I’ve praised the new Wordpress admin theme in the past, but I’ve found a theme called Fluency that is so cool, I just have to show you. I first saw it at MUO when posting and it looks breathtaking. It has a darker approach, but I wouldn’t say the design has a dark feeling. In fact, I think it’s a lesson in design, since the only color type used is gray, and not even hundreds of shades, just about 5-6. It’s amazing that someone can create such a beautiful, simplistic, yet useful theme, out of just 5 shades of one color.

The biggest change you’ll see is that all menu options are now in a left side menu bar, which seems a bit more logical and drastically more contrasted, so you can find stuff more easily. Sub menus show up on the top, again in a tasteful, and very usable way. I know I’m ranting on and on about this too much, but this theme is so damn good.

I haven’t taken a very in-depth look, but it uses css a lot, so it should be customizable in the right hands. I may try and make it a bit more green to fit Hack Your Day later on, but right now I have it installed on my personal Ideas blog, which has a darker theme anyway. Since you just activate it as a plugin I really do recommend this, if you don’t like it, just deactivate and that’s it.