Hemingway theme mods

I’ve spent way too much of my free time, modifiying Kyle Neath’s Hemingway theme. One of the great things about his theme is that it achieves its beauty via the subtlety of shade. Links are matched to backgrounds by varying shades of grey, black, and white. I liked the general idea but I find it difficult to read text on black backgrounds so I decided to lighten the main post area a little bit. Finding a nice shade of grey wasn’t easy but I did a web search and came across a website called Hex Hub HTML Color Codes. The authors of this site have gatherered colors in terms of themes like “Warms” and “Neutrals.” When I clicked on the Neutrals I was presented with several dozen shades of grey with the hex code for each shade beside the color swatch. I could paste into the Hemingway CSS file. If you’re looking for a great online CSS color resource, this should be in your bookmark manager.
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Comment by Bhoney on 9 January 2006:
I really like the simplicity of Hemingway.However, after only 2 days I removed it as my default theme.
It is just maybe a tad bit too simple and hard to modify for people who are somewhat newbies.
This is a great theme with greatpotential but the Wordpress version needs a lot of tweaking as your categories, links and pages do not show up by default as they should and do on 99.9% of the other themes made for Wordpress.
Comment by Rasheq on 9 January 2006:
It definitely requires some knowledge of CSS and some comfort with Wordpress functions but I found it alot easier to configure then some other themes I’ve used.
What are you trying to do?
Comment by Allyn on 30 January 2006:
I’ve started a Hemingway Theme group over on flickr. I’m hoping that users of Hemingway will use this group as a place to discover new tweaks for the theme and to share their experiences hacking it.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/hemingway/