How NOT to design a default 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