# Sam's Simple Theme

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/sams-simple-theme/23552>\
**Category:** Theme\
**Tags:** official, sams-simple-theme\
**Created:** [December 31, 2014, 3:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sams-simple-theme/23552 "2014-12-31T03:20:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 2:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sams-simple-theme/23552/26 "2014-12-31T14:38:08Z")

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> [@boomzilla](#):
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> I think replacing them with names makes things just as busy, just in a different way. A wall of color looks better to my eyes than a wall of text.

I think the crux of the issue is that my perfect interface to Discourse is different to what others ideal interface is. We ship a “default” that is a “one size fits all” which @codinghorror makes all the final calls on.

We ship _today_ a site customisation section that lets discourse admins adjust to taste.

We will never be able to get to a global agreement of what the “ideal” minimal design is, but I can, in theory, have a theme that I own and maintain that is my “ideal” minimal design.

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