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Tuesday Mar 24 2009

Yep, yep I know. This has been done before. How unoriginal of me! Yet I'm gonna do it anyway. I'm gonna post 10 Tumblr themes that I think deserve some special attention. Because I'm a Tumblr theme creator myself and because I love to see great work by other designers. I've seen a few posts claiming to highlight the prettiest but... I didn't like them all that much. So here's a selection by yours stubborn truly. Many of these don't actually appear in the Tumblr theme garden.

Whether they're 'the best' is very subjective I suppose. I do however think these are pretty good compared to many, many others I've seen. Note that these screenshots most often don't really do justice to the themes. Click them to see the whole thing. Especially 'Subway' is a whole lot nicer in real than on this screenshot.

Feel free to link to other themes that you think look great in the comments.

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1. Knight

2. Coffee Shop

3. Notepad Chaos

4. The Radio Station

5. Phobic Man

6. Renaissance

7. Subway

8. Dusty

9. Penguin Classics

10. Bigfoot

Even though I quite like my own themes, I didn't add them to this list because that would obviously be a bit lame. You can find 'Helvetica' and 'iBlack' in the Tumblr Theme Garden and get Disqus / Twitter customized versions here (Helvetica) and here (iBlack)

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At 05 August '09 - 12:17 Michelle wrote:
Awesome.
Honestly this is great!
At 07 September '09 - 08:01 Myka wrote:
Nice. I like the Dusty theme but how do I use it for my tumblr site? Might be a stupid question, but I am clueless.
At 25 December '09 - 12:01 tracy wrote:
i want the dusty one , how do i get it?
At 17 January '10 - 21:12 dt wrote:
It’s great.
I love the dusty theme but i don’t know how to use it on my tumblr. Can you tell me where i can download the theme?
At 11 February '10 - 21:13 joomlawind wrote:
I like the Renaissance theme… How can i get the download url?
At 14 February '10 - 21:25 sharepointwind wrote:
Really good.
I like the coffee shop theme..where can i download?
At 03 March '10 - 04:39 favourite world wrote:
Renaissance theme was very nice
At 22 April '10 - 01:10 Kay wrote:
I used to have the coffee one as well, do you know if there is anyway i can get the code again? if you have time, please email me with a link or such. so glad that it made your list!! i love it and i’m so mad at myself for deleting the code…
At 21 July '10 - 02:45 JBieberFever30 wrote:
I want the Renaissance theme ! How do i get it?? It’s not working on allthemes.tumblr.com
At 07 November '10 - 04:08 Sam wrote:
Love the renaissancetheme… but link is dead. Do you happen to have a valid link / code?
At 10 December '10 - 23:46 Leisha wrote:
Hello, i love all the Themes you have made and i was wondering you would do a request? i have tried to make one myself but i cant do it at all :P your ones are amazing that’s why i want to ask you :)
(i don’t mind how the rest is set out, white writing maybe? wit some transparent?) the background of my theme i will put bellow,

http://s986.photobucket.com/albums/ae343..
At 27 January '11 - 18:20 dbld17 wrote:
hey I love the renaissance theme… is there a way I could have that as my theme?
At 03 May '11 - 11:11 ohsuzicue wrote:
For those looking for the Renaissance theme, a quick Google search resulted in this: http://www.tumblr.com/theme/179

Ta-da! :)

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