Today we are introducing an elegantly designed and typographically pleasing theme, Château.
Designed by Ignacio Ricci, Château has been crafted with close attention to detail and typography. Its beautiful, minimalist look allows you to make your content the focal point of your blog.
Aside from a brilliant design, this theme offers many cool features that help you to personalize your blog. There are two color schemes, three layout options, custom accent color, Custom Header Image, Custom Background, six widget areas, and three post formats — Aside, Gallery, and Image. It’s loaded with options that make the theme flexible enough to fit a variety of sites.
Read all about Château’s features on the Theme Showcase.
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Very, very beautiful!
Fancy… (:
This is so lovely and classy. A very regal feeling. So nice, I just might have to use it. Great job : )
great 😀
Excellent theme Takashi, Very Impressive..!
nice template
wow I like this one alot! Great for my travel posts!
I agree that the template is rather elegant. I would select it for sure if I were into a classical, serene niche. I’m viewing it from my mobile and I can help thinking that it would be perfectly suited for a church, monarchy, wine and cheese or wedding. Seems so laid back, quiet and soothing!
Hi – forgive my lack of knowledge (ergo my question)… – but can i find this theme available for self-hosted blogs? i was looking for this theme from the “install themes” but couldn’t locate it. any guidance for this lost-in-space-but-so-in-love-with-this-theme? many thanks.
Unfortunately, this version of Chateau is not available for self-hosted WordPress blog at the moment. Hopefully it becomes available soon so please keep an eye on it
I love this. This is a truly a simple, elegant theme. Keep ’em coming!
BEAUTIFUL! thank you once again WP!
Hello, I find this theme very interesting. I am between this one and Twenty eleven, what do you think? can you advice on this? thank you very much, congratulations for your fine work.
I too like this theme a lot. I am new to WP.com (used wp.org several times) and just happened to sign-up the day this was released. I was drawn to it right away.
The only issue I have is the the Date Font doesn’t display all that clearly in the “Light” scheme, except with FireFox. Chrome/IE the font is choppy looking. On the Dark scheme it looks fine.
Because of the Font issue I checked out all the other Free themes and none grabbed me the way Chateau did. I opted for the Light mode with an off-white background image. Still looks great in FireFox, but is a little jagged in IE. (All the more reason for people to abandon IE!!!)
Anyway, LOVE IT.
wonderful…i like it
I am thoroughly enjoying this theme. I have it in dark, which is different from what is pictured above, and I chose a picture of a California sunrise instead of the original header image, and I have to say, it looks FANTASTIC with the original fonts.
I LOVE this–but I would need to have an option to hide my blog title–I already have it in my header image and it makes the space at the top too big and clunky if I don’t remove it. Good work, thank you!
Thanks for your feedback. Actually this is one of post-launch enhancement. I will work on this as soon as I can.
Hi ctrlzworld,
Just to let you know Chateau has now an option to hide blog title.
Thanks
I love it!
Pretty cool I spose, kinda bland.
Love the theme. How do you place that symbol over the ‘a”?
The theme does not show up in WordPress theme search from my actual blog and am thinking this is why.
You don’t need to type the accent to find it. Alternatively, if you browse themes in A-Z, Chateau will appear in the second page.
This theme is uber classy!!!
I love this theme! It’s just what I was looking for and the fact you can customise the header is a real bonus! Thank you 🙂
elegant and artistic
Nice…
This elegant theme very much. It’s simple and clean Great work by Ignacio
this is a dope theme…
Absolutely love this theme. Thanks so much!
This theme so classically. Great but not suit for me.
This is not for me, but thanks for the new theme anyway; hope it will keep coming :-)…
*Still waiting/looking for the right theme for photo-blog.
That theme looks awesome, It’s more complex than the Coraline theme that I have..
This IS an elegant theme – one of the few that really lets the images do all the talking. Thank you.
is there anyway to use the detailed option on the home page, I am not a fan of the consise format on the home page
Unfortunately, the format option is only for archive page at the moment, but thanks for your feedback. I will see other users opinion to consider the option.
oo looks cool
I am struck by this theme like no other. Superb! Thank you for your creativity =D
So nice! I see it as a poetry blog than anything, though. x
waaaaw this one is awesome!
Wow very elegant! Let me try it….
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I think I’ll have to leave blogger and switch to wordpress to use this theme. so me! 🙂 thank you so much!
This theme is so awesome, I find myself thinking of blogs I could write that would go best with it instead of the other way around!
Very Nice
This is a very elegant theme; calls for something very special as well as a slightly elevated writing style. You have a wonderful design sense and the black, white, and grey are restful after all the color.
Very nice! I’m so grateful for how quickly you guys roll out free themes!
nice but I’d like more black themes if you don’t mind 🙂
How classy. This calls for a man with a monocle.
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They are so nice,i like it very much！
Very elegant! I like it!
amazing,,,,,,,,
And it’s free too!
I really love this! 🙂
wow template…. i like it.
It looks great! 🙂
Love this theme
I have been waiting for this!
i would love this theme if it had come in the dark background color
It comes with a dark color scheme too. If that’s not dark enough you can customize the background with a darker color.
Oh! Thanks! This is really beautiful theme! I must try it! 🙂
Very elegant theme. Looks extremely appealing for a blog.
Hi Takashi, I thank you for the addition of style for HR tags 🙂 Now I have shifted back to Chateau.
You’re welcome. I’m glad you shifted back to Chateau 🙂
I like the use of black and red… and also the fonts.
A very good free option… thanks
I LOVE this theme, but the home page should have the option of being a ‘regular’ archive page!
It’s a nice one.
Hi Guys
I like it and am switching to it. Should there a top footer area and 5 footer areas below, rather than the 4 areas below with a blank area the size of a footer on the right?
Regards – Dennis
Romantics..
good, thank you!
Love it, changed my theme to this. Perfect for London England.
Nice theme. Very neat and crisp looking.
I would love to try this but I need at least 600 wide for the two column…really prefer 650 or 700! boohoo… I love this look!
LOVE IT! suits me perfectly. thank you soo much
Classy!
I like it and tried it but didn’t last long. The main problem is the font, I really don’t like it and couldn’t change it.
If you would like to change the font, how about considering Custom Fonts? It’s a part of Custom Design upgrade and it allows you to easily add Typekit fonts to your blog!
looks nice…
I am using your theme and I like it 🙂
The first time I see this theme’s name, I thought you was Vietnamese. . . letter ‘â’…
Hi Takashi,
This theme would be perfect if it had a detailed view front page like most other themes! It’s evident from the various comments above that this is a desired option.. help us out and I’ll send you a box of cookies!
Saw this theme yesterday and tried it on the Radio Adelaide Jazz Blog. Suddenly it looks professional and have had comment that the content has improved! If only they knew!!!
Thanks I think we will be sticking with this one for a while.
Elegant…. Love it. When can I start using it :D?
I looked around for a new theme for my photography blog a little while back, and couldn’t find anything I really liked. Then you guys came out with this 🙂 I like it a lot, but it would be really nice if it said “READ PREVIOUS POSTS ” instead of “READ PREVIOUS ARTICLES”, and if you could have a thumbnail of a featured image appear with the little blurb. Still, really nice theme, and I like the “frame” that goes around the images. Good job!
Well done Takashi. Great achievement.
By the way, do you live in Japan?
Beautiful!! Perfect for a long blog post style!
this theme is beautiful..and classic.. 🙂
It look cool 🙂
minimalistic and beautiful 🙂
besr of all, chandelier and windows really chateau-fies it.
Beautiful! Thank you!
Please add navigational links to the end of posts: Previous and Next.
I think this theme is really beautiful!
It’s really nice! Well done 🙂
This is very nice!
i love this. like someone else said too, i feel rather tempted to change my theme to this.
amazing!!!!!
I love the beautiful fonts!
Oooh, loving this one! I think it might just have my name written on it. Gonna give this one a try.
cool
I like font on the head.
That is perfect design.
I want, I want!!!
Wow, really cool. I love it. 😀
Oooh! I like it!! The font is really nice but on the small side. I may try this out!! 🙂
Beautiful theme! The best one yet. I have switched.
Simple and clean… Nice!
very nice ..
Should I decide to change themes (yet again), will definitely try this one first. This is very elegant and suits my needs just fine. Whatever you WP guys eat for breakfast is surely something good if you have created this beauty. Thanks! 🙂
This theme is great! I’m using it right now!