This theme is really, really good. I like the elimination of the stupid header images that no one used and the greater focus on type and large images. This theme, more than the other twenties is really a good starter. It comes with all the support you'd expect and not a ton of layout-related styling. I could actually see myself using this as a base to edit in the future.
It is really good. I switched to it late last night, from one of the "premium" themes. I still need to tweak/optimize a bit (particularly the sidebar), but I'm really happy so far.
There are a lot of little details I keep finding which were a big improvement for me (author pages in particular).
I'm interested to see the designer for this theme is none other than Drew Strojny, founder of the company behind The Theme Foundry.
His backstory is remarkable — he was an offensive tackle selected in the 2004 NFL Draft. Really. You can hear him tell the story in an episode of Founders Talk:
Very nice, but not quite enough distinction between different post types for my liking. Reading the blog page[1] I couldn't help but feel the Quote and Image post types blended into the full post above... I'd darken the separator lines slightly.
Love it otherwise, will definitely use on projects!
#edit: Just realised it has a kickass gallery viewer. Sold! [2]
#edit 2: Gallery viewer screws up on latest Chrome/mac when scrolling the page up and down to view comments. Bummer.
Finally. I've been waiting ages for Wordpress to come to their senses and remove the header images because nobody used them anyway. Easily one of the nicest and best Twenty-something Wordpress themes by far, really aesthetically pleasing.
It will be packaged with WordPress 3.5, which is slated to be released around early December.
It's probably called Twenty Twelve because (1) they're trying to be optimistic about the 3.5 release date and (2) the theme was meant to be included with 3.4, but didn't get done in time.
It's better than the old theme, but the PHP code is still a mess, like the whole codebase of WP in general. For example, there's lots of duplication in the HTML in many templates. The functions.php still uses lots of global functions with long_underscored_functions_with_prefixes instead of a simple class with short method names.
I'm not certain if this is ready for the public. When I visited the demo site with Chrome for ICS there were rendering errors with the bottom bar. http://www.imgur.com/WVKzi.png
Chrome for ICS and the standard browser on Android 3.x never rendered my site correctly [1][2], especially segments containing code (they were completely misplaced)
I wasn't able to reproduce the error on any other platform, iOS, Opera for iOS, Chrome on the desktop, and off course not on FireFox, Safari, and IE...
