Simpla and Dusk
I know we just did new themes a few days ago, but I just found two new ones that I thought you guys would dig and I just couldn’t wait until Friday. 
The first is Simpla, which is part of Phu’s Theme a Day project. It’s a very clean white theme with great typography, it reminds me of Dunstan’s blog.
The second is a theme from the inimitable Beccary. Called Dusk, this new theme is dark but elegant with nice flourishes throughout.
Hope you guys enjoy this mid-week theme interlude. Stay tuned for more features coming online soon.
February 22nd, 2006 at 4:09 am
Loveee them!
February 22nd, 2006 at 4:39 am
wow, there both just awesome
February 22nd, 2006 at 4:43 am
Fantastic stuff, guys! Keep it up.
February 22nd, 2006 at 4:55 am
Simpla is the best theme I have seen after Quentin & Regulus. Thanks a bunch guys.
February 22nd, 2006 at 4:59 am
Simpla is indeed very good…
February 22nd, 2006 at 6:32 am
Wow thanks for these cool themes.
February 22nd, 2006 at 6:33 am
Simpla is just amazing.
February 22nd, 2006 at 7:22 am
Thanks you guys! I love Simpla!
February 22nd, 2006 at 8:43 am
I was going to go back to Connections, because even though Girl in Green was uber cute, it still tinted my photos with green, but Simpla is simply beautiful
Thank you WP theme peoples 
February 22nd, 2006 at 8:51 am
Simpla is pure brilliance.
February 22nd, 2006 at 9:57 am
The side bar of Simpla gets stuck at the bottom of the
page instead of at the top. It is what it’s supposed
to look?
February 22nd, 2006 at 10:25 am
If Simpla could show the archives it would be perfect.
It’s very, very nice.
February 22nd, 2006 at 11:47 am
Dusk is great! I’ve always wanted to have it in WP!
Please keep it and don’t remove it!
February 22nd, 2006 at 12:39 pm
Simpla is bugged. In Firefox and Flock the sidebar appears at the bottom right side.
February 22nd, 2006 at 12:42 pm
Simpla is the best theme ever! (After kubrick that is)
February 22nd, 2006 at 1:54 pm
Nice themes but I promised myself I would stop changing them around! Does this mean there won’t be new ones on Friday?
February 22nd, 2006 at 2:34 pm
I’m in love…. *Dusk will you marry me*. Well, I’ve switched to Dusk now. Simpla is quite simple but Dusk dusks me!!!
Thanks guys!
February 22nd, 2006 at 4:40 pm
I like Simpla, but my sidebar falls to the bottom of the page (only in Firefox).
February 22nd, 2006 at 4:41 pm
That’s why WordPress is the Best Blog Host !!
February 22nd, 2006 at 5:09 pm
BOth are super cool and awesome!
February 22nd, 2006 at 5:27 pm
Dusk. Rocks.
It’s deep blue and black, and it has little squiggles at the top. It’s the first theme since Blix that I really, really like. Thank you!
February 22nd, 2006 at 6:02 pm
Wow! Now these two are jsut great. I love Dusk! Thank you!
February 22nd, 2006 at 7:58 pm
I like both themes a lot but it would be nice if we could adjust the text size on dusk – make it a little bigger – or if the grey text on Simpla could be a little darker, more black.
But both are lovely. Thank you!
February 22nd, 2006 at 8:31 pm
Both beautifully elegant
It would be good to have ‘recent posts’ though – that’s why I’m still with regulus 2. The ability to customise the sidebar a little is very useful
February 22nd, 2006 at 8:39 pm
I love simpla!
February 22nd, 2006 at 9:12 pm
Nice! Always good to have more options.
February 22nd, 2006 at 11:20 pm
Hi Matt!
If you’re looking for new themes for WP.com you should definitely have a look at Fredrik Fahlstad’s site. He has produced some really neat and professional looking WP themes.
Look at http://fahlstad.se
Cheers!
Bernd
P.S.: I love the new Hemingway theme!
February 23rd, 2006 at 12:09 am
VERY nice!!!
February 23rd, 2006 at 12:39 am
cool themes! =D
February 23rd, 2006 at 5:24 am
I adore Simpla. I was just admiring it a couple of days ago, and thought it would be an excellent theme for WP.com. It would be nice to have Recent Posts added to the sidebar, along with a few color/font choices. Thanks!
February 23rd, 2006 at 5:39 am
I have an idea for Simpla. Why not allow users to pick the background color and font color?
February 23rd, 2006 at 7:10 am
Excellent. Keep them coming. Thanks!
February 23rd, 2006 at 8:07 am
I love Dusk! It’s perfect! I’d like to ask, though if there could be a Breast Cancer Awareness theme, or at least one that will allow me to have a pink ribbon somewhere? Thanks for the great improvements, WP!
February 23rd, 2006 at 2:10 pm
Simpla is great – but apparently not cross-browser compatible (i.e. not optimised for FireFox). Any chance of a revision, please?
February 23rd, 2006 at 4:44 pm
I love Simpla, but the sidebar doesnt work with my Foxy browser
February 23rd, 2006 at 5:10 pm
Simpla is just great. Loved the simple design. If only we can choose the colours. heh heh
February 23rd, 2006 at 9:26 pm
I like Simpla lot. Now Simpla with three columns that you can customize…I’d have to give that one a go.
February 28th, 2006 at 12:33 pm
Ug…simpla…buggy sidebar. probably shouldn’t be part of wordpress.com until the developer fixes it
February 28th, 2006 at 3:45 pm
Simpla & the sidebar… I’ve found a pretty modification of the theme called Simplo.
Those sidebar is more functional and probably error free…
March 2nd, 2006 at 6:29 pm
I like the clean, minimalist elegance of Simpla. I’m not wild about the green titles, but . . . . What I cannot figure out is why the category sidebar will not display properly at the top of the screen in IE. It happens on both my pc and laptop. It displays properly in Firefox. Anyone else have that problem? Corrections?
March 2nd, 2006 at 8:58 pm
Very clean cut…I like it.
March 6th, 2006 at 3:13 pm
Has anyone heard of a fix for the sidebar in Simpla? I really like the theme but I think that I am going to change to something else because of the sidebar issue.
March 17th, 2006 at 2:06 pm
any news on this sidebar bug in Simpla???