# Essential, a simple theme for Discourse 🎨

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/essential-a-simple-theme-for-discourse/180750
**Category:** Theme
**Created:** [February 22, 2021, 2:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/essential-a-simple-theme-for-discourse/180750 "2021-02-22T14:46:06Z")
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### Author: ![meghna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/meghna/32/453356_2.png) [@meghna](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meghna)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2021, 3:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/essential-a-simple-theme-for-discourse/180750/3 "2021-02-23T03:56:58Z")

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This theme is a minor variation of the [Elementary theme](https://meta.discourse.org/t/elementary-a-simple-theme-for-discourse/177159) which was originally inspired from [Sam’s simple theme](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sams-personal-minimal-topic-list-design/23552). There are no changes in topic page layout.

Just to clarify: the date under topic title is topic created date, and the date in activity column is last posted date.

I am currently working on a new theme which will be very minimal and will remove elements from topic page that may be confusing for beginners.

Thank you for the feedback!

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