New Theme: Piano Black
Say hello to Piano Black, the newest theme to launch on WordPress.com. This dark and elegant theme showcases your content with a design that feels sophisticated yet techy and modern.
Piano Black front-page detail.
Make it yours with a header image, background, and custom menu, and optional RSS and Search areas in the header. Piano Black also includes a full-width-template for dropping the sidebar on pages. See more information on the Theme Showcase.
Designed by mono-lab — and a long-time popular theme for self-hosted WordPress blogs — Piano Black is available now in your dashboard under Appearance → Themes.
July 23rd, 2011 at 4:37 am
Wow, I actually might use this one next time.
July 23rd, 2011 at 11:23 am
This is a great theme. I love it. It is simplistic, but elegant. The theme team have really out done themselves. I’m gonna make one of my blogs into this theme!
July 23rd, 2011 at 1:41 pm
That’s a really fine theme for special blogs.
July 23rd, 2011 at 4:16 pm
Love this kind of theme. Minimal.
July 23rd, 2011 at 5:05 pm
Cool theme… I hate the font choice though. I think a more serif-type font would be better. It just clashes for the sharpness of the colors and the softness of the font choice (don’t mind me I love serif fonts LOL).
July 25th, 2011 at 10:06 pm
Hi Lotus, you can change the fonts for this theme, and any WordPress.com theme, with the Custom Design upgrade.
July 24th, 2011 at 7:39 am
Excellent work! I absolutely love dark themes as I believe they are easier on the eyes.. .and this one is perfect!
July 24th, 2011 at 8:07 am
I very much like this theme. Good job, guys!
July 24th, 2011 at 1:20 pm
Dear WordPress: I love your site, but all your new themes seem to look the same. I chose a more artistic theme for my site. I’d like to see more artistic themes being offered. What do you think?
July 25th, 2011 at 10:09 pm
We’re continuing to launch more and more themes, of all kinds of styles. If you have any ideas for themes you’d like to see on WordPress.com we’d love to hear them in our themes forum: http://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/themes.
July 24th, 2011 at 2:04 pm
It looks beautiful, but not clean.
July 25th, 2011 at 1:05 am
Such a great formal schemata! Would be lovely for a simple zen presentation…
July 25th, 2011 at 4:21 am
Great black theme for professional use especially music-themed blogs.
July 25th, 2011 at 4:42 am
Very attractive theme… great work!
July 25th, 2011 at 8:23 am
Cool black! Expecting more awesome themes from you.
July 25th, 2011 at 1:53 pm
I’m using this theme and I love it. It’s perfect for vibe of my site. Thanks for making such a cool theme!
July 25th, 2011 at 6:43 pm
Maybe it’s the time to change my theme!
July 25th, 2011 at 10:01 pm
Dark and simple. Nice.
July 26th, 2011 at 2:21 am
Very nice! Simple and elegant!
July 26th, 2011 at 12:58 pm
I may be black but sorry I am staying white! Good looking though.
July 26th, 2011 at 4:25 pm
Very nice and simple – however I love the theme that I am currently using. Excellent work however!
July 26th, 2011 at 7:05 pm
I recently got a compliment on the way my blog looks with this theme by a friend of mine who is a web designer. He said that this theme was the best so far. It works well with my music themed blog. Great Job. I’m glad this theme is available!!!
July 27th, 2011 at 2:32 am
Exactly what I’ve been looking for. This one gives my blog a very professional look and feel. Thank you!!
July 27th, 2011 at 2:35 am
Very cool.
July 27th, 2011 at 3:05 am
Very nice for a ‘style’ blog.
July 27th, 2011 at 3:12 am
I like how simple it is. Not distracting to look at.
July 27th, 2011 at 7:26 am
This is really simple, but I like it.
July 27th, 2011 at 1:44 pm
This theme is really nice, but like a couple of you said, “I like my current theme more” as well.
July 27th, 2011 at 5:07 pm
Very simple and clean. Love it!
July 27th, 2011 at 5:48 pm
This is an awesome theme! It totally classes up the place.
July 27th, 2011 at 11:13 pm
Wow, cool! I was looking for such a thing.
July 28th, 2011 at 7:11 am
Yay, black! And it’s free!
July 28th, 2011 at 10:08 am
I could not find one that I like but there it is!!!
July 28th, 2011 at 10:28 am
I love the combo of simplicity with dark classic colors. This theme is a winner!
July 28th, 2011 at 9:51 pm
I’m new here and Piano Black’s been the first to catch my eyes in the theme section. Adore elegant simplicity!
July 29th, 2011 at 3:49 pm
Sleek and elegant!
July 29th, 2011 at 5:06 pm
Love it! Great job guys!
July 29th, 2011 at 10:07 pm
Lovely, it’d work well on a photo blog too!
July 30th, 2011 at 3:20 am
An elegant and simple theme. Enjoyable, but I shall make do with Vostok.
July 30th, 2011 at 6:01 am
This theme is good, great job!
July 30th, 2011 at 7:52 am
Splendid! This is what I was searching for… Thank you Lance.
July 30th, 2011 at 3:28 pm
I hate it when I like a theme but it doesn’t fit my blog! Great job.
July 30th, 2011 at 7:01 pm
Finally a new theme in black. Love the design and modern look.
July 31st, 2011 at 8:14 am
Cool theme. Good work. I personally like dark themes over light ones.
July 31st, 2011 at 1:41 pm
Awesome theme!
July 31st, 2011 at 8:35 pm
Love the theme! Just changed it for my music site! Check it out.
July 31st, 2011 at 9:40 pm
Great theme! Saw it today, and had to put it up right-away…
August 1st, 2011 at 1:16 am
Well, it’s elegant and simple. But it doesn’t look like a piano.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:49 am
This is such a great design! Luv it! It would be great if we could customize the color of the background!
August 2nd, 2011 at 4:38 pm
Great news, roniel—you can customize the color of the background: from Appearance → Themes if you want to add a background image or color.
August 1st, 2011 at 10:16 am
Finally a stylish dark theme. (Thank you, please keep ‘em coming! Some people serious eye issues with the straight white most WordPress.com themes use, which is why I left WordPress.com in favor of Tumblr.)
August 2nd, 2011 at 5:44 pm
We do have quite a few dark themes now: http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/colors/dark/. In some cases, the screenshot there is white, but if you look at the theme options you’ll see the dark color scheme as an option, like with Twenty Eleven.
August 1st, 2011 at 3:41 pm
Looks great! I like it!