General design
The classic and straightforward design of this theme can be seen in the straight lines and blocks. The author also uses short lines to decorate and separate each part frequently. You can't find any curve lines used in the design at all. Plus, I really like the way they put the content box on the feature image like this. That draws my eyes to it and make it less boring, more creative.
The design makes it look more creative
Other elements
The main colors belong to the classic tone: black, white and light grey, look both elegant and eligible. I love the grey background, which is in contrast with the white color of the content boxes to ease my eyes while reading. This combination can dramatically enhance the reading proficiency.
The use of background color
To highlight some special parts like buttons and hover, the author uses the red color, looking so energetic.
The default fonts are Lora and Roboto, the popular fonts for a website. They are really effective to read in a lengthy post.
BlogSlog has a full-screen header image. The images are made faded to highlight the title and menu. I really love this design as I find in some other theme, the header image is mixed with the title, looking so glitzy. The full-screen header images are available on every page, even the featured image of the single post is displayed here, making your website so attractive.
The header
The footer is also full-width in a separated area. This area looks more smooth and airy without dividing lines between each line.
The footer area
This theme has a homepage to display some featured sections. All the sections here look "open" and extensive. For example, the 4 posts in the "List article section" are full-width, and the "About section" is very large to encourage people to read more.
"List article section"
As you see, the homepage has no sidebar to concentrate on the featured post. It just appears on the right of other pages and single post pages. Each widget is put on a white box, follow the core style of the theme: clean and tidy.
Posts in the archive post page are put in individual boxes, which is to make it look super clean and neat. But I found that if the content in each box is different, the size of the box is different as well. That leads to unbalance like this:
On the single post page, the line spacing is adequate, look "flow" and nice, there is nothing to complain about.
Responsive
After using this theme in the different devices: laptop, PC, tablet and smartphone, I see no mistake at all. In every device, the design of this theme is okay and flexible to fit with each kind of screen. You can see the example in the test using ami.responsivedesign.is
Responsive design