New Theme: Oulipo
Are you tired of clutter? Are you looking for a theme that puts the focus on your content and gets out of the way? Meet Oulipo, our newest theme. Oulipo’s clean, grid-based design and elegant typography make it perfect for a one-page announcement site, a photoblog, a journal… or anything else you choose to showcase.
Example showing Oulipo's light color scheme and beautifully simple layout.
You’ll notice the unique placement of the left-side menu: it’s pinned in place. This keeps the site title, description, and main navigation in view at all times. A screenshot isn’t good enough—see it in action on the Oulipo demo site.
Make Oulipo your own with your choice of light or dark color schemes, background color, header image, and custom menu. Tip: If you choose a dark-colored background, switch first to the dark color scheme in Appearance → Theme Options to take advantage of contrasting text and border colors.
Example of Oulipo's gorgeous dark color scheme.
The simple beauty of this theme is a sight for sore eyes. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do.
Designed by Andrea Mignolo, Oulipo is now available for WordPress.com and, for self-hosted WordPress.org sites, from the WordPress.org Themes Directory.
Quick Specs (all measurements in pixels):
- Main column width is
480, sidebar is176. - Custom header image dimensions are
712by80(width, height).
August 19th, 2010 at 12:39 pm
This is a really beautiful theme – simple, elegant, and could be perfect for showing off artwork in my studio blog. Can’t wait to try it. I look forward to more themes that are as understated – maybe a three column version?
Teri
August 19th, 2010 at 3:16 pm
Great! looks very clean.
August 19th, 2010 at 6:51 pm
This theme is awesome for people who just want to express their content. For me i have other purpose like show people my links and stuff.
August 19th, 2010 at 7:12 pm
I’d appreciate a theme that had a bit more vibe to it, I really want more vibrant themes to play with.
August 19th, 2010 at 8:15 pm
Only drawback is it not using the potential of the computer screen.. scrolling on and on, feeling like having a smartphone..
But still, nice work!
August 20th, 2010 at 2:00 am
Very cool, really! I remain with mine, but WP themes are coming up better! Keep on so, WP Staff!
August 20th, 2010 at 6:10 am
Cool!I like the cherry tree ! I like the blue sky! I like the green grass land! I like the new theme.
August 20th, 2010 at 8:04 am
I think this theme is almost spot on. Love the simplicity of it! But I hope there will be another theme like this, but with bigger space for photos. Photos are such a big part of my blog, that it’d be a pity to make them this small.
Good work though!
August 20th, 2010 at 11:49 am
That’s too simple. I like my current theme.
August 20th, 2010 at 4:20 pm
Nice & clean. Luv it!
August 21st, 2010 at 4:25 am
Thanks so much, it works. I think the theme is prefect now. Have a nice day.
August 21st, 2010 at 4:32 am
Sleek, smart, sassy…
August 21st, 2010 at 6:49 am
Thanks for hard work, but I don’t like it.
August 21st, 2010 at 9:08 am
Thanks for your work!
August 21st, 2010 at 11:24 am
Looks very nice, I must try it.
August 21st, 2010 at 4:19 pm
Love it!
August 21st, 2010 at 4:54 pm
Another minimalist WordPress theme. Faster, simpler, ‘n’ cleaner. Now I’m going to apply this theme for my personal WordPress blog.
August 21st, 2010 at 9:01 pm
Very good design. I really like it!
August 22nd, 2010 at 12:35 am
Good job! I love this one.
August 22nd, 2010 at 8:27 am
It’s true. Less is MORE!
August 22nd, 2010 at 10:41 am
Hmm…. I like it!
August 22nd, 2010 at 1:22 pm
Saw a question about “Oulipo” name… might be legally stolen from famous French Oulipo
? See : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo
August 22nd, 2010 at 5:26 pm
Looks kinda boring, don’t see what’s so “freakin’ amazing” about it. :/
August 23rd, 2010 at 5:04 am
The writing space is so narrow, waiting for a good theme from you.
August 23rd, 2010 at 2:11 pm
Good one, though would wish it a bit wider. Thanks! I’ve activated it.:-)
August 23rd, 2010 at 2:14 pm
Must add that it’s sleek, simple, and elegant; and, notable is the header fixed to the left so that the reader never loses sight of it.
August 23rd, 2010 at 3:44 pm
Well done. Appreciate if in future theme could be something about travel with wider width. Dark grey background and orange font colour on sidebar would be impressive from my point of view. Thanks.
August 24th, 2010 at 1:54 am
Ooh, love it. And I’ve always wanted Oulipo with a dark theme.
August 24th, 2010 at 6:21 am
Absolutely PERFECT! Thanks.
August 24th, 2010 at 3:30 pm
Nice and clean, I like it.
August 24th, 2010 at 10:43 pm
Definitely love this theme, thanks.
August 25th, 2010 at 3:28 am
Truly lovely!
August 25th, 2010 at 11:51 am
a pretty good one.. focus on the writing, and the impressions that come with it
August 25th, 2010 at 2:26 pm
Honestly… not seeing anything special, but it is OK to use. Sorry I cannot lie.
August 25th, 2010 at 4:28 pm
Perfect! Simple, clear…. great.
August 25th, 2010 at 8:28 pm
Beautifully simplistic, clean theme! I am very tempted to switch over to this one…
August 25th, 2010 at 10:01 pm
Just an idea: how about more colorful themes. A lot of your themes are plain white and clean, but more color variety would be extra nice. This one looks good, though.
August 26th, 2010 at 6:38 pm
Hi Lauralea, we love colorful themes, too—and we’ve added several recently. See Koi, Notepad, Greyzed, and Bueno as examples. You can view all our latest theme launches: blog.wordpress.com/category/themes/.
Also, many of our themes allow custom background color and background image to spice things up a bit. You can truly add your own personal touch and a bit of color using those features.
August 26th, 2010 at 12:05 am
I don’t like it so much ^^
August 26th, 2010 at 1:22 am
Too simple!
August 26th, 2010 at 9:34 am
thanks for placing the “categories” in the right column and not at the bottom:)
August 26th, 2010 at 4:29 pm
Love it. Added a doctor who header and I’m ready to go!
August 26th, 2010 at 6:32 pm
I love this theme! It’s so easy to customize. Will definitely keep this!
August 26th, 2010 at 11:20 pm
Hmm. Looks cool! Definitely a keeper.
August 27th, 2010 at 2:05 am
I like the simplicity of it. But, for a tech blog like mine, I like a theme with a little more, well … bulk and color to it.
August 27th, 2010 at 3:55 am
It’s ok but does look a lot like the other minimalistic themes. Where are all the fun, creative themes? Can we get more of those?