I’ve been a fan of Scott Allan Wallick’s minimalist WordPress themes for a while now; their clean aesthetics are a refreshing change from over-complicated designs (er, much like some of the designs for this very site, ahem). I particularly like his Blog.txt theme, and have used it on another WordPress based project for it’s readability and simplicity.

I’ve started playing around with his ultra-stripped Sandbox theme, which shows great potential for skinning via customised CSS. I’m also fascinated by it’s built-in hAtom support, which seems like it could become a better method for syndicating web content than separate RSS/Atom files. Sandbox is also making waves on WordPress.com as it’s the ideal theme for taking advantage of their new Custom CSS feature.