The line-height is set at 24px for paragraph text, but somehow the text looks quite cramped compared to headings. If neither are available, Arial, Helvetica or a sans-serif font will be displayed.īody font size is the same as Twenty Sixteen – 16px or 1 rem. Twenty Seventeen uses the Libre Franklin Google font, with Helvetica Neue as the main fallback font. Scrolling up and down highlights the parallax scroll effect on the image. On tablet and mobile, Twenty Seventeen looks like this: there is the option to use a fullwidth video background instead of an image. WordPress has jumped upon the popular trend of themes with full-screen images.Īs we’ll discover later. When installed on a fresh site, Twenty Seventeen looks like this on desktop: It’s intended to have more of a business focus than the previous yearly themes released with WordPress.

( user? Twenty Seventeen became available on on 13 April 2017.)

Twenty Seventeen was designed by Mel Choyce of Automattic. I decided to take a deep dive into what it can do. This theme is designed more for business than bloggers. WordPress 4.7 has just been released with the new Twenty Seventeen theme.

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