I design & build a lot of bespoke WordPress themes for clients, and before I just took the best parts out of the default Kubrick and made my own ‘vanilla’ theme.
The new default, TwentyTen is way too complex for my needs, and is a bit kitchen sink.
Are there any lightweight WordPress 3 themes like these? http://designceo.com/20-lightweight-minimalist-wordpress-themes ?
Thanks!
Just a suggestion and not necessarily the answer, but some of those are so basic I’m wondering if using the Starkers theme from Elliot Jay Stocks and just adding a bit of style to it, could make the simple theme you’ve been looking for.
Check out http://standardtheme.com/ — they just released version 2.0, and from what I’ve seen it works quite well, whether or not you want to customize it.
How about Toolbox? It is HTML5 based as well.