In reply to Chris High.

Hey folks,

Nice writeup on Anders! It’s refreshing to see so much emphasis being placed on design lately.

To be perfectly honest, Chris isn’t the first person to point out to me that Anders’ themes may have been inspired by some of my work. While they are not exact copies, it’s also not hard to see that there are more than a few similarities to be a coincidence. ;)

For example, Baskerville, which looks like Publisher (http://cl.ly/Xaxr), even has some of the same demo content and post titles. I would also agree that Hoffman and Fukasawa have notable similarities between Pocket and Designer.

I’m definitely not calling out Anders or trying to create any waves here. He seems to be a creative young lad and I’m sure he’ll do very well in the WordPress space. But because it has been brought to my attention, I thought I should probably acknowledge it.

“Also, by not being dependent on my themes for income, I can keep building the themes I want to make rather than the ones I think people would pay for.”

One note about this quote is that some folks, including myself, *are* entirely dependent on themes and their uniqueness for income. Design is my bread and butter, and it’s my job to make themes I want to make that also happen to be ones people will pay for. And because of this, you could see why myself and others might take note of notably similar themes being downloaded for free by potentially hundreds of thousands of people. ;)