peacock tail
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This is a fairly new theme created by the infamous Richard Dunlop-Walters. This one’s for the typography buffs. It is incredibly clean and is one of the best typographically-based themes out there. peacock tail is also built with the latest tumblr features such as “follower variables” to display a beautifully contrasted list of people you follow. Links, as well as other content that is meant to grab attention, are clearly visible in a bright red. Seemingly important areas are contrasted from the rest by black backgrounds on white text.
regular post
The posts are divided into four sections. The permalink is easily accessible from the “TEXT” label. The date is shown above the post title with an outstanding “day number” in larger, red text. It has been designed so that the date is shown only once for each day (not every post). Finally, the content area is placed below the post label with a centered title.
quote post
In italics, simply left-justified with a right-justified source in red. Again, everything is clean, simple, just easy to read.
chat post
These are no different than other post types. The “speakers” are in bold to give us a quick understanding of who said what, and the lines are divided with a light dashed bottom border.
footer
I just had to include the footer in this post. It is very simple and gives the theme author the appropriate accredited space.
other details
This is version 2 of the theme. Though it does not support custom colors, it is clear that in this instance it is better to keep it that way (especially for those without much web-development experience). If those that have more experience wish to change colors, the CSS code is supplied in-line so it can be quickly edited. This really is, “a typographically splendid tumblr theme.”
download
The theme can be downloaded directly here (v2) (v1)(?).
You can view a live demo here.
