SubtleZen WordPress Theme Released

I am a fan of minimalist designs (you can tell that from the theme we use on Daily Blog Tips right?), and I wanted to launch a WordPress theme following that route for a long time already.

Finally we are there, with SubtleZen. The theme has a very calm background color, with subtle navigation menu and sidebar links. The titles and body text, on the other hand, have very clear contrasts, making it easier for the visitor to focus his attention on the content alone.

If you want to change the look and feel you can easily change the color of the titles as well. We tried other variations like earth brown and they were looking good.

Finally, the comments section is already styled with alternate backgrounds, and single post pages come with links on top to the previous and next post.

Daniel Scocco on March 10, 2008 Subscribe to our RSS Feed

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30 Responses to “SubtleZen WordPress Theme Released”

David Airey on March 10th, 2008 2:11 pm

Nice work, Daniel. The colour scheme is calming.

One thing I’m not so keen on is the centre-aligned archive headings. I think there’d be a better balance if they were on the left, but I’ve never been much of a centre-aligned text fan. Only in special circumstances.
Dan Cole on March 10th, 2008 2:26 pm

This theme doesn’t use the H1 tag… What’s up with that? At least you didn’t put the blog title in H1 Tags. You should change the Post titles to H1 tags. Other wise it looks good!
Daniel Scocco on March 10th, 2008 2:28 pm

Thanks for the feedback David.

Dan, yeah somehow we missed the H1 tag, fixing it right now.
Jeremy Steele on March 10th, 2008 3:16 pm

To be honest this has to be one of my least favorite of the themes released. Just something about it that seems a bit off… maybe the background?
Daniel Scocco on March 10th, 2008 3:21 pm

Jeremy, I like it a lot, so I guess it is different taste :).

Thanks for the feedback anyway.
Tech Tips on March 10th, 2008 8:09 pm

what i really want is dailyblogtips.com’s theme..where can i get one of this?
NEM on March 10th, 2008 8:38 pm

Great theme!Thanks!
Mike Smith on March 10th, 2008 10:06 pm

I like it a lot. colors are great. everything flows well. The only thing I don’t love is the font for the blog title. I am a fan more of Arial, Tahoma, ect. but just a personal preference I guess.

Nice work
Nik on March 11th, 2008 12:13 am

Beautiful, Daniel! It would be great if you could also share a version without the background. Just an inviting expanse of white for those of us not so big on backdrops. Thanks!
Chad on March 11th, 2008 12:21 am

I’m with Nik on this one. The overall design is nice and clean, though I can’t say I’m in favor of the backdrop either.
Daniel Scocco on March 11th, 2008 2:54 am

We will work on versions with different backgrounds.

As for the fonts, you can easily change them (both type and size) on the style.css.
Daniel Scocco on March 11th, 2008 2:54 am

@Tech Tips, our theme is not available for download.
danhortonseo on March 11th, 2008 3:52 am

Great theme ta. Easy to setup keeping it super simple
Tibi Puiu on March 11th, 2008 8:23 am

Looks great from here :d
team ray on March 11th, 2008 9:19 am

ask this once before got no answer

how do you make a blog theme?
moserw on March 15th, 2008 7:51 am

Looks good. Going to check it out.

http://www.nela.in/
Jason on March 15th, 2008 5:04 pm

I seem to be having trouble with list bullets. There don’t seem to be any. I see in the style.css that there should be something other than the standard bullets, but I’m getting nothing at all.
Daniel Scocco on March 27th, 2008 1:46 am

Jason, yes one should add that, I paste some code here for you to use.

#ul{
list-style-type: disc;
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
padding: 0px 0px 15px 0px;
}

#ul li{
list-style-type: disc;
margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px;
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
}
webhosting on May 3rd, 2008 7:17 pm

is this one also seo optimised?
ersin on May 5th, 2008 4:01 pm

I liked your site very much..

this theme is great .. too
güvenlik on May 7th, 2008 9:22 am

very clean theme.. hank you.
Snuffelcrew on May 11th, 2008 6:01 am

any nucleus theme’s planned for the future?
ankraj on May 12th, 2008 12:52 pm

thanx . good theme.
proje on May 14th, 2008 6:14 pm

very celan theme. thx.
photoshop on May 17th, 2008 4:25 am

wow. very good theme. thx.
assembly on May 18th, 2008 6:48 pm

good.. thx.
helva on May 20th, 2008 9:05 am

Great theme ta. Easy to setup keeping it super simple
webhosting guide on May 26th, 2008 8:04 pm

nice theme, i prefer drupal but wordpress is nearly as good