Welcome to Monotone
This is Monotone.
Monotone is a simple yet dynamic theme for photo-blogging. The layout is clean and non-intrusive, but the way it handles images makes each entry unique (and requires no intervention to do so).
Monotone takes the first image attached to a post and samples colors from it for use in the surrounding layout.
Each post needs to contain one image, and optionally, any text you want. The theme does the rest, pulling colors out of and resizing the images for use in the design.
You can use the visual or the HTML editor in wordpress to input your image and supporting text.
Enjoy Monotone, and please, let us know what you think!
This is beautiful. When do you think the theme will be available for download?
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Do we have it yet? I’m anxious!!!
Excellent work indeed. Is the theme to be released soon?
This is amazing!! Youre a dream come true.. I told my photoblogger friends already.. something else though noone will remember it in all this wonderful work: excellent choice of font.. thank you very much on everything!
cool
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very simple, yet sophisticated, Thanks !!
It’s a great theme, but I’m not sure I like how it resizes images. It will shrink an 800×532 image to a smaller size to fit, but it will post an 800×560 image full size. Why the difference?
its cool
Seems nice but might need an extra column on a side for other info.
So sweet
I like it!
Putting this to use today.
http://travelingphotos.wordpress.com/
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hawt. I think this would be great if I had some applicable content!
looking good
may very well give it a test run with some of my pics and see how it handles them
Wow, this is really beautiful. I´going to try out this theme soon
Seems pretty.
For downloading check the SVN:
http://svn.automattic.com/wpcom-themes/monotone/
thank you. great, clean design…. have been trying different ways with my shadow picture site ( http://www.constantcompanion.wordpress.com ) and all that struggle….. and you found a much better solution…
thank you.
Any chance of using a method other than url_fopen() to grab the files? Some shared hosts (Dreamhost, for one) disable it and thus the niftiness of the auto-color-match just doesn’t work, plain and simple.
Could it fall back to a filesystem call if allow_url_fopen is false? Come to think of it, why are you incurring the http overhead in the first place, rather than calling out to the filesystem?
I love the idea behind it
The theme is great! The only problems I have with it are that it needs to be widget-aware and the sidebars are really bright and distracting from the images. Other than that, excellent work. Keep it up!
What a really nice theme, a little slow sometimes though. I might have to start putting up aphotoblog my self now. GoldCoaster
la verdad es que esta muy wapo si