Esquire is a free Tumblr theme by Matthew Buchanan, inspired by the art direction of Esquire magazine and released 18 March 2009 under Creative Commons. It features support for custom theme colours, followers list, post notes, and social network affiliations.

To install the theme on your Tumblr site, copy the contents of esquire-theme-1-4.txt into the Custom HTML field of the Customize area on your Tumblr Dashboard.

My sincere thanks to Peter Asquith for building the zig-zag quote script after I mentioned it on Twitter , and to Tim van Damme for allowing me to use and slightly modify his gorgeous social networking icons (there’s 10 available in the theme file).

Email feedback to hello at my domain name, and drop a tip in the jar if you like it.

Update: Version 1.4 of the theme file supports Tumblr’s new boolean and text tags for easy control of social media links, etc.