General design
This theme uses the content-box layout: individual content like header, posts, sidebar, footer are put in individual boxes. That layout helps the whole design really straightforward, clear and neat.
Especially, the frequent use of icons helps to convey the content in a brief and creative way. They also make the theme less boring and more lively.
Other elements
Apart from the white background and black texts - the traditional and safe choice for a website - this theme has blue as the main color for other elements. The blue gives the sense of being calm, peaceful and cool.
There are 2 family fonts: Sans-serif and and Open sans . They are basic, simple and readable so it can deliver a comfortable reading experience.
As the name "Simple Life", every elements are made to be very straightforward, giving me a feel that they are quite "modest" and elegant. For example, the header takes a small place, even the header image looks relatively "humble". But overall, they are well-arranged and gives the reader a pleasant feeling.
Header
The footer, similarly, very clean and clear. I'm very pleased with the arrangement of the footer and header as they are very symmetrical with the body content.
Footer
On the archived post page, the posts are displayed in grid structure. This is the default structure but you have many options to change the style of it. For example, you can show the full post or excerpt, choose different size for the archived image, hiding the image or change the text alignment. But after all, I still prefer the default layout as the demo. It's by far the most reasonable and beautiful layout.
The individual widgets in the sidebar are put on the individual tabs, boosting the neatness of the design. It can also be changed, from the right sidebar to the left sidebar or no sidebar. I think that the position of the sidebar doesn't have much impact on the layout as it's still nice. Even when you hide the sidebar, the body content can be more prominent.
As for the post on the single page, I find all the elements are well-organzied and the line spacing is quite adequate to read. But in my opinion, I wish the size of texts could be changed to be bigger to be more legible.
Single post page
Responsive
In different devices, this theme is designed to be displayed properly and nicely. I use it on my laptop, PC, tablet, and smartphone and see no mistake at all. You can see the responsive design checked by ami.responsivedesign.is.
The responsive design checked by ami.responsivedesign.is.
