Automattic: Monotone
May 14th, 2008
We created Monotone with Automattic, the company behind Wordpress.com. The challenge: create a theme that changed photo-blogging up a bit and brought back some of the nostalgia from the early photo-blogging days.
The end result is Monotone, a simple but dynamic theme for wordpress. It makes each photoblog, and furthermore, each entry, unique by taking the attached image and sampling colors from the layout to create a one of a kind color palette for the page.
We really loved being able to work with such a smart group of individuals and continue to work with Automattic on some other top-secret projects.
We’ve been just enamored by the response this theme has gotten with responses like the following:
I really am enjoying my photos all over again, and looking at the world with fresh bright eyes, thanks to you!
Much obliged,
Carrie Cahill Mulligan
Monotone is great. Thank you. My photos have finally found a theme that does them justice (in my opinion).
– Khürt
Beautiful photo and theme. Great work.
– juiced
Sphere: Related ContentReally nice! Makes me want to start a photo-blog. I was searching for new incentives to take my camera for walks, and here it is. World, watch out, the shutter bug is coming back, hehe…
– Simone
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