I had noticed a question for which responses are now closed that asked about changing the color of the notepad part of the Notepad theme. If anyone else is interested, here's how I did it with the CSS updgrade.
Use the links and information provided in the 4th response here: http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/change-notepad-theme-colors-custom-css?replies=5
You will also need to use the footer image:
http://s0.wp.com/wp-content/themes/pub/notepad/img/footer.png
Save the three images (header, footer, wrapper) and change the colors. I used MS Paint (it helps to view the image at 400% or 800%).
Save the images to your blog, then replace the xxx in the parentheses here with the URLs of the new images:
#header {
background:url('xxx') no-repeat center bottom;
}
#wrapper {
background:url('xxx') center 5px;
}
#footer {
background:url('xxx') no-repeat center top;
}
You can use CSS to change the other font colors to match. Wallah! This is how mine looks: