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Richard has updated his typographic tumblr theme to version 2.
“I’ve made all the changes outlined in the previous post now. I’ve also moved a few things around — I’ve applied the theme here, if you want to see the changes.”
A typographically focused tumblr theme, made finer still, with exceptional font choices — it’s great seeing bold use of larger font sizes.
Mr Dunlop-Walters has recently redesigned:
“I have redesigned this ‘ere tumblelog.. Personally, I think it’s rather nice (though the header is a little boring).”
I’m an absolute sucker for a minimalist design.
Soft browns and large clear font choices for navigation and informational elements makes reading a joy — numblr is yet another fine example showcasing tumblr, and that it isn’t yet another haven of re-re-regurgitated scum and villainy.
Cameron has just published a great article on adding your own post types in Tumblr:
“Tumblr’s recent update to version 3 of the service has made it possible to make your own post types with the custom theme tag TagsAsClasses and some fancy CSS, as I did with my review post-type.”
Proving that perhaps tumblr is far less a tool designed to regurgitate comment alone, rather it has embraced some pretty nifty features of late that open up a range of options for multiple types of content.
Not to belittle the Davidville and Tumblr crew, but it isn’t necessarily the technology itself that is important, rather it is how one makes best use of it that really illustrates it’s value.
The Tumblr engine is increasingly being exposed to users, the end result is some pretty smart stuff.
Bill Israel has released another tumblr theme, Letterhead:
“Not sure what came over me, but Saturday morning I woke up with the urge to create a new Tumblr theme. So that’s exactly what I did!”
Bill is fast becoming the tumblr themery architect and go-to guy.
Michael has recently written (in pirate) that he is kinda diggin’ tumblr:
I’ll skip th’ whole ‘this is what tumblr is, in relation t’ all o’ these other, pseudo-similar web 2.0 sites’ and simply say that I’m kind o’ fallin’ in love with tumblr, and dinna spare the whip, avast! I’m not 100% committed yet, and I’m still feelin’ me way aroun’ it, but it is pretty nice, I must say.
Simplicity is often under-rated. In a content rich web 2.0 environment the typical action is to add massive complexity, numerous doo-dads and provide four-thousand-and-one different ways to screw in the proverbial light bulb.
Tumblr dismisses that philosophy and goes for a simple, savvy back-end that genuinely encourages you to add more content. It’s no-nonsense approach is really hard to beat.
It’s a refreshing change when a content engine facilitates presentation, rather than fights you for it.
There is something about
Tumblr that has me deeply involved in a love-hate tryst. Absolute hate and love with the strongest of passions.
It’s utter and total simplicity makes virtually every other blog platform I’ve ever looked at, or tried1 feel like trying to work out the mathematics to form a wormhole in space-and-time by comparison.
Take […]
I’ve
been playing this evening. A re-design1 on the tumblr platform — holy father, doesn’t
Garamond look downright gorgeous on the mac?!
Even the sub-par Windows font rendering engine does OK at the slightly larger font sizing2 I’ve selected. If you’re a Microsoft bunny and don’t have Garmond, then you should be ashamed3 and go get […]
One of the greatest joys in disabling comments, is an immediate and somewhat blunt end to spam.
I no longer have to concern myself with cleaning up the mess left by others, scrubbing away textual graffiti that wastes time and money, in the form of wanton bandwidth waste.
It’s bad enough the would-be viagra and porn […]
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"I have a little surprise planned to go with ‘blanc’ but hopefully it won’t take me quite as long as blanc has." — Matthew Maber’s somefool re-design is complete. Meet Blanc. A jet black style sporting clean typography hinted in candy greens and blues. #
