Neon is a contained theme which features animated floral features and other decorative elements, creating a maximalist, scrapbook-like design — Perfect for those who want a more artistic blog theme!

You can view the alternate preview here.

Tutorials

This page provides an overview of all customisation options. For step-by-step help on how to customise specific elements of the theme, please see the tutorials below:

• Tutorial 01: Adding Custom Links & Pages

Features

OVERALL

• Centralised contained theme.
• Choose a main accent colour that is seen throughout the theme. It’s straightforward to customise the rest of the theme appearance.
• Customised scrollbar, text highlight, hover tooltips. You can edit the bold, italic, and linked text formatting.
• Many decorative elements.
• Flower elements scattered across the theme. Can make them animated or non-animated, and there are three different petal shapes.
• Up to five featured tags.

SIDEBAR + PROFILE

• Sidebar image. Automatically cropped and centered.
• Three “sidebar short intro phrases” which give you space to write three points about yourself; they have hover effects.
• Quote below the sidebar image.
• Simple and elegant navigation icons. Can display message, askbox, and submit icons (if enabled) through a sliding animation. Built-in searchbar hidden via a smooth sliding animation. Can show follow button in navigation icons too.
• User profile features your avatar, a mini update icon, another title, username, description, and your custom links.
• 15 choices for your custom link icon.

POSTS & CONTENT

• Pinned posts are highlighted and a pin icon is shown in the post header.
• Three post styles available: 1 column 500px, 1 column 400px, and 2 column 250px.
• Every post type is uniquely styled.
• Customised tag pages and search pages.
• Jump pagination is at the bottom of all your posts.

Theme Options

IMAGE OPTIONS

• Background image: Could be a repeated background or a wallpaper. If wallpaper, remember to toggle the “Wallpaper Background” option below.
• Favicon: The lil’ icon that goes into your browser tab. If you upload a custom favicon here, you need to toggle the “Custom Favicon” option below.
• Sidebar image: Will be automatically cropped and centered to fit the space.

SELECTION OPTIONS (selected options in this preview indicated by an asterisk*)

• Main Font: Karla* / Nunito / Ubuntu / Poppins / Open Sans / Roboto
• Custom Links Icon: Signpost* / Apps / Open book / Bookmark / Contacts / Controls / Floppy disc / Gift / Link / Map / Menu / Notes / Pencil / Pin / Quotation mark
• Big Title Text Direction: Horizontal* / Vertical
• Flower Rotation Speed: No spin / Fast / Default* / Slow
• Flower Petal Shape: Default* / Pointed / Rounded
• Status Icon: Active* / Update / Inactive / Options / Pencil
• Post Size: 500px (1 column) / 400px (1 column) / 250px (2 column)*
• Photo Lightbox: light* / dark
• Photoset Grid Gap: 0px / 3px / 5px* / 10px
• List Style: Roman numerals / Hiragana* / Numbers / Alphabets
• Shorten Note Count: 24,351 notes / 24k notes*
• Tumblr Controls: White* / Grey / Black

ON/OFF TOGGLES (Selected options in brackets)

• Wallpaper Background (off): Turn on if you want to stretch your Background Image over the full background.
• Custom Favicon (off): Turn on if you want to upload your own custom favicon.
• Show Status Icon (off): Turn on to have an icon appear in the “orbit” of your avatar, and hover over it to show a special status message.
• Show Follow Button (on): Adds a follow button to your blog navigation icons.
• Show Message Button (on): Adds the message button to your blog navigation icons.
• Content Box Shadow (on): Adds a box shadow to your sidebar image and the content window, the colour will be your accent colour but translucent.
• Show Captions on Index (off): Turn on to show captions on the index page. Captions will appear as normal on permalink pages.
• Permalink Show Day of Week (off): Shows “Monday”/”Thursday”/etc at the top of each post.
• Permalink Show Time (on): Show the time of posting at the top of each post.
• Show Tags on Index (off): When on, tags are visible at the bottom of posts. Tags are always visible on permalink pages.

TEXT OPTIONS

• Browser Tab Title: The name of the browser tab.
• Blog Title Cappuccicon: Go to cappuccicons and pick your favourite icon. Paste the icon name here (e.g, “pancake” or “shell-o”) and that icon will go next to your blog title.
• Profile Title: The title that appears in your user profile, net to your avatar.
• Big Title: This is the text that appears to the right of the main content window. Keep it short.
• Status Message: The message that appears when you hover over the status icon next to your avatar. Make sure you first enable the “Show Status Icon” option first.
• Sidebar Quote: This quote goes under your sidebar image. A scrollbar will appear if it gets too long, but it looks nice when there is no scrollbar.
• Short Intro ½/3: These are the short floating phrases that are overlain on top of your sidebar image. Keep them short.
• Featured Tag ½/¾/5: Add up to five featured tags that float above the main window content.

Credits

• Sidebar image by jellykobi
• cappuccicons by suiomi
• feather icons by Cole Bemis
• iconsax icons by vuesax, adapted into icon font by glenthemes
• NPF images fix v3.0 by glenthemes
• Griddery v2.0 by glenthemes
• photosets.css by annasthms & eggdesign
• customaudio.js by annasthms
• Style-my-Tooltips by malihu
• Truncate note counts by shythemes