The Journal Theme

The Journal is a wordpress theme that looks to be designed to showcase a lot of content and provide a lot of ways of providing editorial control.

Highlighted articles are given top billing throughout the site in a pleasant shade of yellow reminiscent of a Post-It note. Recent articles are also squeezed in above the fold in the top nav.

Categories of posts and subcategories fit nicely in the top nav. Despite the focus on text, images are given a lot of play in this theme as well.

One downside with the post-level layout however, is the focus on the “Pages” for the sidebar. Presumably the good, freshly updated content is in Categories, not Pages. But that can easily be remedied with swapping out the widgets, I would assume.

Like the Daily Edition Theme, I wonder if there is a bit too much white space. There’s plenty of utilization of space above the fold, but as you scroll down the content gets a bit sparse.

Colors are simple and lovely, however – with clean white, black, Post It yellow and red playing off each other quite nicely.

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