A minimalist design is not the same as a simple one. There, I said it. Now let me quote Dave Eggers:
What very few designers realize, particularly the younger ones, is that most people would rather read something—actually read the words—than look at all of their lines and arrows and silly pictures they’ve screened back.
When the words finally reach the reader, the designer has, as often as not, rendered them almost unreadable, and so a reader moves on. But we’ve always felt that the words don’t need a whole lot of help—that a piece about searching for tigers in Ireland is not necessarily needing of a picture of tigers or of Ireland, much less blinking or screened-back ones. The words are enough, if the words are good.
I’m sharing some of the best—and, more importantly, interesting—minimalist WordPress themes that are freely available. Many may react to these designs by thinking ways they could have been (or should have been) enhanced, altered, etc., and I think that’s a primary reason so many WordPress users are searching for a “simple” theme.
One note. Minimalism is just one school of design thought. There are plenty of others, each having different strengths and weakness and for different purposes. It’s silly to compare the designs of Google with Kaliber10000 because the objectives of each is completely different. Context is key.
Disclaimer. I haven’t been so obnoxious as to pitch my own themes here (except for right here), but do feel free to have a look the plaintxt.org themes for WordPress. These themes are my attempts at producing some of the best minimalist WordPress themes.
Click on the thumbnail for a larger image and complete theme information.
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Barecity
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White as Milk
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Hemingway Reloaded
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Hiperminimalist
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Simpla
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Way Too Clean
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Man~ja
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Burnfield
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The Simple Life
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Zen Minimalist
If you’re interested, screenshots for these ten themes are available from my The Best Minimalist WordPress Themes, Part 1 set on Flickr. Feel free to use and reuse the screenshots from there anyhow you like.
And if you’re swaying away from minimalism, you might check out SimpleBits Best WordPress Themes.
So what are your thoughts about blog design? Is a minimalist approach appropriate? Sometimes? Never? Share your comments, thoughts, arguments, etc., on minimalism in blog design.
87 Comments
Scott:
Mind if I ask what you would charge me to re-do Blogtxt into an elastic three column format? I need it to remain all white as you have it, and I need some of the feel that Doc Searls has on his site, http://doc.weblogs.com
Just so you know I’m not a flake. I am very serious about needing a theme/format that will work for me. I just moved to a new host, and over to WordPress. I am also going to be importing my weblog over. My timetable is the sooner the better.
email me the info, or a phone number and I’ll call and we can talk.
Thanks–
Mary Lu Wehmeier
hi scott,
i just wanted to thank you for you wp-theme simplr, i use it now for over a month and i’m really happy with it.
thanks alot,
faebser
I’ve just started to use Barthelme today. Thanks for your work on this. I’ve kept some notes on what I changed and, over the next month or so, will see how it works for me. I hope then to be able to make some suggestions for you. For example, I changed the width of the sidebar and the date format already. I’ve migrated from a modified WordPress 1.2 theme so the new separate theme files in 2.0 make life a lot easier. It’s also refreshing to see a simpler theme – many of the blogs I look at are just so cluttered.
It used to be those little sidebar icons that were used in lieu of text links. Now it’s the silly little “Furl me” and “del.icio.us this” icons that occur at the bottoms of posts—posts about the food at lunch or last night’s TV show. Come on. Really.
The best blogs have been and will continue to be the ones that have direction coupled with an interesting and thought-provoking mix of media and text.
Though I honestly like the idea of the weblog-as-diary form. I mean, MySpace, for as ugly as it is, is really quite cool. Ugh, though, I get dizzy looking at pages there.
Scott, I think you’re being a bit too modest here. I’m using veryplaintext for my blog, and I’m absolutely blown away by it and think it’s absolutely one of the 10 best minimalist themes out there.
You can count me as one of your raving fans. Sorry I can’t contribute at this moment in time, but I thank you for your work and want you to know that it’s greatly appreciated.
Can I give you an ad box?
For the last couple of years I actually avoided WordPress simply because the visual aspects (I looked at dozens of live websites) were bad, cluttered, ugly, or broken. Last week I discovered your plaintxtBlog theme; it only took me a day to switch to it and WordPress.
Minimalism is in my nature. Words are powerful, content should rule a text-based website. Thank you for your themes, but more importantly thank you for verbalizing the philosophy of minimalism.
Hi again Scott. I’m am sorry to say that I am no longer using your lovely themes for Wordpress. In fact, I am no longer using WP at all in favor for another CMS (ExpressionEngine). The reason for this is that I decided to go on a little minimalistic design venture of my own (check out the website for the result). I just finished writing the start of a series of writing where I intend to go deeper in the philosophy and appeal of minimalist design. You might consider it a worth-while read. Check it out here.
Thanks for all the inspiration that you have given me with this website, and keep up the good work mate!
Great looking site, Jimmy. Not sure why you changed to EE, which is a fine platform, don’t get me wrong. But that, I suppose, is another conversation. Each to their own, eh?
The site looks great, by the way. Well done.
Thanks mate!
My reasons for changing from trusty Wordpress to EE is a long story, one very contributing factor was EE’s ability to handle more than one content source in it’s webblog functionality (a webblogin the world of EE is only a dynamic container of content, nothing else). By using that, I now have a “main section” where I write all my primary content, and a secondary, dubbed SmallTalk, where i publish, well, the little stuff that arent fully featured articles.
I suppose one could solve that in Wordpress as well, but I cant come to think of a simple and logic way of doing it.
There are many cool things you can do in WordPress, and many of those cool things require quite elaborate contructions to be accomplished.
Good luck with the site. Do stop by often to let us know what’s new.
Great choices, My favorite is simpla. xxx your fellow italian fool
I have always loved White as Milk and your themes, Scott. These are great! I usually bounce between something intricate and then something totally stripped down. Great stuff!
And personally, I dont think minimalist is just about white background with grey border and black text, which i think is the main similiarity shared by all the themes in your showcase above.
Of course, i can be more helpful by pointing you to some links, but it might take a while. That pretty much explains what many perceive as a ‘minimalist’ design, when it shouldnt be necessary so.
Those are good themes. But from a regular users perspective, I think that both Andreas Viklunds 1024px—which I use myself right now—and your own plaintxtblog (which I used before) are better options than Hemingway Reloaded. I understand that you don’t want to list your own themes in the list, but out of curiosity for how a great minimalist theme coder thinks I want to ask how you would rank 1024px and plaintxtblog in relation to your top-ten?
The plaintxtBlog theme has some problems that need to be resolved. I plan to re-release it with WP 2.1, whenever that happens. So I think I would rate my other themes before it.
And I personally don’t care much for 1024px. I don’t like its fixed width and excessive (in my opinion) use of bolding. I like the detail of lines under the post titles, but wonder why the link mouseover for post title links adds yet another underline.
I do like what it does with comments, though, as I think they’re a step in the right direction. It’s a good theme, just not for me.
I can’t say what was in Andreas’ mind when he did 1024px, but I also included a line under post titles in my site AND added the underline on mouseover. My reason for this is simple – many people, especially those not so familiar with the Net, expect to see underlines with links. If they don’t, they don’t necessarily know that its a link that can be clicked. So, the decision between design aesthetic and user needs was a simple one for me.
I call my design (my first for WP) a “minimalist plus”. It’s not one I am releasing, but if you are interested in checking it out I would appreciate feedback.
Well, I got 2 good minimalistic themes too: KISS and Brajeshwar v7.0.
KISS is a lovely theme. I set up a blog for my friend, Anthony, and it’s what I suggested he start with. Not familiar with the other theme, though.
I like the tagline in KISS and its reduced post footer on the main page. The comments form is right on, too. One comment though: please rework the sidebar. Consider Widgets and
h3’s.White As Milk is one of the top 5 best WP themes of all time. hands down.
Go zen go!
Yet another Barthelme fan. You are far too modest–your themes rock, and their support of widgets and the inclusion of an options page is just a bonus.
Nothing beats a minimalist theme for a collector’s website; with no distractions or twinkies, the photos of items in your collection really stand out. People who visit collectors’ sites are looking for information, and a smooth, open layout makes it easy for them to find it. I’ve been using your blog.txt 1.2 right out of the box for one of mine.
Hey, just a quick note to let you know that there’s actually a white version of Hemingway (http://warpspire.com/hemingway) included in the default package (it’s in the Hemingway Options tab, under presentation). I know most people think Hemingway is only white-on-black, but there’s a very attractive black-on-white style as well.
Hemingway Reloaded is currently using some older CSS styles that have bugs (for example, you can’t click the header) and doesn’t have half the features that Hemingway 0.19 has.
@Kyle:
Actually, a lot of these themes are really not extraordinarily well coded, in my opinion. Barecity, for example, is a mess on the inside.
But when I created this list (some time back) I was more interested in their design and its objective(s), and less interested in how they actually functioned or what their features were.
But I’m sure those who are interested in actually using them will find your note helpful. Thanks.
Scott: I completely understand that. I guess I just urge you to check out the white style for Hemingway. It’s almost identical to Hemingway Reloaded (visually), except there are fewer bugs, and more flexibility for the end user.
Oops, I meant left out a not in my comment above. Fixed.
@Kyle: Yes, I’m familiar with Hemingway. It is a fantastic theme, and yes, it definitely works much better the Hemingway Reloaded. But when I thought of this type of layout and what I like about it, this is the theme that came to mind. But kudos to the originator.
I am surprised that for a site that loves minimalism that this text box with live preview is unacceptably slow. I want to WRITE, not preview! Anyway doesnt anyone make a wordpress theme with white on black? isnt that much easier to read than a bright white screen with tiny black letters?
@Tom: Read Kyle’s comment above for your white-on-black theme. And the minimalist design we’re discussing here relates to the visual presentation and its emphasis on the content. I’m interested in design that is content-centric. According to your logical of minimalism = subtraction, there shouldn’t even be comments.
Looking at these samples, I wonder, whatever happened to one-and-a-half alphabets? Use a narrower column or a larger font, please!
@Scott: Not trying to be a troll. I just tried to jot a comment and it was really slow. I almost gave up as I made a lot of spelling mistakes. I am impressed that you were able to gather my logic based on one sentence! Any way is the live comment preview only really slow for me? (seriously it’s slow).
That’s a shame about Barecity being a mess on the inside. I like it a lot and hadn’t seen it before. Currently using plaintxtBlog.
A bit off topic, but related to quite a few themes (especially KISS, blog.txt, and Simplr): It irks me to see “vertical” designs. Everyone’s so concerned about catering to the poor 800×600 folks and such that the people with an 1100px wide browser are staring at GOBS of whitespace as they scroll tirelessly for no good reason.
Great theme. When visiting other blogs, I don’t wantb to waste valuable milliseconds understandingb the layout and finding the page links. I just want to now “where’s the meat”, ease of access to the content paramount.
Great effort on the compilations. This is extremely helpful as oppose to browsing the 800 odd designs on the wordpress theme site, which I find can be a little intimidating sometimes.
Scott, do you have plans to create a new version of your theme Simplr? I’m using Simplr and i very happy with it.
Cheers.
JM.
Hi.. I love this teme, it’s plain and simple.I’m very new to wordpress and still need to learn so much but im looking forward to it
hey, i like all your themes! because the side can be loaded fast. its great for peoples witch slowly internet connections.
Great theme! Giovanni
My and Ivan Minic’s web design shop are responsible for Zen Minimalist (with the tabs at the top). We have tightened the design, made it WP 2.0 ready and it is now available for download here:
http://wpthemes.mytestbed.com/themes/
I would also like to call attention to another minimalist theme we have created, tho with a splash of color at the top and bottom. It is called Blank Stare and it too is available for download at the above link and can be seen in use (with the css tweaked for the holidays) on my personal blog at http://www.joniverse.com.
And PlainTXT — it’s very very elegant! I expect to see it, loud and proud, in the next WP design competition!!
Okay, …, calm down….
I BELIEVE THIS IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THEMES FOR WORDPRESS!!!!!THANKS PLAINTEXT.ORG!!!!!
I m looking for a real clear them for my blog and I got it
Thank !
Hi scott i also found Kiss theme and it is really very good and simple.great work
Exactly what I was looking for, thanks!
I have been using your blog.txt theme for last couple of weeks, after pointless efforts with other themes. What I love about this theme is it’s simplicity (as well as sailing through w3c validation for css and xhtml), and its extensibility. A big round of applause – theme designers too often forget the principles around Wordpress (seperating out your data from design), and your themes certainly adhere to that principle.
Great design! Good work.
Please check out my new theme, Cleaker 2.0 – it’s a beautiful, 3 column WordPress theme – built with semantic XHTML, just like Plantxt….
http://pomomusings.com/design/
Not a Wordpress theme, but a Radiant CMS theme. My blog smpl.se is probably as simple as it gets. But still pretty – at least I think so . . .
Sehr schönes Theme! Gute Arbeit. Machen Sie weiter so.
I am sad you didn’t speak about Brajeshwar. The last time I downloaded the files, I must say that the theme was not at all W3C compliant. But after a short time hacking them, the result is really elegant (you can have a look at my website).
Hi, thank you for your great designs! I’ve slightly modified your theme Plaintextblog and translated it into Russian. You can take a look at it at http://test.clientservice.ru/ or download at http://test.clientservice.ru/files/plaintxtblog-mod.rar
I think that blogi just exactly tot type of sites where minimalizm is acceptable
Great theme. When visiting other blogs, I don’t wantbto waste valuable milliseconds understanding the layout and finding the page links. I just want to now “where’s the meat?”, ease of access to the content paramount.
Those are good themes. “The simple life” is the best.
Nice list of themes here. And thanks for your Flickr set of the Best 10 Minimalist WordPress Themes. I also just released a proxy template and I am right now working on a WOrdpress theme called bonyhen v.1 Hope it will be out soon.
Thanks for the list
Hey!! Cool post/blog and nice list of minimalist blogs!
Thx, was very helpfully!
really nice templates. thanks for sharing!
Great simple themes here. I will be using the Zen Minimalist theme in one of my blogs now. Thanks
>> I dont think minimalist is just about white background with grey border and black text, which i think is the main similiarity shared by all the themes in your showcase above.
Can’t agree more…,
My favourite inspiring theme is the Simpla. Simple is nice!
Wow. Had I found your site earlier I might not have written my CMS theme/template. I was aiming for simplicity, but I think yours is even simpler. You might still want to have a look. I tested it for WP 2.2 already. My theme (which I call a template) works with widgets and without. Greetings, Th
Hey there, kindred soul. I’ve been stuck on minimalist, text-heavy sites for years.
While I’m currently running a handmade WordPress theme based on screen shots of the terrific Hemingway (http://warpspire.com/hemingway), my previous theme is available for download at http://www.ardamis.com/2007/06/03/apricot/ .
My personal favorite blog layout, and IMO the gold standard for minimalism, is Daring Fireball (http://daringfireball.net/).
I like your list. Another that should definitely be added to any revision would be Gilbert Lee’s plainsimple.org It’s perfectly plain.
wait.. I just signed up for wordpress.. but now I can’t figure out how to put these Minimalist designs into it. Do I have to pay to get that feature or something?
These themes are available for download and use with the WordPress.org WordPress. Different than WordPress.com. There, you only have the themes provided.
Hope that clarifies, Sam.
Hi Scott, thanks for your great minimalist design. I like it, and i’m workin’ on it.
Best Regards
Henri
Thanks for themes!
wp-theme simplr is great, i am very impressed… keep up the good work mate!
Way Too Clean – this great themes.. Nice article..
Great list!…i used hiperminimalist before & it worked great!
my favorite is Simpla!
I agree – Simple is beautiful!
Hello, I’ve just started to use Barthelme today. Thanks for your work on this. I’ve kept some notes on what I changed and, over the next month or so, will see how it works for me. I hope then to be able to make some suggestions for you. For example, I changed the width of the sidebar and the date format already. I’ve migrated from a modified WordPress 1.2 theme so the new separate theme files in 2.0 make life a lot easier. It’s also refreshing to see a simpler theme – many of the blogs I look at are just so cluttered.
Hello guys, I’m working since a long time with one of the first Barecity versions and now i have a question. I hope anyone can answer. How can I adjust the heigth of the sidebar of barecity until it reaches the footer. I tried but as an example height:100%; diddn’t made me happy. Sorry for my english, i’m a german i hope u understood.
thanks a lot.
the site is:www.oliverborner.com
just exactly the clean white minimalist themes I’ve been looking for. Glad I got to bump into this site. Hiperminimalist is my favorite of all.
thank you for sharing! my favorite is The Simple Life theme
Boris Bogdanov, thanks for your translation! It helped me a lot! Take care!
Very nice! I’m just starting to setup my website, and I’ve put 2 Wordpress blogs on it (that I’m just starting), but I’ve been very unsatisfied with the Wordpress themes I’ve been finding on the net.
I like these! And I like the ones you’ve done, as well. I like the idea of making the theme highly customizable with CSS, as you’ve done with Sandbox. I’m going to delve into it (and check out these others) this weekend and finally get my blogs looking nice.
Thanks!
Great list! I’ll be adding some of those to my theme site too!
Themes That Don’t Suck!
http://www.themesthatdontsuck.com
Thanks!
Dave Eggers is completely right. A blog is about words – communicating with words to the reader. This means that the number one and most important thing about a blog is typography. There is no doubt about it. If you’re running a blog, typography is important. If you’re running a portal or something else, then maybe pictures are important (although, I would argue that typography is still very important there). Too many designers think Typography is not important for designing – they are totally mislead with that.
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Too bad B3 didn’t make the list – also known as “Bare”. Good examples tho.
White as Milk has got to be my favorite. It’s clean, SEO friendly and professional looking.
It’s a Nice Theme.
Here is more Wordpress Themes
I just wanted to note that you point out at the end of your post where to find non-minimalist themes. You mention they come from SimpleBits, when in fact your link goes to SilentBits – just a heads up.
I would like to have a very minimalist blog visually. I may even forgo images altogether and try to do it with only text. I’ve seen several examples of minimalist themes done correctly, and I am drawing inspiration from these. My favorite theme so far has been Skimmed Milk by Thortz
Simpla has to be my favorite but the font sizing is really tiny and messed up in high-resolution for article entries. I’m not I entirely agree with the sizing methods used in the CSS either.
thnax admin.
http://wpjudge.com/danvers-theme-reborn-widgetized-wordpress-themes/
Here is a minimalist theme that disappeared about two years ago, I revamped it a little. I still kept the old css and added a widget sidebar.
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