You can’t get enough good free Tumblr themes, right? However paying just a little may be a good idea if you are serious about your Tumblr space. My favourite site for finding Tubmlr themes is ThemeForest and I have collected some of the best premium Tumblr themes I know of below. Check them out if the free themes below are not living up to your expectations. You can also check out other posts on Tumblr themes and I would recommend vintage Tumblr themes.

Tumblr is a microblogging platform that allows users to post text, images, videos, links, quotes and audio to their tumblelog, a short-form blog. Users can follow other users, or choose to make their tumblelog private. The service emphasizes ease of use and is gaining quite some popularity. Tumblr was founded in 2007, but it came to limelight in 2009 when Tumblr named to be in Obama’s Top 5 Tech Tools in PC World. If you want to start blogging but don’t have much time to write long articles then Tumblr is probably one of the best tools you can turn to. This post is a collection of beautiful and free and premium Tumblr themes to help you choose the best Tumblr theme for your Tumblr blog.

Disclosure: Please note that some of the links below are affiliate links and I will earn a commission if you purchase through those links (at no extra cost to you). I recommend that you do your own independent research before purchasing any product or service. This article is not a guideline, a recommendation or endorsement of specific products.

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Best Tumblr Theme Index

• Best Free Tumblr Themes
• Best Premium Tumblr Themes

Best Free Tumblr Themes

Stationery

Organ

Inkhorn

Royal Cameleon

Solstice

Easy Reader 2

Royal Ribbon

Color Shades

Effector Theme

Simplify

Panda Classics Recycled

Next Saturday

Cmpndm

Glacial Simplicity

Spring

Oh My Grid

Dark Things

The Traveler

Hobo

Native Citizens

Natural Elegance

The Eames

Chalkdust

Firsts

Ancient Page

Black Diamonds

Atonement

Art She Said

Effector Theme

Pink Touch 2

Simple Things

Boundless

Glacial Simplicity

Ffekt Two

Grunge Era

Luxury Notes

Best Premium Tumblr theme

Squared Magazine – Tumblr News / Magazine Theme

It sports a true category navigation and custom widgets to give your Tumblog a real Magazine feel, like Related Articles, Latest Posts, Tagcloud, Comments, Social Network Sharing, a widget area for as many widgets as you like (for example ads, polls and so on) and much more. This is one of the better simple tumbler themes.

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Squared Folio Tumblr Portfolio Theme

A fresh, clean and stylish Portfolio to show off your work. It contains loads of Customization Options, Cufon Font replacement, a optional image slider, Google Analytics and Google Maps support, you can upload your own logo, and set up links to your social network accounts. You can turn on/off almost every section/part of this Theme, as well as give almost every section a custom title from within your admin menu. One of the better simple tumbler themes.

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Vintage Sky

Vintage sky theme supports all the features and has two content rich sidebar, featuring your likes, latest tweets, description, search box, pages, avatar box and people your following. The theme is very customizable with a few clicks you can change the center image and the slide images of the header animation or hide the fully header, fix the columns and the background image, change background image, add latest tweets and “stuff i like” or change the color of the links

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Domericano

Domericano – one of the amazing Vintage Tumblr Themes- is a clean, minimal and beautiful using the Masonry effect as well as optional Endless scrolling. It is suited for all kinds of blogs and portfolios, easy to install, has a ton of options and is heavily jquery enhanced.

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Essentia – 2 in 1 Tumblr Theme

The Essentia Tumblr theme brings with it the next evolution in web technology: movement. This theme emphasises a unique, crisp and hi-tech look to your blog with a whole host of customisation options. One of the niftiest functions included, is the ability to upload your own background and watch it scroll automatically; To get your started, this theme is packaged with 4 Bokeh (Bubbles) backgrounds along with the PSD file to play around with.

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Polaroid Tumblr Theme

The Polaroid Tumblr theme is a premium tumblr theme that was designed by Pixel Floss to display your work, your views, and your life in a clean and clear format. The theme has been designed so it is easily changed and adapted to how you want it, from the colour of the links, the background and the amazing features in the side bar, you control everything. Unlike other tumblr themes it has a two column layout, this will make it easier for viewers to see all your posts. This is a great pick among the many simple tumbler themes.

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Elegantem tumblr theme

Elegantem is a Tumblr theme that beautifully merges design and function. Emphasizing your latest entry, this theme has a customisable layout and even supports popular social media services.

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Forma – Premium Tumblr Theme

Forma focuses on real content, presented in a refined design. The flawless user experience is the most notable feature of Forma. At the same time the blog author has full control over the theme, thanks to the theme options.

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Nuance Tumblr Theme

Nuance is a clean, minimal, customizable and unique tumblr theme.

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The Playground Tumblr Theme

The Playground is a highly customizable Tumblr theme based on the famous jQuery masonry plugin.

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Timeline tumblr theme

TIMELINE is a Premium Tumblr Theme that was designed to view your tumblog as timelines. This is a personal theme that’s suitable in use for people who have an active and enjoyable life.

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Rapture Tumblr Theme

Rapture Tumblr theme is perfect for anything from a portfolio, personal blog, group blog or business blog. It features an image slider to showcase your best work, which can optionally be switched off if you would prefer not to have one. The Rapture Tumblr theme comes with an extensive amount of options allowing you the freedom to customise your blog with little code exposure. All the widgets in the sidebar can be turned off or on through the Appearance menu when customising your Tumblog.

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Pop Gallery Tumblr Theme

Pop Gallery is a Tumblr theme for visual portfolios, galleries, handcrafts shops, with the unique possibility to present distinct thumbnails for new, sold and reserved items. It has a beautiful and clean design with circular thumbnails.

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Shift Tumblr theme

The Shift Tumblr theme is ideal for any blog, from a personal blog to portfolios! The image slider allows you to showcase your favourite images or best portfolio work. Shift supports all of the Tumblr post types and also features a custom post page with a sidebar to add affiliate links or a Flickr photo feed.

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Crisps Tumblr Theme

This is a clean, minimal and easily customisable theme for Tumblr.

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Pixelated tumblr theme

Pixelated theme is a premium tumblr theme designed by Oscar Barber to display the best way all you want to share on Tumblr. This theme focus on details and supports every single post type Tumblr allows: text, photo, quote, link, chat, audio, video and finally Ask Me (a very new feature wich allows users to ask you questions you can reply to). Each post type is displayed with it own unique formatting style. All you need to do is select the type you want to publish and Pixelated theme will do the rest.

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Perception Tumblr Theme

Perception Tumblr Theme is perfect for a freelancer, agency or business portfolio. Perception features a snippet of the posts contents on the home page so more can be seen at one time. Each Tumblr post type has its own styling on the home page and its main focus is the content.

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Cream – A Tumblr Theme

Cream is a clean and simple Tumblr theme using subtle textures and colors for a light and playful feel. Main colors are creamy tones of beige and tan, accented with pinks for links and accent items. The sidebar is easily customizeable and you can easily add in flickr or custom content as each block is set up as a list item of an unordered list. Fully layered PSD is included, to allow easy editing of graphic elements.

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Heterotelic Tumblr Theme

Heterotelic is a two column tumblr theme the features Image Slider Banner, Social Share Icons for each post, DISQUS Comments, Facebook Page like-box, Twitter Status display widget and etc.

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Litefolio – portfolio theme for Tumblr

Clean and minimalistic portfolio theme with jQuery slider for designers, photographers and illustrators.

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Tumbl News – Tumblr Theme Template

Lots of nice elements in this newspaper style Tumblr Theme.

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Focus – A Minimalistic Tumblr Theme

Focus is a minimalistic and adaptive Tumblr theme aimed at presenting your content, to any device, without clutter. It features easy to change colors and background images as well as support for Disqus, Flickr, Twitter, Dribbble and Google Analytics. This theme gives a tailored view to each device (Android, iPhone, iPad, Desktop, etc) that visits it and only serves the content that is required, helping to speed up delivery of your site.

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Time Goes Back – Tumblr Portfolio Theme

TGB is a clean and functional Tumblr portfolio you will love this theme.

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Cleanfolio is a premium tumblr portfolio theme designed to be as clean as possible in order to let your work take the stage. It is suitable for all kind of creative portfolios as well as for small businesses.

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Gallera – Photo Gallery/Portfolio Theme for Tumblr

“Gallera” is a clean and elegant gallery theme with subtle grunge background texture and custom typography. It’s best suited for photographers, artists and designers who want to showcase their work in the best possible way, but can be used as a web gallery or any other site where images take central part.

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Meteoro 2028 – A new Tumblr Portfolio

Meteoro 2028 is a minimal but robust Portfolio for Tumblr. This item, in particular offer support for Photo Post, Photosets an Video post (Youtube an Vimeo for now).

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Pandemonium Magazine Tumblr theme

This is simple and aesthetic Tumblr theme designed to be an online magazine developed by one or more authors or just to be a simple blog. It’s easy to customize, almost without any knowledge about programming.

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Chocolate T

f you need clean, light and simple Tumblr Theme, Chocolate T is definitely your choice! It is refined and elegant template with complex and precise combination of light gradients and shadows.

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Sakura t

Sakura t. is a Tumblr version of Black Sakura WordPress theme. It is clean and trendy-looking theme with number of cool features.

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POPCASE

POPCASE is a Tumblr theme with 3 column layouts and unlimited color scheme control, suitable for displaying your artworks and articles.

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Notes – A Clean and Responsive Tumblr Theme

Notes is a responsive Tumblr theme, based on the idea of note paper, which support all Tumblr post types. Easily customisable, with custom colours and support for Disqus and Google Analytics. This theme also adapts to your desktop, iPad and iPhone, serving the same design to all your visitors.

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