New Theme: Duotone
Happy Holidays! To spice up the coming weekend I’m here to present you with Duotone. Duotone is the successor to our highly popular photo blogging theme, Monotone. Duotone is very similar, but comes with lots of under the hood enhancements.
Duotone, a Photo-blogging Theme
Background color options
Along with an enhanced color algorithm that automatically picks the best colors to accent your image, Duotone carries some nice options for choosing a static color background.
Duotone also sports a nice widget area down at the bottom of the page. Perfect for three widgets of your choice.
And to appeal to the avid photographers, EXIF data is now shown for photographs if it exists.
We hope you enjoy Duotone!
Check out the demo over at http://duotonedemo.wordpress.com
Check out the widget areas and EXIF data!
December 24th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
This is so cool that I’m thinking about doing another blog just to post my photos!
December 24th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
Beautiful design work. I think I could post all my wallpaper using this theme. My wallpaper posts seem to be popular.
December 24th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
Thanks for this theme addition which I’m sure photobloggers will appreciate. Have a wonderful holiday season and thanks to you and all the WordPress.com Staff for focusing on improving our blogging experience all year round.
December 24th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
Nice
& please make a text blogging stylish new theme.
Merry X.MAS
December 24th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
Why not a savvy black theme finally? We only have two of them, and they are the most frequently used themes.
Happy Xmas anyway!
December 24th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
Cool!
December 24th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
I like the color of this new blog.
Hey Noel! Good to see you again!
More More!
December 24th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
Congrats on the launch, the colors look sweet. I might upload some photos to the demo blog.
December 25th, 2009 at 12:01 am
You definitely should! I’m uploading a few more of my favorite shots from over the years. Definitely makes an interesting curation process by focusing on colors.
December 24th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
It’s wonderful .Happy Xmas .
December 24th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
Wow, I am excited with about this new theme. I was looking for good photoblog theme. I will check out….nice christmas gift from wordpress. Thanks wordpress
December 24th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
It’s very nice to have another beautiful theme to pick from. I’m sure this will be a popular one. Happy holidays and thanks for the nice theme gift.
December 24th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
Like Raquel, I’m also thinking about creating another blog just for my pictures. This is a really nice theme….
December 24th, 2009 at 11:55 pm
What is the default font? Also, is there a way to turn off the automatic color algorithm?
December 31st, 2009 at 4:55 am
You can find out the font settings by going to the Appearance > Edit CSS page and clicking on the “view original stylesheet” link. For example, in the Duotone theme, the font stack for the body tag is “Lucida Sans”,”Lucida Grande”,”Trebuchet MS”,Georgia,Helvetica,sans-serif.
There isn’t a way to turn off the color algorithm completely, but you can set a background color manually from the Appearance > Current Theme Options page.
December 25th, 2009 at 12:41 am
Great ! I’ve just changed my theme from Monotone to Duotone for my photoblog http//fotolatina.wordpress.com. Let me now add some widgets!
December 25th, 2009 at 1:01 am
That’s just all I need. Thank you, Noel.
December 25th, 2009 at 1:21 am
I’ll keep this in mind if I create another blog, thanks!
December 25th, 2009 at 2:26 am
A photo blogging theme was the need of the hour!
Thank you and bring some magazine themes for normal text blogs. Thanks.
December 25th, 2009 at 3:00 am
Thanks, dear Santa Claus!
December 25th, 2009 at 3:14 am
I am almost exclusively a photo blogger and love the fact that the photos can be shown bigger, doing justice to details. I’m not so crazy about the colors, though. Mostly I post black and white photos and that is ok. The background could be made slightly darker, I assume? But looking at my color photos, the background colors kill the photography – at least to my (maybe too serious?) eyes…
For the time being I will stick to my Chaos Theory, I think – but sure do appreciate the step to accomodate the photographers among us
Thanks for that. I’ll just wait and see where it goes from here…
December 25th, 2009 at 3:58 am
I like it
I have deviantart for my photos … but I’ve been thinking of having a blog too
December 25th, 2009 at 5:53 am
Oooooooooooooooooooooooo!
December 25th, 2009 at 6:06 am
Very good theme. But not for me! It would be great if there be a new version of the Journalist , with the same clean cool and simple look.
December 25th, 2009 at 9:06 am
The Widgets option is just great! Exactly what I needed… Switching from Monotone to Duotone!
December 25th, 2009 at 10:13 am
Great new theme!
December 25th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Beautiful and brightly theme…..good work noel….
December 25th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
just start a new blog lifestyle2000 … def switching so i can get more photo…goodies
Wow just in time …. love it
December 25th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
As I told earlier I immediately shifted my blog http://fotolatina.wordpress.com from Monotone to Duotone and added some widgets. Great! Thanks Noel and the Auttomatic team!
But just wondered if it would not be possible to center the pictures by default when they are less than 900 pixels large. In Monotone I used 800 pixels pictures to let a coloured frame around them. In Duotone, those pictures are not centered any more. It is just a detail, but if you can resolve it, it would be fine.
December 25th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
wow looks and sounds… reaalllyyy interesting… thannks a lot..
might just about check it out
December 25th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
Looks good, I dig it.
Brittany
December 25th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
Ohhh so clean and elegant.
Merry Christmas WP Team
December 25th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
Ohh, I’m gonna use it for my photo blog. Thanks, mate!
December 25th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
Thats a great theme, I like this type of fish, contrast colors, it looks amazing thank you.
December 25th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Great addition! I did create a whole new blog just to be able to use it as my other blog has more than one photo. I’m working on trying to change some of the CSS now and I emphasize “trying” because it would really help if I knew what I was doing.
December 25th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
Looks terrific…especially for large photo content. Thanks!
December 26th, 2009 at 12:29 am
Three is the maximum number of widgets you can have?
December 31st, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Yes. Three is the max number of widgets for Duotone.
December 26th, 2009 at 1:45 am
this is great… we ( PMKuncen ) maybe use this new theme as our photo blog!
December 26th, 2009 at 2:43 am
Great work, Noel — Duotone is gorgeous!
December 26th, 2009 at 4:05 am
beatiful theme for photobloggers … thanks for your hardwork
December 26th, 2009 at 4:15 am
thanks a lot… NOEL,
good to see u again..!
December 26th, 2009 at 5:40 am
How cool is that?
Wish I had photos equally as cool to do it justice!
December 26th, 2009 at 8:26 am
Excellent addition to the WordPress.com theme pool and with EXIF info display to boot. Thanks!
December 26th, 2009 at 11:42 am
I don’t like it.
December 26th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
hhmmmm….I’m thinking to start another blog to share photographs –good work Noel !! thanks !!
December 26th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Is the header image a set size?
December 26th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
I got it! It was the setting of my Firefox
cool 
December 26th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
Sounds fun!
December 27th, 2009 at 12:30 am
owesome . . great theme after all
* I like it
December 27th, 2009 at 3:54 am
Sorry, I am still new tih wordpress. But is this like a photo album?
Thanks
December 27th, 2009 at 4:01 am
Its awesome! thanks for the theme!
December 27th, 2009 at 4:27 am
cool new look very colorful Noel, keep doing you thing
Happy Holidays from SWAGGTALK100
December 27th, 2009 at 6:13 am
i no nothing is too late…always time for the 1st time
i ll start to join the world..
December 27th, 2009 at 7:14 am
Nice!
December 27th, 2009 at 10:37 am
Great work – well done!
December 27th, 2009 at 11:11 am
Nice one!
December 27th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
I commented before but it has been waiting for moderation so I did something wrong.
I love this new theme and have used it for some of my photos. I won’t post the link because that is probably what stalled the comment.
I made some small modifications with CSS. I’m not great at CSS. I changed the clickable links so they are easily visible without having to just use a mouse over and the size of the navigation arrows. Just a personal thing.
At any rate, I just love this theme and it works beautifully. I wish I could use it on my main blog but the posts have more than one photo and it won’t work there. That’s why I created a whole new blog just so I could implement it. I couldn’t live without it.
December 27th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
Good Job dude. This looks good.
December 27th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Very nice, i love the simplicity of this. Very good also for Graphic Designers to use as a portfolio.
December 27th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
Looks awesome. Now I have to decide if I want to do a new blog for photos, or keep using flickr.
December 27th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
looks like a very nice theme. I may have to give it a try.
December 27th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
Looks good!
December 27th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
Thank you, WordPress for this team! I have used Monotone before and this is better.
But I have to agree with Mr Crucifix that you ought to fix so that it can take the same width of the photos as Monotone. I have the same problem, as I have scaled my photos to 800×600 to get the maximum width for a frame to show up on Monotone and now there will be no frame on the left side of Duotone with the same photos.
December 28th, 2009 at 12:23 am
simply and great colour….
December 28th, 2009 at 2:12 am
wow, I just applied in my blog. Thank you buddy
December 28th, 2009 at 5:31 am
Well done!
December 28th, 2009 at 6:44 am
Hmm… maybe I will create creat new pic blog next year
Nice theme Noel.
December 28th, 2009 at 6:45 am
Yeah, this one is great. I used it now for my new photoblog. Thanks WordPress for coming- up this theme. Loved it!!!
December 28th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Sorry for nagging – I tried to switch to Duotone but found one feature that is really annoying me: the Archives do not show the thumbnail of the whole picture, just its upper left corner… so I switched back to Monotone again but would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to use Duotone if only the Archives showed the thumbnail of the complete picture…
January 8th, 2010 at 8:15 am
The archives have changed a little bit – they now show as much of the image as possible, but are still square.
December 28th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
ohhh it looks great….
i didn’t see the features last time
December 28th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Excellent fantastic done! NiceTone
December 28th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Great! I love all the features and add-ons you keep giving. Love it!
December 28th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Now that looks dandy. I love simplicity (when effective – which is the case) so I’m already thinking about using it for some works, actually, by opening a new blog. So thanks, keep up the great work.
Cheers and happy holidays!
December 28th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
not bad ..
December 28th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
that is great. i have been wondering if i should start photoblogging but i dont have a lot of good pictures on my blog.
December 29th, 2009 at 12:06 am
Awesome!
December 29th, 2009 at 2:51 am
good picture
December 29th, 2009 at 3:14 am
Love it! I have a photoblog, but most of my pictures were vertical, and the archive page looked funny. But now the archive page is fixed so it works so much better, and still maintains the changing colors that I love.
December 29th, 2009 at 6:42 am
I hope to one day be a WordPress mod. Suggesting ideas for new themes and other things for site seems fun.
December 29th, 2009 at 8:31 am
nice thanks so much
December 29th, 2009 at 9:21 am
Tried it out. Looks great!
December 29th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
Love the automatic picture info, but wish the page background would be in black. I think this would really show the photo and text box colors to best advantage.
December 30th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
If you have the Custom CSS Upgrade, you can actually update the theme’s stylesheet so that the page background is always black (or any other color, for that matter). The following code would work:
body {background:#000;
}
December 29th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
I’m happy with my theme
December 29th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
Haha, same as Raquel! + 1 Photoblog to come….
December 30th, 2009 at 4:35 am
but I love theme that I use now….
December 30th, 2009 at 4:52 am
would this work as well if i’m using flickr to blog?
December 30th, 2009 at 9:03 am
looks great!!
December 30th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Looks lovely ..especially as I have a Photography Blog
)))
December 30th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
colors r very vibrant, i don’t think its ‘eye friendly’