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  1. The theme is looking great so far! And YES I love singular.php as well ;)

    My all time favorite WP theme was the Twenty 12 because of the clean design and I like seeing that 16 is following that same minimal approach.

    1. Always appreciate your experienced and insightful responses AJ. Thanks for reading!

  2. Hey, Matt!

    That’s great. Love the WordPress community, lots of appreciation for all the contributors.

    As I mentioned at MWP, I also feel at home with GitHub, contributed twice to TwentySixteen theme. :)

    1. I noticed just the other day you were on the CONTRIBUTORS.md file too! We’re contributor brothers!

  3. Raí Siqueira says:

    Hello, Matt, nice article, I am also in a relationship with singular.php. I’m glad you also highlight the other parts of the Twenty Sixteen, congratulations!

  4. Currently, there are 5 color schemes available in Twenty Sixteen. Only one of theme (the default color scheme) would be considered “high contrast” by WCAG Guidelines for color contrast.

    It depends on how you define “high contrast”, but this ins’t entirely true anymore. With this changeset, all bundled colour schemes now have the contrast that WCAG 2.0 level AA requires (4.5:1).

    1. Thanks so much for reading Takashi! It was a serious pleasure to learn from you on this project. That looks like an excellent commit, I’ll pull it down and take a look.

  5. Great post Matt!

    I have recently adopted the Twenty Sixteen theme and am loving the experience so far.

    Thanks for sharing.

    1. Glad to hear! I’ll be releasing a fork of Twenty Sixteen called “Beyond TwentySixteen”. My site will be run on it and I’m hoping to get it approved on the Theme Directory. Obviously, I’ll blog about that as well, so watch for that. Thanks for reading!

  6. Twenty Sixteen looks nice, except for that hideous black border that makes it suitable only for obituaries. Is there an easy way to get rid of it?

    1. There are color settings. If you set the background color to the same as the page color then it’ll be gone. Or you can change it to any color you like a very non-obituary color like brink pink! Have at it!

  7. Why doesn’t 2016 have logo settings?

  8. I’m very interested in Beyond TwentySixteen. Do you have a link to the fork?

    1. Hi Glen, Glad to hear it! I’m trying to wrap it up soon. I’ll post here and announce via my newsletter when I do.

      Thanks!

      1. Fantastic. Is there a way to get updates from this website or thread? I would love to get a message when it is ready or test it anytime. I would love if Twenty sixteen had a one column template option. I can even make it if it hasn’t already been done.

  9. I was using a PC with a small screen before and didn’t see your newsletter sign up link. Can’t wait to try it.

  10. The sign up loading animation has a lot of noise. Would you like me to make a cleaner animation?

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