General design
This WordPress theme has a classic design and simple, minimalistic style. All the elements of this theme are built from straight lines, looking very straightforward. The masonry structure does a good job of gathering all the posts in a neat and organized way. Looking closely at the style of every single post on the homepage, I like the way the author puts the title and the post's information like this. This is aimed at making the design less boring.
Design of the archived post page
Other elements
To follow the classic style of this theme. the author uses grey, black and white colors. Sometimes, the orange parts like button and the hyperlink are added to make the highlight. In general, all the colors get well with each other, and they are really comfortable to my eyes.
The Play-fair Display and Oxygen are the 2 font types used here. The large and bold Play-fair Display emphasizes the heading while the Oxygen helps the body content legible. They are also the safe choice for a website that oriented to the classic and elegant style.
To make up for the simple header, the full-screen slider and header play an important role to attract people. In the demo, the author just uses 1 slide on the homepage so you will see a static image. The title is put on a box with a read more button to encourage people to explore this post.
Header and slider
Under the slider is the hero content. Only the page title and the whole content of this page are shown, no featured image of the page here. I think that it's a disadvantage as people are likely to find a post with a featured image more interesting.
Hero content
On the single post page, the featured image replaces the position of the slider. This large, full-screen image is again, acts as a dramatic attraction of the page.
Other factors like sidebar and footer columns look nice. All the widgets are well-organized and tidy. Lastly, there is a scroll up button on the right of the website. The existence of this button is necessary to help people quickly scroll up to the top.
Responsive
This theme is almost friendly to all devices. I mean that the design in different devices is good and reasonable except for one small mistake: When I use this WordPress theme in my smartphone with 316x570 pixels, the orange box on the header image is partially covered. You can see the responsive design here, using ami.responsivedesign.is.
the responsive design checked by ami.responsivedesign.is
