I finally got around to make some improvements to the colors Octopress uses by default. I went with a much lighter color palate because I couldn’t stand the default Octopress colors.

I tweaked some of the styles as well. I moved the post date to the right of the post title so it doesn’t take up as much room vertically and flows with the post a little better. I tightened up the spacing between posts and paragraphs as well as shrinking some of the font sizes in order to give the design a tighter feel.

I wish a designer would pitch in a little time and come up with an actually attractive default design for Octopress. I think that would make using it more appealing to those of us who are design challenged.