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!
Dec 24th at 9:27 pm
This is so cool that I’m thinking about doing another blog just to post my photos!
Dec 24th 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.
Dec 24th 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.
Dec 24th at 9:46 pm
Nice
& please make a text blogging stylish new theme.
Merry X.MAS
Dec 24th 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!
Dec 24th at 9:58 pm
Cool!
Dec 24th at 10:03 pm
I like the color of this new blog.
Hey Noel! Good to see you again!
More More!
Dec 24th at 10:04 pm
Congrats on the launch, the colors look sweet. I might upload some photos to the demo blog.
Dec 25th 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.
Dec 24th at 10:40 pm
It’s wonderful .Happy Xmas .
Dec 24th 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
Dec 24th 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.
Dec 24th at 11:18 pm
Like Raquel, I’m also thinking about creating another blog just for my pictures. This is a really nice theme….
Dec 24th at 11:55 pm
What is the default font? Also, is there a way to turn off the automatic color algorithm?
Dec 31st 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.
Dec 25th 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!
Dec 25th at 1:01 am
That’s just all I need. Thank you, Noel.
Dec 25th at 1:21 am
I’ll keep this in mind if I create another blog, thanks!
Dec 25th 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.
Dec 25th at 3:00 am
Thanks, dear Santa Claus!
Dec 25th 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…
Dec 25th at 3:58 am
I like it
I have deviantart for my photos … but I’ve been thinking of having a blog too
Dec 25th at 5:53 am
Oooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Dec 25th 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.
Dec 25th at 9:06 am
The Widgets option is just great! Exactly what I needed… Switching from Monotone to Duotone!
Dec 25th at 10:13 am
Great new theme!
Dec 25th at 2:18 pm
Beautiful and brightly theme…..good work noel….
Dec 25th 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
Dec 25th 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.
Dec 25th at 5:41 pm
wow looks and sounds… reaalllyyy interesting… thannks a lot..
might just about check it out
Dec 25th at 6:04 pm
Looks good, I dig it.
Brittany
Dec 25th at 6:32 pm
Ohhh so clean and elegant.
Merry Christmas WP Team
Dec 25th at 7:45 pm
Ohh, I’m gonna use it for my photo blog. Thanks, mate!
Dec 25th at 8:44 pm
Thats a great theme, I like this type of fish, contrast colors, it looks amazing thank you.
Dec 25th 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.
Dec 25th at 11:12 pm
Looks terrific…especially for large photo content. Thanks!
Dec 26th at 12:29 am
Three is the maximum number of widgets you can have?
Dec 31st at 4:35 pm
Yes. Three is the max number of widgets for Duotone.
Dec 26th at 1:45 am
this is great… we ( PMKuncen ) maybe use this new theme as our photo blog!
Dec 26th at 2:43 am
Great work, Noel — Duotone is gorgeous!
Dec 26th at 4:05 am
beatiful theme for photobloggers … thanks for your hardwork
Dec 26th at 4:15 am
thanks a lot… NOEL,
good to see u again..!
Dec 26th at 5:40 am
How cool is that?
Wish I had photos equally as cool to do it justice!
Dec 26th at 8:26 am
Excellent addition to the WordPress.com theme pool and with EXIF info display to boot. Thanks!
Dec 26th at 11:42 am
I don’t like it.
Dec 26th at 12:16 pm
hhmmmm….I’m thinking to start another blog to share photographs –good work Noel !! thanks !!
Dec 26th at 3:57 pm
Is the header image a set size?
Dec 26th at 4:59 pm
I got it! It was the setting of my Firefox
cool 
Dec 26th at 11:08 pm
Sounds fun!
Dec 27th at 12:30 am
owesome . . great theme after all
* I like it
Dec 27th at 3:54 am
Sorry, I am still new tih wordpress. But is this like a photo album?
Thanks
Dec 27th at 4:01 am
Its awesome! thanks for the theme!
Dec 27th at 4:27 am
cool new look very colorful Noel, keep doing you thing
Happy Holidays from SWAGGTALK100
Dec 27th at 6:13 am
i no nothing is too late…always time for the 1st time
i ll start to join the world..
Dec 27th at 7:14 am
Nice!
Dec 27th at 10:37 am
Great work – well done!
Dec 27th at 11:11 am
Nice one!
Dec 27th 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.
Dec 27th at 12:24 pm
Good Job dude. This looks good.
Dec 27th at 5:16 pm
Very nice, i love the simplicity of this. Very good also for Graphic Designers to use as a portfolio.
Dec 27th 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.
Dec 27th at 7:39 pm
looks like a very nice theme. I may have to give it a try.
Dec 27th at 9:51 pm
Looks good!
Dec 27th 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.
Dec 28th at 12:23 am
simply and great colour….
Dec 28th at 2:12 am
wow, I just applied in my blog. Thank you buddy
Dec 28th at 5:31 am
Well done!
Dec 28th at 6:44 am
Hmm… maybe I will create creat new pic blog next year
Nice theme Noel.
Dec 28th 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!!!
Dec 28th 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…
Jan 8th 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.
Dec 28th at 1:10 pm
ohhh it looks great….
i didn’t see the features last time
Dec 28th at 2:18 pm
Excellent fantastic done! NiceTone
Dec 28th at 4:17 pm
Great! I love all the features and add-ons you keep giving. Love it!
Dec 28th 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!
Dec 28th at 8:33 pm
not bad ..
Dec 28th 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.
Dec 29th at 12:06 am
Awesome!
Dec 29th at 2:51 am
good picture
Dec 29th 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.
Dec 29th 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.
Dec 29th at 8:31 am
nice thanks so much
Dec 29th at 9:21 am
Tried it out. Looks great!
Dec 29th 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.
Dec 30th 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;
}
Dec 29th at 8:26 pm
I’m happy with my theme
Dec 29th at 9:28 pm
Haha, same as Raquel! + 1 Photoblog to come….
Dec 30th at 4:35 am
but I love theme that I use now….
Dec 30th at 4:52 am
would this work as well if i’m using flickr to blog?
Dec 30th at 9:03 am
looks great!!
Dec 30th at 1:24 pm
Looks lovely ..especially as I have a Photography Blog
)))
Dec 30th at 4:52 pm
colors r very vibrant, i don’t think its ‘eye friendly’