How NOT to design a default theme

Have fun thinking backwards while you learn about the design of the WordPress Twenty Twelve theme.

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1. How NOT to design a default theme
2. Carl Jacobi
3. Invert, always invert (man muss immer umkehren)
4. Don’t sketch and share ideas
5. Ignore the work done before you
6. Don’t make WordPress look like a CMS
7. Don’t use a grid
8. Use lots of color and texture
9. Disregard the theme customizer
10. Forget about mobile devices
11. Create a mobile theme
12. Don’t use percentage based widths
13. Don’t use the rem (root em) unit
14. No CSS3 gradients
15. Don’t use web fonts
16. Choose a fancy font with a limited character set
17. Pre-processing is for wimps
18. Don’t get any help from the community
19. twentytwelvedemo.wordpress.com