Say hello to Piano Black, the newest theme to launch on WordPress.com. This dark and elegant theme showcases your content with a design that feels sophisticated yet techy and modern.
Make it yours with a header image, background, and custom menu, and optional RSS and Search areas in the header. Piano Black also includes a full-width-template for dropping the sidebar on pages. See more information on the Theme Showcase.
Designed by mono-lab — and a long-time popular theme for self-hosted WordPress blogs — Piano Black is available now in your dashboard under Appearance → Themes.
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Wow, I actually might use this one next time.
This is a great theme. I love it. It is simplistic, but elegant. The theme team have really out done themselves. I’m gonna make one of my blogs into this theme!
That’s a really fine theme for special blogs.
Love this kind of theme. Minimal.
Cool theme… I hate the font choice though. I think a more serif-type font would be better. It just clashes for the sharpness of the colors and the softness of the font choice (don’t mind me I love serif fonts LOL).
Hi Lotus, you can change the fonts for this theme, and any WordPress.com theme, with the Custom Design upgrade.
Excellent work! I absolutely love dark themes as I believe they are easier on the eyes.. .and this one is perfect!
I very much like this theme. Good job, guys!
Dear WordPress: I love your site, but all your new themes seem to look the same. I chose a more artistic theme for my site. I’d like to see more artistic themes being offered. What do you think?
We’re continuing to launch more and more themes, of all kinds of styles. If you have any ideas for themes you’d like to see on WordPress.com we’d love to hear them in our themes forum: https://wordpress.com/forums/forum/themes.
It looks beautiful, but not clean.
Such a great formal schemata! Would be lovely for a simple zen presentation…
Great black theme for professional use especially music-themed blogs. 🙂
Very attractive theme… great work!
Cool black! Expecting more awesome themes from you.
I’m using this theme and I love it. It’s perfect for vibe of my site. Thanks for making such a cool theme!
Maybe it’s the time to change my theme!
Dark and simple. Nice.
Very nice! Simple and elegant!
I may be black but sorry I am staying white! Good looking though.
Very nice and simple – however I love the theme that I am currently using. Excellent work however!
I recently got a compliment on the way my blog looks with this theme by a friend of mine who is a web designer. He said that this theme was the best so far. It works well with my music themed blog. Great Job. I’m glad this theme is available!!!
Exactly what I’ve been looking for. This one gives my blog a very professional look and feel. Thank you!!
Very cool.
Very nice for a ‘style’ blog.
I like how simple it is. Not distracting to look at.
This is really simple, but I like it.
This theme is really nice, but like a couple of you said, “I like my current theme more” as well. 🙂
Very simple and clean. Love it!
This is an awesome theme! It totally classes up the place.
Wow, cool! I was looking for such a thing.
Yay, black! And it’s free!
I could not find one that I like but there it is!!! 🙂
I love the combo of simplicity with dark classic colors. This theme is a winner!
I’m new here and Piano Black’s been the first to catch my eyes in the theme section. Adore elegant simplicity!
Sleek and elegant!
Love it! Great job guys!
Lovely, it’d work well on a photo blog too!
An elegant and simple theme. Enjoyable, but I shall make do with Vostok.
This theme is good, great job!
Splendid! This is what I was searching for… Thank you Lance. 🙂
I hate it when I like a theme but it doesn’t fit my blog! Great job.
Finally a new theme in black. Love the design and modern look.
Cool theme. Good work. I personally like dark themes over light ones.
Awesome theme! 🙂
Love the theme! Just changed it for my music site! Check it out. 🙂
Great theme! Saw it today, and had to put it up right-away… 🙂
Well, it’s elegant and simple. But it doesn’t look like a piano.
This is such a great design! Luv it! It would be great if we could customize the color of the background!
Great news, roniel—you can customize the color of the background: from Appearance → Themes if you want to add a background image or color.
Finally a stylish dark theme. (Thank you, please keep ’em coming! Some people serious eye issues with the straight white most WordPress.com themes use, which is why I left WordPress.com in favor of Tumblr.)
We do have quite a few dark themes now: http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/colors/dark/. In some cases, the screenshot there is white, but if you look at the theme options you’ll see the dark color scheme as an option, like with Twenty Eleven.
Looks great! I like it!