Here you can find a curated selection of the best minimalist WordPress themes currently on the market. The excellent typography in each of these themes will draw the reader's attention to each and every word you use. Minimalist in design, these themes are sure to turn heads. Anybody who wants to share their writing with the world can find the ideal WordPress theme for their creative personal website, blog, or online publication.
Fixy
Fixy is lightweight and simple WordPress theme, you can go back to the core values of blogging with this WordPress theme. It has features like Google web fonts support, Typekit web fonts support, Adobe web fonts support, site wide header/sidebar image, Jetpack Infinite Scroll support on index/archive/author/search, fully fluid design, built mobile first for speed with IE fallback, all templates are HTML5 compliant, child theme supplied, full control of colours, minified JavaScript, Google Analytics support, different shortcodes and many more.
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Float
Float is a responsive blog theme for WordPress. With the Theme Options panel it’s really easy to customize the theme. It is comes with features such as custom widgets (Flickr, social links, latest posts with thumbnails, Post-it note), shortcode manager (buttons, alerts, and columns), custom contact page template with validation, custom archive page template, enhanced with jQuery and CSS3, choose from 6 background images or upload your own, choose between serif and sans-serif font for body text and translation ready.
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Ravage
Ravage is a big, bold & beautiful theme helping writers & creatives alike share their work, your perfect choice in a WordPress theme for sharing your articles, photographs, videos or more.
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Read WP
Read WP is a responsive WordPress theme focused on readability with a minimalist design.
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Sylva
Sylva is clean, unique and minimal content focus Blogging Theme perfect for bloggers. It is responsive means it will fit in various device of different size. It supports all type of post format. It is simple and it’s elegant. Theme options are directly incorporated with WordPress customizer itself.Sylva is suitable for any kind of personal or travel, hobby, tutorial blog.
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Textual
A Text-Centric WordPress Blog Theme. Textual is comes with features such as support for all post formats, auto excerpt for blog, turn sidebar on/off globally, custom CSS Block, control all font sizes, enhanced author biographies, fully responsive design, fully HTML5 compliant, child themes, full control of colours, minified JavaScript and more.
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Type
Type is a simple, streamlined and minimalist blogging theme with user-friendly and fully responsive design. Type theme is suited for all creative personal, writer or blog websites and for anyone else who want to share their writing with the world.
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Writing
Writing is a clean & minimal Wordperss theme for personal blogs with simple creative features and effects to make readers feel the pleasure of reading articles, it mixes between modern, classic and minimal blog styles, if you are a blogger, you don’t need to have any experiment to setup your WordPress personal blog, you will get high quality, responsive, well crafted blog out of the box to make author only focuses on writing content, and it has great typography to make your fans and followers focus on every word you write.
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Basic
Basic is fully responsive and will look perfect regardless of whether you’re using a huge desktop or a small phone. Desktops, iPads, iPhones, Android phones, doesn’t matter. Basic will look great.
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Deck
Meet Deck, a uniquely handcrafted WordPress theme for creatives and individuals. Stay in the creative flow with this minimal, bold, yet beautifully responsive WordPress theme by Mighty Themes.
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Format
Format is a minimal WordPress theme with a bit of a twist. Format concentrates on your latest post, letting your other posts take less emphasis in our unique blog stream format. Don’t worry though, you can still show your posts the traditional way, if you want to.
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Futura
Futura is clean content focus Blogging Theme perfect for bloggers. It is responsive means it will fit in various device of different size. It supports all type of post format. It is simple and it’s elegant. Theme options are directly incorporated with WordPress customizer itself.Futura is suitable for any kind of personal or travel, hobby, tutorial blog.
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Hati
Hati is a reliable and fast responsive WordPress theme for small agencies and creatives. Template focused onto large media content and featured multi-dimensional filterable portfolio. Design relatively adapts on visitors screens, organizing your selected works. Your work is just to be ready for conversation.
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Inverto WP
Inverto is a Black & White WordPress Theme with a minimal and clean design perfectly suitable for designers, architects, freelancers, agencies and photographers who want to focus their presentation on the content and make it stand out.
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Nerdy
Nerdy has a site wide header image, Jetpack infinite scroll support, new Twitter oauth api support, fully fluid design, built mobile first, 11 page/single/custom post type templates, unlimited portfolio pages, unlimited blog pages, all templates are html5 compliant, child theme supplied, Google api v3 maps support, built-in contact form, custom lightbox to convert standard wordpress gallery, localisation support with provided .mo and .po files, custom menu, drop down menus, shortcodes and many options and features.
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Nord
Nord is a minimal and clean WordPress blog theme. This theme is a content-focused, so perfect for a personal blog. A good choice for travelers, writers, artists, photographers, designers and creative people. Nord has a minimalistic layout that focuses on simplicity and readability. Easy installation allows you to start post blogs immediately after the activation. Theme supported Customizer which allows you to customize and change design of your blog. Nord is 100% responsive built with HTML5 & CSS3, it’s SEO friendly, mobile optimized & retina ready.
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One
ONE is a beautiful cutting edge and well built Portfolio WordPress theme. Designed to put visual oriented content in the first place, without any clutter and noise. It is ideal for design agencies, freelancers and content creators. Perfect for web design, graphic design, photography, fashion, art, architecture, interior design and other creative fields.
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Peggy
Peggy is a clean and nonsense free blog theme, full of all the things you need and none of the things you don't. Peggy has a fully responsive design, sidebar layout (left or right), carousel, homepage Hero control, custom About You widget, custom social Widget, social link enabled author pages, all post formats supported, 5 widget areas (Header, footer, sidebar, top socials, footer socials), hide/show almost everything from comments to social share, translation ready, custom logo uploads including retina logo, Google and Typekit fonts compatible and more.
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Pushy
Pushy is a great WordPress theme for marketing, business, corporate, creative, Blog. With Pushy, there are so many options the possibilities are endless!
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Reply
Meet Reply, a simply elegant blogging theme. Minimal meets bold clean type and content gets center stage in this responsive WordPress theme by Mighty Themes.
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The Breaking News
The Breaking News is a minimalist WordPress theme with a modern and fresh design. Also, theme has lots of white space and easy-to-read typography. The Breaking News theme is ready for mobile devices. So your site content will always look beautiful on smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktop screens. The Breaking News theme features a featured slideshow and editor’s choice section for showcasing your most important articles. This theme is perfect for news and magazine sites as well as blogs.
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Thoughts
Thoughts is a beautiful, minimal, content focused, responsive WordPress theme for bloggers & writers.
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Wharton
Wharton is lightweight and simple yet big and bold. Wharton can be used as photoblog-style WordPress theme for sharing your thoughts, videos, articles, quotes, audio – you can even embed Twitter status and Facebook statuses. Of course, you could use Wharton as a minimal portfolio to show off your latest work.
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Writer
A big bold modern blogging theme for creative writers. Each post and page can have their own background slideshow.
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Apart
Apart is a super simple, photoblog-style WordPress theme for sharing your images, videos, articles, quotes and more. Use it as a personal blog or a minimal portfolio to show off your latest works! It has a responsive design meaning your content will be displayed beautifully on all mobile devices.
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BlogBox
BlogBox is a minimal, bold, responsive and easy to use photoblog-style WordPress theme. Its a perfect fit for artists, photographers, or just creative people looking for a theme with clean design to share their photos, galleries, videos and articles.
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Boroda
Powerful WP Theme designed in a clean and minimalistic style. This theme is very flexible, easy for customizing and well documented, approaches for personal and professional use. Boroda has been coded in HTML5 & CSS3 and jQuery. It has a solid flexible responsive layout that scales from 320px to full screen width width all Bootstrap features. Follow me to be notified for future updates!
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Collektion
Collektion is a beautiful and well built WordPress blogging theme, inspired on narrative trend sites like Exposure and Medium.
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Crush
Crush is a responsive WordPress blog theme with an elegant and clean design. It is perfect for any personal blog. It is a fully configurable and easy to use with a lot of great features. Crush is an exciting and sophisticated Blog Theme for WordPress.
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Daisho
Daisho is a portfolio solution for creative professionals and companies looking for a minimal and professional look. Flexible and responsive presentation, smooth navigational flow and clutter-free approach. Put your works in focus. The definitive portfolio solution for creative professionals available now.
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Kopy WP
Kopy is simply a blog WordPress theme for those who want to share their beautiful stories.
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Typer
Typer features striking typography with beautiful underlining and attention to a clean layout. Use it to display your awesome stories or use it to tell the world about any topic you love. The striking header area makes it easy to grab the reader’s attention. You can customize the max height of the header area inside the customizer panel.