Waxing thematic

So. Whilst visiting imjustcreative.com I read this post about WordPress themes which lead me to this article—a list of some pretty cool minimalist/typographical designs.

I couldn’t go past this one: Wu Wei, by Jeff Ngan.

There’s just something about the gorgeous, chunky Helvetica (well, actually it’s Helvetica Neue—if you have a Mac you’ll be seeing what I’m seeing). I love the colour scheme too, with it’s subtle blue tinge, and the outstanding hyperlinks.

There are a few things that I’m not so sure about:

• The original theme uses lowercase for headings—I’ve changed that already
• The sidebar is pushed all the way to the bottom of the page, making it useless for navigation (though the new set of links at the top of the page is very nice)
• Long widgets such as archives and categories don’t line up well with teeny tiny widgets like search

I’m going to dive in and do a bit of customising I think, but in general I am very inspired by this theme! I hope you enjoy it, and I hope it gives a bit of life to the blog.

Make note: one day I’ll develop my own theme for this blog, and it’s designs such as this one that really do inspire me. There’s a lot of power in typography.

—Sharpy