Say hello to Koi, our newest theme. This light and colorful theme provides a beautiful framework for your WordPress.com site with delicate, hand-drawn illustrations and refined typography. The tasteful artwork featured in the header and footer are suggestive of koi, an ornamental fish often considered a symbol of love and friendship.
Enjoy the playful artwork and textured background, or customize the look with a custom background color and image, custom header image*, and custom navigation menu.
Koi’s right-hand sidebar and three footer columns are ready for all your widgets. If no widgets are enabled in the footer widget area, it will not appear.
Designed by Nick La of N.Design Studio, Koi is now available for your WordPress.com site and is coming soon for self-hosted WordPress.org sites.
Quick Specs (all measurements in pixels):
- Main column width is
545, sidebar is266. - Main column width for the single image layout (no sidebar) is
873. - Custom header image dimensions are
980by200(width, height).
* Koi allows both title and description text to be hidden completely from the custom header area.
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Oh that’s pretty – like it!
Beautiful themes! 😀
It looks good.
Quite a pleasant theme.
I still prefer the two Journalist style themes.
This is a truly lovely theme! I love the Asian art and colors.
Beautiful. Just inherited a blog and am looking to change the look. Looking at Bueno but I’m really impressed with the latest additions. Way to go, WP!
Not really my type, but keep on the good work!
Nice theme. 🙂 But, where is the fish? 🙂
GORGEOUS! More like this, please. 🙂
This is different alright! Great work guys!
Very appealing!
Excellent look. The aesthetic is strong and pleasing. I love all the “eye room” you provide in this new theme!
THIS is the theme I didn’t know that I was waiting for! It is beautiful and fun and fits like a favourite little black dress! Thank you for spoiling me WordPress. Viva los art themes!
WOW, I like it! I’ll apply it now to my personal blog.
This is awesome… I might try it. I know the girls will like it. However, I might be more apt to change the background as I am a guy!
Jeepers, this one is different! Have to say i like it, and I’d use it… if i was a girl, blogging about girlish things!
But, alas, it might prove a little too confusing for MY readers, but maybe i can finally get my wife blogging, with this.
Thanks WP, keep em coming – especially them creative ones. Nothing more exciting than new themes!
It’s not my thing but it IS really nice. Thank you for making it available to everyone.
I liked the one before this better. Still using it. Good stuff though. Thanks!
Awesome theme. Very cool.
Wow! I really like it. If the name of my blog wasn’t so closely tied to my theme, I’d change my blog to this one!
I’m loving all these new theme to play with! Koi looks really beautiful.
Wow, really great. This is a departure for WordPress, and an extremely welcome one!
Wow, this is BEAUTIFUL, I love it! Bravo, bravissimo! Keep up the good work with happy coloured themes! YAY.
Very pretty! I love the symbolism behind the name.
I love it!
Very artistic! I like the “custom background” option. Thank you!
Beautiful!
Well done and a big thank you. 🙂
Ooh, I really love the artwork on this one! Can we have more of these, please? 🙂
Nice design!
That’s perfect for my MindlyMatters Blog. I have already taken it. Thanks. Cheers!
Oh my goodness, it’s beautiful! You’re trying your hardest to tear me away from Twenty-Ten, aren’t you? 🙂
I love it, and keep making themes like these! I hate to admit it, but I like the girly ones. But I also would love to see more themes like Greyzed, with a rugged military/apocalypse vibe.
Keep up the fantastic work!
Our goal with new theme launches is definitely not to have everyone switch over to it. Instead, we want to offer great options so that everyone can find a theme that fits them perfectly.
So don’t feel bad or apologize if you are going to stick with your current theme—we think that’s great!
Yay! A pretty, girly, COLORFUL theme! Thank you WP, you’re awesome!
Wow, that’s really nice. Have to give it a go.
I love this theme, very beautiful! Though I am too fond of my current theme to switch over to this one.
OMG, how pretty!
I love it!!
Love the theme and I’m using it! Great job! Even the background goes well with my blog. Really awesome… and thanks! 😛
I don’t like it. Not at all.
Wow, very artsy. Nice work with the layout and design, the hand drawn graphics are a great touch.
Very beautiful and pleasing theme. 🙂
I absolutely LOVE IT! I may switch over from “rounded” to this theme… it’s almost too beautiful to resist.
I love this one! Great job!
Love it!
Wow, very artistic! Honestly not my style but still this is a beautiful theme! Especially the header and footer! Thanks. 🙂
Very pretty!
Love the theme! This is the girly theme other bloggers were looking for. I love the art work and custom background.
Keep up the good work!
Oh, very pretty!
WOW! Love the header and footer! Perfect accent to the background.
I love it, it looks chic! I’m using it already. Congratulations great job!
Wow, that’s gorgeous! Well done.
Whoa, I really love this theme… I’m almost tempted to change from my beloved Cutline now!
Thanks for the very attractive theme with customizable features.
Oh-m-geeee! Such a pretty theme! Oh, we do need a lot more of this type. Pretty ❤
Think I’ll get it!
Love it!
Love it!
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Now you’re doing much better! I like it.
A very beautiful WordPress theme, especially the color. Nick La is amazing.
He is an amazing designer. We launched another of his gorgeous themes, Notepad, last month.
GORGEOUS! Best one so far — congrats!
It looks great! 🙂
Just beautiful!
I have been waiting for this for ages! Awesome, thanks!
Fabulous, beautiful. If I hadn’t just changed my theme, I’d switch again. But I’m going to go and try it on for a few minutes….
I like the Koi. In aestethic terms. It appeals to the artist in me.
Hey Lance! This theme renders a peaceful pace when you look at it. Keep them coming, Theme Team! Thanks very much! Cheers!
Very pretty–but I hope people customize it so the blogs don’t all look the same.
I think this is one of the most beautiful themes that you offer! Wow!
I like this new theme. I might try it one of these days.
I totally love it! I already know my new theme.
I love that you’re beginning to offer more themes that have background images/patterns/colors that still have some flexibility for personalization. Thank you!
Thanks to all of you for the incredible support you provide. Gorgeous work!
Gorgeous but can’t use it. Keep going people, I can’t wait to see what’s next. 🙂
Very nice! I have to say I’m not a fan of having the widgets at the bottom of the page — I prefer them on the side as you scroll down — but the theme has nice aesthetics.
As I mentioned in the post—the footer widget area is empty unless you explicitly enable widgets for it.
I switched to it immedately! I love it!!!
Lovely; have switched to it immediately.
Love it. Gorgeous.
I LOVE IT! Soooo much better than recent “minimalist” gray, cold themes that have been coming out… love it.. Very warm, and seems easy to navigate. Will change to it immediately! (Still waiting for a horse-related theme though… :D)
Really a beautiful theme!
Very inspiring and individual, procures a light and happy—but also thoughtful—with some kind of draft. Amazing work! 😀
How lovely! I would totally consider this look if I were on the hunt for a new theme. 🙂
Is there a way to change the font color as well? When using a darker background image the font color gets lost. 😦
Sephani: only the background color can be changed for this theme. Based on the way the theme is designed, it’s best to use a lighter background color since the text is dark.
I LOVE IT. *Jumps up and down and tries not to squeal with excitement.*
This is so awesome. I am using it for my tea blog already. The design works very well with the worm, peaceful but colorful and lively looks and feel of tea theme. Just looking at it makes me happy. Thanks very much!
Beautiful! Guess I’ll try it. 🙂 Thanks!
Stunning! What else can I say? Thank you, guys!
Aw, after Notepad now Koi. Great! But I’m still waiting for Modern Clix!
Hi Earl — what do you like about Modern Clix?
Nice… love it. 🙂
Pretty. Keep up the good work.
Now that’s a lovely Asian theme.
This could be handy for our Costa Rica Artificial Reef Project site. With a tad bit of color change it would be totally oceanic. Condofish is using “Bueno” right now and it’s working well. I’m always looking for something new though.
Wow! Cool theme!
If the color of the background is tweakable, and you change it to something dark, will it change the whole page and simply place the (lovely) illustrations on top of the new color, or will the new color only change in the post’s backgrounds, with the peachy color around it? 🙂
If you just change the background color, the illustrations will still appear but the color will fill all the rest: post background, page background, header, footer.
If you you upload a background image, the illustrations will disappear and the entire background will use the image you upload (depending on the settings you choose for tiling, repeating, et cetera).
I’m using this for my Nihongo blog.
Nick is very talented… I’ve liked his work for awhile now.
Wow, pretty!
Yeah, I love it. An ornamented oriental theme! Is it inspired by an instrumental music titled ‘koi’? 🙂
Elegant!