Helium brings to you the fun of gradients, circles, and stripes! Rounded corners and iconography are everywhere in this theme, and smooth transitions help to tie everything together to create a seamless experience. This theme also includes an exclusive Updates pop-up to share more about what’s up in your life.

THE BASICS

• Simple and clean theme, jam-packed with plenty of smooth transitions.
• Uses CSS gradients, shapes, and patterns, so they are all customisable to your liking and theme.
• Updates pop-up window that is summoned by clicking the pushpin icon () on the top right below Tumblr blog controls. Update your followers about what’s going on in your life.
• Features clean iconography by Perxis.

SIDEBAR

• Sidebar on left, with decorative circles and patterns.
• Animated circles float around your sidebar image, bringing life and a point of interest to your blog. (These can be removed in options if undesired)
• This theme supports built-in custom links and pages. Visit this tutorial to learn how to implement them!
• Sidebar images will be automatically resized to have 1:1 aspect ratio, so it will be a circle.

POSTS & CONTENT

• Supported post sizes: 400px | 500px | 540px | 700px
• Decorative circle shapes and patterns around your posts. Check out the hover effects on link and text posts too.
• Tags on index page are revealed upon clicking the tag () icon.
• Square bullets for unordered lists; ordered lists have a few different options including Hiragana and lower roman numerals (details below).

These are options that can be easily toggled on/off or selected from a range of options from your tumblr theme customiser.

• Post Size: 400px / 500px / 540px / 700px
• Tumblr Controls: White / Gray / Black (These are the blog controls (Follow/Reblog/etc) at the top right of your blog. They are typically hidden until you hover over the gear icon ()).
• List Style: Roman numerals (Default) / Hiragana / Numbers / Alphabets (For ordered lists)
• Photoset Lightbox: White / Black (When you click on photos in photosets, and when you open your Updates window pop-up, the rest of your blog will be blurred in either white/black).
• Grayscale Posts (on/off): When on, posts will appear slightly monochrome (40%) until you hover over the post.
• Sidebar Animated Circles (on/off): When off, removes the animated circle decorations from your sidebar.
• Sidebar Striped Circle Background (on/off): When off, removes the striped circle background from your sidebar

• Sidebar Shows Searchbar First (on/off): When on, the searchbar is seen under the blog navigation in your sidebar, and the menu icon () will need to be toggled for your blog custom links to show up. When off, the custom links appear first by default and it’s the searchbar that needs to be toggled.
• Updates Window (on/off): When on, adds the pushpin icon () to the top right of your blog for users to click on and summon a pop-up with more information about what’s going on in your life.

All text options in this theme are to update the Updates Window. For more information, please visit this tutorial.