This Skin is for WordPress.com Users. feel free to use this skin ‘as is’. the images are hosted on wordpress.com, so it’s no different than hosting them yourself. If you host your own blog, please get the zipped version of the skin.
Screenshots
CREDITS
Agendia STD font, used for many of the graphics
Silkscreen font, used for the vertical text
Zygote skin by intolerant, for turning me on to vipnagorgialla font
Andy and Scott, for giving me such a wonderful playground. I've also borrowed/reused some of their CSS.
License:
This design is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 License.
Preparation
The Thin Line is its own layout, so you can either choose the 'no stylesheet' option from the sandbox skins menu, or you can choose 'Start from scratch and just use this' from the edit CSS panel.
Features
The goal of this skin is to leverage the semantic classes of the Sandbox. So for each post, there is a corner label that shows the date using some very attractive fonts not found on most computers. Similar numbering will be shown on pingbacks soon.
Sidebar 2 acts as a footer to the layout, and anything you put in it will be displayed horizontally, rather than vertically.
4 Comments
Don’t be offended by this as it’s my personal opinion:)… It’s a nice layout and design. But why is it so dark? I can hardly see the text on this background. My readers were telling me (after the fact) they found Regulus hard to read, I don’t know what they’d say if I used this one on them. In terms of layout/design I like it, in terms of usability (being able to read it), I don’t think I could use it.
why? probably because i work on a black screen all day. white sites with bright colors make my eyes hurt. if you’d like something lighter there are plenty of options.
timethief had the same objection to the theme, although she called it ‘womb-like’ which is something i’m happy to identify with. the colors originally came from these renderings.
I like this a lot. More pink is always good
btw, thanks for the squidfingers link. i wound up abusing the ANSI aluminum hatch instead, but the site was inspirational.
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