As promised on Friday, Voluptua, an imposing minimalist WordPress theme, is now available for download. Voluptua features large swiss typography with all text being set in Helvetica Neue, degrading via Helvetica and Arial to a standard sans serif typeface on systems that are typographically challenged.
Voluptua can currently be seen running unmodified at Musicians Who Blog and, with a few palette tweaks, at Brass Revolver, where, as you can see from the screen shot, it is doubling as a rather effective photo blog theme.
I envisage this theme being utlilised on any kind of blog including personal blogs, photo blogs, design blogs and portfolio blogs. Its clean typography and no nonsense approach is intended to convey a feeling of confidence and opulence, hence the choice of name.
You can view a standard demo here and download the zip file here.
Installation is simple. Download the zip file and upload the resulting ub_voluptua folder to your WordPress themes folder.
As always, this Upstart Blogger WordPress theme is free. You may modify the theme as you wish but, if you do decide to use it, please leave the footer link back to Upstart Blogger intact.
I’m very keen to see how this WordPress theme gets used so please leave a comment if you decide to take it for a spin.
You’ve done a great job on this one Ashley, thanks for keeping it open and free.
Simplicity to the max.
Love this design.
Best Wishes
Typography is brilliant. I’d give it a go myself if it had a header.
Hi there
Just to say, stumbled on this new theme and I am, as I write this, uploading it for my new site. http://www.LoveHelvetica.com
Seems somewhat appropriate to use don’t you think?
Graham
Bg color is horrible, large fonts are like 1999. But hey, thats just my 2 cents.
Wicked. Keep on releasing themes like this, and you might have me switching back from Textpattern just to use one.
I love how simple this is, and I’m taking it for a spin.
I love this theme. I’ve been using it on my blog: http://www.photojournalistswhoblog.com and it has been so fun. Because there are no graphics, it’s easy to modify. Thanks UB!
After hours and hours of scouring the Web for minimal, clean wordpress themes, I finally found the holy grail of minimal themes and it’s already on my Web site.
I even had a discussion today with family members about minimalism and its benefit in design and blogging.
Simple is beautiful… Thank’s for this very great theme !
thanks ashley, am really enjoying the theme!
is it me or widgets don’t work with it? is it possible to have them working please?? :)
Hi,
I’ve been looing for theme that clean since a long time! Is there any localization possible to switch the blog to French? I would love to!
Thank you! I’m using voluptua on my personal/design blog at…
http://adbrad.com/blog.
I’ve made some extensive modifications and additions, but the framework is all yours. Thanks again. I love the minimalist, typography centric attitude of the theme. Hope you enjoy my rendition of voluptua. Thanks again!
Beautiful clean blogstyle – and I’ll have it…if I can figure how to upload it (I’m an old ludite).
Can u quickly take me thru this (I have already downloaded the ub_voluptua file, and have a blogsite with wordpress: timmartinjournal.wordpress.com.)
Thanks!
T.
I love this theme. Actually, I love every theme you have to offer. I am currently using Voluptua on my blog at chickenteeth.org. I still have many mods to make, but it’s perfect to just leave up when I don’t have time to make changes.
this is my version of the theme:
http://www.alexanderschindel.com/blog/
you did a great job. THANK YOU! i hope you like it?
cheers.
alex.
Thanks Ashley, For me this Simple beautiful
Hiya – fantastic theme.
I adapted it a bit and used it on my movie site – http://www.bodg.it looks beautiful. Thank you.
Looks great! And I’m especially happy to see it getting modified by another independent artist.
i use it !!!
good job !!!!!
simple,minimalis theme,look great.i like this theme
I asked about voluptua on your recent “who are you?” post…
its good to know voluptua 2 will be available sometime in the future.
in the meantime, is voluptua compatable with wp 3.0?
thanks!
Yes, it is compatible with wp 3.0.
I really love this theme and desperately want to use it, but I need to get rid of the black boarders around the images, and change the background colour to white! How do I do this? I’ve played about editing it in wordpress, but I son’t know the first thing about it really! What text am I looking for to edit or delete? Thank you
Great theme! Using it on http://glark.org with some customizations.
Hi, Thanks for this theme. I am the developer of a blogging engine called Pritlog. I decided to use this theme as the default in the upcoming release (0.82) of Pritlog. You can see it in action here – http://blog.hardkap.com
like like voluptua a lot!
i looked for this in the wordpress theme pages via their search and it ain’t there or is it? if not why do you say it is a wordpress theme?
cheers
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