Thanks for taking the time to review the theme – I really appreciate the comments.

- I wanted to get rid of universal navbars, mainly as an experiment. I rarely use them and I wonder how often other users do – they offer an often irrelevant range of options that have little to do with what the reader is doing at any given moment in time. Ideally, readers would find something they want to read, read it and then be lead through the site. That’s my experience of sites I’ve enjoyed. There’s still work to be done on this: some more links to related stuff at the bottom of posts would be a good idea.

- JN says search boxes are important and they need to be placed in a familiar location. And what JN says goes! (Even if the research is 8 years old)

- I know browsers aren’t great at justifying, but I just like the blocky effect it provides. It just seems to work not–too–badly with Georgia, or at smaller font sizes.

—Leon

I like the whitespace and the balance in the theme. A original idea to use the breadcrumb as post title. Readability and color use is simple but good, I especially like the use of yellow.

As said in your post, you use contextual links for additional navigation. But when other people want to use the theme they might want to have additional navigation at the left side bar.

The structure is well thought out, but I would place the search at the bottom (I find myself rarely using the search box at a blog). Have you tried left-align for the body text?

Overall: Great Theme!

Good luck!