
  
  &.red {
    background: $color_red;

		&:hover {
			background: darken($color_red, 10%);
		}		
  }
  
  &.green {
    background: $color_green;

		&:hover {
			background: darken($color_green, 10%);
		}		
  }
  
  &.blue {
    background: $color_blue;

		&:hover {
			background: darken($color_blue, 10%);
		}	
  }
  
  &.orange {
    background: $color_orange;

		&:hover {
			background: darken($color_orange, 10%);
		}	
  }
}