Tumblr themes designed to assault the eyes -

[artery]

More RP blogs:

 

[Sylvie Paula Paula]

Man, if some Tumblr users want to recreate the style of old LiveJournal themes, it's not that hard to download one and convert it for Tumblr use. Same with Blogger/Blogspot themes, lmao. It'd be a lot better than some of this shit.

 

[toothpick]

the thing about tiny text... it was an acceptable enough aesthetic choice for websites that were "artsy" in nature (anime character shrines come to mind) when the max screen res was 1024x768.

there's no fucking excuse anymore.

the worst is the white bg with #EEEEEE 8pt text. I'd take the garish clashing colors over that any day. at least it's entertaining?

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

It's bad enough having a small light font. Having pretentious pseudo intellectual tripe written in a small light font is inexcusable.

 

[Very Clever Nickname]

shit it's like myspace and livejournal all over again

 

[Sylvie Paula Paula]

Making my rounds through the theme tags. Have a Big Mouth roleplay blog.

This is how it looks on my screen. The title, subtitle, and "written by cole" sections are all in the image itself. (which, pro tip: is not something you should do).

 

[artery]

Came across this Lucio roleplay blog today:

 

[Dysnomia]

More RP blogs:

I can't even read the posts. The mixture of fonts is hard on the eyes. The menu style might work on a movie trailer page or something like that. But on a personal blog it just makes things very user unfriendly.

I have a question, what's up with RPs wanting face claims? What's the point? I remember people RPing in straight text all the time years ago and it was much easier to read. People didn't get confused over who was who. They want you to go steal some DA art or an actor's photo to represent a character and it really breaks the immersion because then you can't imagine the character yourself based on the description. It just seems weird to me. But maybe I'm too oldschool to understand.

 

[Meowthkip]

But maybe I'm too oldschool to understand.

Yes, that one.

 

[artery]

I have a question, what's up with RPs wanting face claims? What's the point? I remember people RPing in straight text all the time years ago and it was much easier to read. People didn't get confused over who was who. They want you to go steal some DA art or an actor's photo to represent a character and it really breaks the immersion because then you can't imagine the character yourself based on the description. It just seems weird to me. But maybe I'm too oldschool to understand.

It originally started with LiveJournal roleplay comms and carried on from there, but was much more tame by comparison b/c you usually just picked from 15 icons per post unless you wanted to buy whatever LiveJournal's premium account thing was. There are some people on Tumblr who won't roleplay with a blog if they don't use icons, even if there's enough of a description to get an idea of what the character looks like. Mostly it's just lazy writing though, a lot of Tumblr rp is like... super casual semi-literate, two to three liner stuff per post with the bulk of it being dialog and the person writing using an icon to represent the character's expression or body language instead of writing it out.

 

[m0rnutz]

http://www.westernsocietyfucked100years.com

Note: It'll give up a popup asking to connect to your facebook. This is just a load of bullshit and an attempt at trolling.

<script>

//Alert message once script- By JavaScript Kit
//Credit notice must stay intact for use
//Visit http://javascriptkit.com for this script

//specify message to alert
var alertmessage= "WWW.WESTERNSOCIETYFUCKED100YEARS.COM would like to connect to your Facebook"


///No editing required beyond here/////

//Alert only once per browser session (0=no, 1=yes)
var once_per_session=1


function get_cookie(Name) {
  var search = Name + "="
  var returnvalue = "";
  if (document.cookie.length > 0) {
    offset = document.cookie.indexOf(search)
    if (offset != -1) { // if cookie exists
      offset += search.length
      // set index of beginning of value
      end = document.cookie.indexOf(";", offset);
      // set index of end of cookie value
      if (end == -1)
         end = document.cookie.length;
      returnvalue=unescape(document.cookie.substring(offset, end))
      }
   }
  return returnvalue;
}

function alertornot(){
if (get_cookie('alerted')==''){
loadalert()
document.cookie="alerted=yes"
}
}

function loadalert(){
   
alert(alertmessage)
}

if (once_per_session==0)
loadalert()
else
alertornot()

</script>

 

[Xerxes IX]

The worst era of Tumblr themes I can remember was 2013-2014 when everyone's themes had tiny pixel font and a big ass image of a character like Nagito Komaeda taking up half the screen.

the font in question:

I was glad a later tumblr update broke custom fonts like that because it killed that trend off.

 

[Sylvie Paula Paula]

I was glad a later tumblr update broke custom fonts like that because it killed that trend off.

Custom fonts aren't dead, you just have to jump through 20 different hoops to upload them.

 

[m0rnutz]

Custom fonts aren't dead, you just have to jump through 20 different hoops to upload them.

Not necessarily.
All it takes is a copy and paste into <head>

 

[artery]

Not necessarily.
All it takes is a copy and paste into <head>

You can also just upload your own font .ttfs onto a file sharing website like dropbox and paste this code in your css section if google fonts doesn't have the 'perfect' font for your blog.

@font-face{ 
font-family:"name"; 
src:url('https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/font share link.ttf'); }

Most theme resource blogs will have links to pre-uploaded fonts that anyone can paste into their blog's header or css code, too. Some definitely don't work anymore though, for some reason.

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

Tumblr needs to do away with the Tumblr themes with see through posts that make the font and words blend into the background.

 

[NG 070]

Making my rounds through the theme tags. Have a Big Mouth roleplay blog.

This is how it looks on my screen. The title, subtitle, and "written by cole" sections are all in the image itself. (which, pro tip: is not something you should do).
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I'm sorry, but I can't get over someone having, in all 100% seriousness, a Big Mouth-related RP blog.

 

[soryu]

I hate the blogs where the person adds a thousand words and pictures to their about section to the point where the about is longer than the number of posts on a single page.
I like the themes with bigger photo sizes, like 600-750px wide, also no special effects or anything, just keep it simple.
I'm envious of the people who can still capture the MySpace styled themes perfectly. I bet a lot of them don't even know what skill they have.

 

[Antithesis]

You know what's the worst, in my opinion? Blurred container themes. I don't have an example on me but essentially everything in the container is blurred until you hover over it and it becomes readable. That trend is actually around in some parts of the community, surprisingly.

At one point in time there was also a trend with tilted container themes. Again, I don't have an example, but you probably get the idea. Between the tilted posts, hard to read font, and stupid formatting, it's really difficult to read, and it's mostly there for the ~aesthetic~

 

[m0rnutz]

http://kazamafamily.tumblr.com/about
I had to put on my glasses to read without going cross-eyed, and I still couldn't see correctly because of the blur.

This is the theme creator. http://terum0b.tumblr.com/byf

EDIT: Oh my fucking god, I was clearing my block list and jesus christ the autism from eons ago on these people's accounts.