New Theme: Vertigo
Today we are excited to introduce a new, beautifully designed, free theme called Vertigo. It makes great use of WordPress post formats. It has a charming, hitchcockian typeface for site and post titles. And it’s dark.
The Vertigo Theme
With Vertigo you can set your own accent color for links, which is used in several places throughout the theme, if you don’t feel like red is a good fit for your blog. You can also have a second color of your choice for the site title by using the settings in Appearance → Header.
The theme is inspired by the design work of the late Saul Bass, Art Goodman, and Dave Nagata. Based on the original design by Matthew Buchanan. We hope you like this new theme and start creating incredible blogs with it. As usual, go exploring on the theme showcase.
- May 9, 2011
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Nice looks good 😉
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Must say that love the fact that you are using all the post formats. They are great fun to use
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Aw man… Would have been perfect for my Working in the Clouds blog post…
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This was my Tumblr theme before. o.O Seriously.
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It’s one of the most popular themes in Tumblr.
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Way too dark!
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Wow. This is something different. =)
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I used this in tumblr. Good but still I am looking for a better photography theme.
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I didnt like it.
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“You were a very apt pupil!” … One of my favorite Hitchcock movies 🙂 O! Nice theme too …
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I remember seeing this over at Tumblr and wondering how it’d be to have it on WP. The header font reminds me less of Hitchcock and more of Fred Quimby as the credits rolled for Tom & Jerry. This is good stuff!
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I just love this theme, there’s only one simple small little little detail that makes it completely useless for me, IT DOESN’T SUPPORT Å, Ä, AND Ö 😦
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Yeah, I hate the dark themes. Lighter backgrounds are more appealing. What else does it offer….
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Vertigo might be a good choice for someone who wants to post lots of photos. The font choice is very casual and fun. Congratulations on another wonderful Theme option!
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I’m trying for a month to change my theme… but this could be it 🙂
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I really like this one!
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Ooh I’m gonna try this one out. Love the font.
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I love this actually. Alot.
This looks amazing.
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I’m loving it. Using it for my other blog. 10/10
Can we not have sidebars, for if I use more widgets it gets pretty clouded down there in the footer.
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Can’t you guys ever make a theme that is dark, uses san-serif type for everything, has a large custom header image (that can either be behind or totally disable the text title) and that uses business/cool/boring color palette (like maybe mostly black, grays and rich blue) or something? Oh, and can you please make it a 3-column layout?
I just feel like every theme WordPress is coming out with is girly/gimmicky/too cutesy (with overuse of serif fonts) and very few have real custom header image options that can replace the text title if you want it to.
😦
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The body font in Vertigo is sans-serif. Also, regarding the header image, you should be able to hide the header text in Vertigo from Appearance > Header.
All things said, though, more themes are coming. 🙂
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Dark is good.
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Quirky, offbeat, fun. I like it…
Are there perhaps other iconic-movie-style themes in the works? James Bond? Pink Panther?
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While I don’t think I’ll be changing to it, I’m glad that there’s an alternative for all those folks (including myself) who use the super-popular Greyzed theme!
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Looks very cool to me. But i think i have seen this in tumblr.
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Definitely. The original author designed it for a Tumblr theme.
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There is a problem.
The greek letters don’ t appear at the headers of posts.
Every greek header at posts or at menu are…invisible!
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Yes, unfortunately the font used doesn’t contain a complete character set. We will let you know if this gets better.
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Very cool – won’t work for my blog, but I do like it
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This looks really nice! I don’t like that it doesn’t have a sidebar, but I’m sure it’ll work for others.
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It does have two optional sidebar areas above the footer.
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Ooh! How about a Transformers theme?
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Well…
Nothing for me. I don’t like dark themes. Exhausting for my eyes and very difficult to read more than a second… Stupid, but except of the darkness vers nice! 😉
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Love the theme, but don’t think it would suite it for what my blog is about.
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Very good. I like the fact that this is so different to most of the other themes.
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Avant garde.
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I am now using this theme.
It is very refreshing to see a FREE theme. Something that we poor people are sick of having.
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I was expecting Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novack in the background 🙂
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So cute and cartoonish! Might be a bit too dark to look at for a long time but I definitely like its uniqueness. Nice work!
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This one is from Tumblr… well that’s where I saw it first.
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Nice graphic look.
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It looks unique and different from the others. Nice.
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Way cool! A bit too stylistic for me, but it’s definitely a quality addition to the free template family!
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It thought it’d make me feel unbalanced haha 😛
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I like it very much, suited to an idea for a blog I’m cooking up, but not my current one…
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If I have a blog set up already…. can I change over to say…. this, and it will keep everything the same OR do I have to start from scratch again?
I do photography and photos look really good on black.
Thanks,
Jules.
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You may change themes as often as you like with your blog. Your posts, pages, media, comments, etc, are all kept separate from the theme you use.
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Now THIS I like!!!!
Custom background and header?
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More of these types of themes please!
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May be kind of hard on the eyes though… esp trying to read on phone.
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This is excellent! Not like any other theme really – novel and eye-catching. Thanks!
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Very nice. It’s really cool! I liked …
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I prefer to choose easy and light themes 🙂
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Very “fancy” type of theme, too bad the column width is 430 only, and with single column only… arggg….
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Too much like Tumblr for me… might be a nice change for others.
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I really liked, but I’m brazilian and write in portuguese in my blog. I saw that the font is a little irregular because of accents, cedilla and others. 😦
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Thanks, but I’ll stick to my current theme 🙂
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Red and black are totally my colors: blood and death, baby! Perfect theme for my irreverent posts…
Love it! 🙂
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Good theme, I know some bloggers needs dark not dorky! So, why do you called Vertigo? Is that inspired by U2… 😉
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I think I’m going to use it. It’s soo cute! 🙂
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Hi, how to give “don’t-like” rating?
😀
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It’s fun to see unique themes bursting forth, although I prefer a more conventional style. I would love to see a one column theme similar to this (but not so wild) with a wider blog post area (600…) and white background / custom background. Keep the creativity flowing!
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More themes are definitely coming.
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This is my Tumblr theme. I don’t get it… Why is WordPress so much into releasing Tumblr or Tumblr like themes?!
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I love it! It reminds me a lot of a simple clean tumblr layout, especially the conversation part. Can’t wait to try it 😀
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Love it. This was my theme on Tumblr before. 😀
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WOW! This theme is so wonderful to have as an option. I love all the creative aspects that went into this design. My hat is off to you creative geniuses!
I as well enjoy the fact that this will display large photos with ease on a post page.You are greatly appreciated.
Many smiles,
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Very interesting.
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I like it! Needs different color options though, maybe grey?… Anyways, good job on this theme! 🙂
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I was expecting Bono and U2 in the background… No? I think I’m lost.
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Truth be told, it feels strange having a Tumblr theme on my wordpress blog. o.O
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Looks good. Probably a perfect theme for extreme sports. Like it!
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Oh my gosh! This is the theme I’m using for my tumblr account! So meant to be! 🙂
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This one is nice, and it’s very different, thanks for it!
Looking forward to more WordPress Themes – updates feel a little slow lately. 🙂
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Hey Guys, Really good looking theme! Love it! Way to go!
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Nice and dark. I like it.
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Cute! 😀
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Wow, It’s very cool. I Like It 😀
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It can give a refreshing change to some blogs that are just, well, boring and need spicing up a bit.
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Red on dark… awesome
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I think it looks awesome. I may try this one out.
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Love the font! But I hate reading black blogs, they make my eyes hurt…
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I’ve ever used this theme in tumblr.
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Nice but I’m too happy with mystique to change. 😛
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This is so different to most of the other themes.
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I like it! It’s very simple color wise.
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Matias thanks for sharing this new theme with me… I love it because of the colors. Nice day and success for you!
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Looks like a nice theme. Thanks for making it free as well.
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Cool… I’ve already changed my theme.
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Looking at this, I feel like those people that walk into a art gallery only see ugly paintings, clearly then I must be uneducated and as refined as a rock on the mountains you may think, cant blame you for my view is that, attributed A for effort and a F for sharing it with everyone else, very brave.
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I like it 😀
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Very low readability: white text on black background may look nice, but it’s very difficult and hard to read.
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Hello, I’m very happy for using a new theme in my blogs… I am courious of trying Vertigo… Then I tell you what I think of it. Bye and thanks!
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Good article, nice, every greek header at posts or at menu are…invisible!
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Nice, looks good.
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Very good.
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Loved this theme – it is comic-like!
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Love it! Love the red.
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Hi, nice theme. But seems to does not support accents in the titles of articles.
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Finally free theme!
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It’s great man, really nice
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How to get it matias?
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You can find this theme in the Appearance -> Themes section of the WordPress.com Dashboard.
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Love the fonts, love the dark… most of all, love the Post Formats!
Changed to it faster than you could say ‘Alfred’ 😛
Finally a theme that feels like me 😀
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Follow up…
Would’ve liked there to be sidebars, and why does the title font do funny things to parentheses..?
Also, most distressingly, the title of the post disappears if post-formatted as Image :O
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Each theme is unique. All of these things are style choices for this particular theme. Check out http://theme.wordpress.com/ for more choices.
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OK. This one, fantastic.
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Nice theme!
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Pretty cool!
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Looks good! This is a great start for a free theme. Keep it up WP peeps!
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