34 Amazing Tumblr Themes, Twitter could never look this good!!!

March 23, 2009 - 40 Comments
Inspiration, Showcase, Web Apps

Twitter is the number 1 in the war of the microblogging apps, does it deserve its place there? Maybe. What about the others? Do you remember Tumblr?

Tumblr is still there and still making it easy to share text, photos, URLs, music, and video clips. And just like Twitter you can post a tumblelog from your browser, phone, desktop or via email.

Customization of your Twitter homepage is limited, changing the background and styling the links is about all you will get. With Tumblr, there is a lot more, you can create a sophisticated unique theme very easily, all you need is a basic knowledge of CSS, and you are good to go…or you can download a theme.

Below you will find 34 Amazing Tumblr Themes, Twitter could never look this good!!!

Tumblr Screencast – Rough Guide to Tumblr

Screenkast:Tumblr from Greg Cooper on Vimeo.

Vertigo for Tumblr

Small for Tumblr

itsnotlikethat for Tumblr

JUVENILIA for Tumblr

The PhotoBoard for Tumblr

Has A Portfolio for Tumblr

Twittr Inspird for Tumblr

Franklin Street for Tumblr

Penguin Classics for Tumblr

Screenshot for Tumblr

Munich for Tumblr

Knight for Tumblr

Cooked Wood for Tumblr

Nigredo for Tumblr

Not Quite for Tumblr

Black and Blue Eyes for Tumblr

Time Capsule for Tumblr

Simplification for Tumblr

Buggy for Tumblr

Museum for Tumblr

Strict for Tumblr

Danny Has a Theme for Tumblr

Dashed for Tumblr

nine of mine for Tumblr

Evening Tea for Tumblr

Box Factory for Tumblr

Nostalgia for Tumblr

Bigfoot for Tumblr

Graph the Museum for Tumblr

Dayvan Mini for Tumblr

Perfs’s for Tumblr

White Space for Tumblr

Shhhhhh! This is a Library for Tumblr

I Am Sofa King for Tumblr

RSS & Twitter (seems a bit hypocritical)

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Danh ba web 2.0
23 Mar, 2009

Great themes for Tumblr. Thanks so much
Follow me on tumblr: http://banhaclong20.tumblr.com/

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AJ
23 Mar, 2009

Tumblr is a sub-par blogging solution.

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kyle
23 Mar, 2009

tumblr is a great idea. hopefully great sites like http://www.affluence.org and http://www.tumblr.com can make it through this squeeze!

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Frank
23 Mar, 2009

I’m glad Tumblr finally added new themes! It’s about time. There other themes before this new version were getting old to me.

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prunch
23 Mar, 2009

Tumblr is showing good growth, not twitter good but good.

http://atrocial.com/2009/03/a-traffic-comparison-of-the-top-social-sites/

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heratik
23 Mar, 2009

tumblr is awesome! but twitter is completely a different blogging experience…

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snowcaps
23 Mar, 2009

I was hoping for a bit more inspiration. They’re all very stereotypical web 2.0

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Malcolm Bastien
23 Mar, 2009

Ya, people never seem to understand that any website can look absolutely awesome, as long as they give you the ability too. Hopefully the sex appeal of these awesome themes will get people to take a look at Tumblr and how central and easy of a process they’ve made having a sick “blog” online.

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ep
23 Mar, 2009

it’s odd that you include the Twitter Inspird theme on a post titled “Twitter could never look this good”. Good selection nonetheless.

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Entrepreneur
23 Mar, 2009

I’ve had a Tumblr account for quite some time now and I never knew you could change your themes or use it for micro-blogging. I primarily use it for clipping links.

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Thomas Willian Daly
23 Mar, 2009

Been using ‘VERTIGO’ for quite a few months. One of the best themes out there. Check it out at http://thomaswilliamdaly.tumblr.com

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Giuliano Maciocci
24 Mar, 2009

Museum and Silo by Paul Giacherio are awesome, and with some strategic modifications they can cater for a full-blown blog. I used a heavily modded Silo on http://bravelittlememe.com, and added third party tag and comment systems to fill in the missing functionality.

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JARED
26 Mar, 2009

MY TMBLR CSS IS THE BEST EVAR!!

black + blue minimalist

aljar3d.tumblr.com

hahah

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Helena
16 May, 2009

Lovely! Thank you for sharing these :)

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icel
21 May, 2009

so nice. .. twitter is another thing,but they were both the best for me..

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bluejackal
17 Jun, 2009

amazing themes. nice post. check out my tumblr – bluejackal.tumblr.com i tend to post interesting pictures

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tinyxo
5 Jul, 2009

Thank you so much!
Follow me at http://www.tinyxo.tumblr.com if you want. I follow back. (:

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Steve Rio | Design | Marketing | New Media
23 Jul, 2009

Just found Tumblr.. Using it to receive various Twitter RSS feeds.. Propagation baby!

Great site.

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Kevin
16 Sep, 2009

Nice themes! i just started using tumblr and made my first layout.

http://www.jaxster.tumblr.com

hope you like it!

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M.
20 Oct, 2009

http://www.bubcakes.tumblr.com/

Follow me ;D

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iCharrisse
25 Oct, 2009

I have a tumblr and a twitter. I both use them for blogging. I use my twitter for short blogging while tumblr is for a ‘real’ and long blogging purposes, and for posting my ideas.

Follow me on twitter
http://twitter.com/iCharrisse

Follow mo on tumblr
http://ihaveablog.tk

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kenkyan
1 Dec, 2009

nice themes!

Follow me! kenkuyukot.tumblr.com

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Jay
12 Jan, 2010

These themes are hardly amazing, just the same bs posted on Tumblr site. Themes are also pretty pointless unless you are some leet coder, because most of them have lots of bugs. :(

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