20:24
It’s been almost over a year since the last theme, and I’ve been using a white-on-black theme since the day I started blogging. I figured it’s about time to shed away the monochrome feel, bust open the windows, tear down the walls and go wide open. I hereby welcome you to The Silent Room’s new look: The Open Room.
As you can see, this layout is greatly inspired by the clarity of off-white paint and the neutrality of the Helvetica. I should mention that documentary on the typeface also played a big part in the inspiration of this design. As for the header and footer images, well, they come from the very beautiful film 5 Centimeters Per Second by Makoto Shinkai.
This layout lacks a sidebar, something I’ve wanted to do for a long time. A sidebar may be a convenient thing for a blog to have, but recently, I feel that it’s proving to be rather redundant. Besides, I kind of enjoy being able to write in large wide spaces. I used to have a theme with a fluid width, but it’s quite hard to do any formatting with that.
I must thank Ross for taking the time to code this layout [although he's been very busy]. So, I hope you like the new look, and routine blogging will continue as soon as I’m free from other commitments :)
