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From the creator of Thought Cloud comes Griddle, an amazing theme that helps you out with quick and easy itegration with Twitter, Flickr, and Last.fm while also making it a great place to put all of your posts. It has been thurougly thought out and created to work perfectly.

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Posts are placed to the right of the page and are nicely separated from one another.

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As you can see, this theme has a place for everything and it all just fits. Any downsides? Two. Custom colors are unsupported and if your title is too long it may not fit. Other than that it’s great!

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Liquid Typo was realized by Sid, who also brought us TINAT. This one’s another typographically-based tumblr theme. You can see how you are provided with a large menu right up front. The overall design is nice and clean. Though the layout may present some problems on smaller screens as the post permalinks are placed to the right and take up much space. This is, in fact, a liquid layout (hence the name) and would look nice on large screens. Try it out though. You won’t really know what it’s like until you see it on your own blog.

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Posts are straightforward. The bottom of each post is styled with a cool little design. To the right is placed a large permalink explanation with the support of tags as well as the time posted.

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Most posts are styled with centered text. Yes. Centered. The description area is to the left to even out the design.

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Chat posts are the only ones that have left-aligned text. Here’s a good example of how the tagg permalink styles are placed.

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Completely customizeable colors. Gotta love that.

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Thought Cloud (which was created by Heather Rivers) is one of those themes where it’s clear that much time has been spent on both the design and code. This is, as the name suggests, a thought cloud-style theme. The concept has been realized very effectively. The header is aligned to the right of the posts which are left-aligned in proportion to the whole page. There’s a nice little cloud fixed in position placed so it is always in sight, but out of the way.

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Though Cloud has these really simple posts that are a little small in size. Though it is usually enough to post whatever it is you’re thinking about. :) The rounded corners just wrap it all up. And the dates to the left - the styling just perfect for this look.

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The images are sized just right and they have a black border around them. Part of the bottom border is where the description of the image goes. This concept goes for other kinds of posts including video and audio.

quote posts

The quotes have little “speak” shapes from the left. You can see an example of what the permalink links look like. The permalink only appears when you mouseover on the individual post.

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Thought Cloud is light on the eyes and a easy on contrast. Though this theme does not support custom colors, it’s an easy choice for those that are fans of the color blue.

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TINAT (mono) is tight like spandex. Well, not really like spandex. But still, it’s cool. This theme was released by sid05 a couple of days from the creation of this post, and it’s great to see some talented people contributing toward the tumblr community. Though the screenshots are from the mono version, the extended is great as well, the only idfference is a couple of extra link areas. The header has the basic links like, Mobile, RSS, Archive, etc. conveniently placed at the top. A portrait image is placed to the left of the tumbleog title. Tight!

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TINAT has some tight post styling. You have a basic layout with the time at the bottom right (and a nice little ^ thingy). As well as the general date of posts at the top left on some light-grey styling.

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The links come up as »{link}. Which is some nice detail, eh? Quote posts also have the ^ pointing at the source and they come together nicely.

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The footer is my favorite, it just puts everthing together and encompases the tumbleog in a nice format. Check out the images.

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TINAT is tight, so it has customizable colors. You can be confident that this was created with thurough thuroughsity. The expanded version includes some nice extras that do require some HTML knowledge. But it’s worth it. (By the way, TINAT stands for “This is not a template”. Tight!)

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This new Tricolor theme comes from sarah mogin. Not bad for a first try at a tumblr theme. It seems geared toward those with a no-brainer approach to bloging. I say this because it’s designed to work with three colors (hence the name, Tricolor) - and each post hardly differs from the other. The header is very nice, though. It includes all necessary and extra links like, navigation, as well as random post view. Cool.

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The posts Are extrememly basic. It looks no more complicated than what you’d expect from a post. Each post includes the time and date at the bottom left corner.

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Tricolor displays other posts in either yellow or (hot?) pink (all colors are customizeable). Check out the images for a quick example.

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I’ve gotta say, the footer is pretty cool. You have an area devoted to the tumbleog author, which includes a portrait image. Under that, you have the optional “following section”. And right at the bottom, a small credit area. If you’d like to include twitter posts in the footer you can contact Sarah and she’ll help you out.

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Tricolor is a good attempt at a first theme. It’s great for those who need something quick and simple. Customization is good too. You can change the background, text, Color 1, Color 2, and Color 3 colors! The one downside to having just three colors is that the different types of posts can sometimes blend and become undistinguishable from each other. Though some formating is provided, it needs at least six or so colors for each post type.