Textback

Made a WordPress theme called Textback over the winter. Wanted it to feel clean and deliberate, like the season itself—nothing wasted, every element doing actual work. The color and spacing are where the elegance lives. No decoration, just structure.

The navigation is complicated on purpose. Most themes bend over backward to be simple, to get out of the way. This one doesn’t. If you’re going to use it, you’re going to have to think about how you’re moving through it, and that’s the appeal for the kind of person who’d choose it in the first place.

It’s not for everyone. But nothing worth designing is.