Blog designs certainly can by complex, colourful and overwhelming and many free themes for Wordpress belongs to that category. Some bloggers on the other hand prefer simple and clean layouts for their blog leaving more space for the text itself to be in focus. If you should go for a minimalistic theme is really up to you to decide but if you’re considering this post will give you the inspiration needed and may help you find the theme you are looking for.
Upstart Blogger Minim
Undedicated
WP-DEV Dojo Minimalist Wordpress Theme
Minimalist Wordpress Theme
Minimo
Basal Minimalist Wordpress Theme
WPCandy v1 WordPress Theme
Carrington Text Minimalist Wordpress Theme
Typogriph
Essayist Minimalist Wordpress Theme
Buddymatic Minimalist Wordpress Theme
MagZine
Thematic Minimalist Wordpress Theme Framework
Manifest
Neutra Minimalist Wordpress Theme
Modern Clix
Hybrid Minimalist Wordpress Theme Framework
Thunderbolt
Sharpfolio
Sator-ii
Die Neue Typographie
Oulipo
Ambiru
Simplicity
Cardeo Minimal
Clean Home
Just Lucid
The Journalist
Magatheme
Kallista
Clean Minimal
Minimal Gray
Information Architects
Modern
Pixelate
Grid Focus
P2
Modio
Modicus
Purus
Emire
Simpla
Hemingway
Elite
Stilbruch
Sans Serif Racer
Textback
Tarski
Doc Minimalist Wordpress Theme
Sunrise Racer
Agneka Simple
Lead
f8 Lite
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December 15th, 2009 at 1:15 am
Great Post
PrimePress by Ravi Varma is another worth checking out.
Rich
December 15th, 2009 at 7:57 am
beautiful themes!
December 15th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Great collection. I’ve always been a fan of the clean look in website design and these fit that bill nicely! Thanks for taking the time to put this together.
December 28th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
This is a very fine collection of simple wordpress themes!
January 4th, 2010 at 12:53 am
Awesome Wordpress Themes! Also check out a theme by ganearh called Minimalism Wordpress Themes.
January 4th, 2010 at 1:42 pm
pretty nice themes…
January 8th, 2010 at 4:45 pm
I think the minimalist approach is definitely the way to go.
We are just about to add a blog to our survey equipment site and this has really helped to make my mind up.
Thanks
January 11th, 2010 at 6:35 pm
pretty nice themes dude!
January 27th, 2010 at 5:48 am
thank you very much it is very perfect
February 10th, 2010 at 9:08 am
I like those minimal Theme Designs. There are some nice ones in this List.
February 19th, 2010 at 9:08 pm
Some great themes here.
This prompted me to check the stats on some of my blogs. Guess what…
The ones with the simple clean designs have significantly longer page viewing times and a greater number of pages per visit.
So I guess KISS ‘keep it simple stupid’ is sound advice.
Rich
February 19th, 2010 at 10:18 pm
@Rotary, great to hear about your tests. I think quite a few user tests have documented the same results. Keeping load time below a few seconds is critical but not simple at all for design blogs. Most posts on these blogs (including tripwire magazine) have many large images and then it takes quite some time to load the entire page. It could be interesting to know if this is really a problem if just the part of the page that is visible in the browser window loads fast…. I haven’t understood how it works yet but I have noticed that images on mashable.com seams to only load if you scroll down and they become visible… May be a way to minimize the overall load time… Not sure but I think I heard somewhere that Google have started to include load time in the ranking algorithms.