Manifest is a beautifully minimalist one-column weblog theme with elegant typography and nothing to distract from the main content, be that text, photos or video.
The theme has a simple horizontal navigation and absolutely no clutter or cruft to distract the eye. If you want your visitors to read your words, this is a theme that will help achieve that goal.
The main body text is justified, and the footer features elegant links to the site owner’s social media identities.
Titan is a refined and super clean two-column WordPress blog theme with impressive typography and a delicious ‘fat’ footer.
The theme is ready for Twitter integration, includes Flickr integration in the footer and has a customisable dropdown horizontal navigation across the site.
Titan is a completely free WordPress theme, but offers a paid membership option with ongoing support, customisation tips and tutorials.
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Sugar Cane is an eye-catching two-column WordPress theme with beautiful typography, great use of images and a distinctive style.
Theme author Able Parris notes that the theme’s strength “is that it makes both long and short posts look great and easy to read”, which is dead right.
Site owners can use the two built-in image classes to have large landscape images span the entire content column and to have portrait images offset alongside the posts.
For those inclined to tweak things a little and make a theme their own, it would be relatively simple to make a few changes to colours and fonts to turn Sugar Cane into your own distinctive web presence.
Sugar Cane is a child theme for the Thematic framework by Ian Stewart. As the author’s page explains: “Child themes allow you to create layouts without touching the source theme’s template files. For this theme to work, you will need to upload both Thematic and Sugar Cane to your theme directory, but only activate Sugar Cane. It’s that easy.”
Nouice is a two-column WordPress theme with a simple design highlighting posts in a way that’s somewhat reminiscent of a Polaroid photograph.
The theme has a clean blue background and an elegant, modern appearance. It could service almost any kind of blog.
Be warned: comments are not built in to this theme.
The original theme author’s site has gone offline, but you can still download the theme elsewhere.
Clean Slate is a feature-packed WordPress theme that’s centred around a scrolling ‘featured posts’ section and features plenty of white space and stylish typography.
The theme offers an options page for customising the featured section, as well as changing the site logo and customising a sponsorship panel.
It also comes with a layered PSD file to allow you to customise the design and layout to your liking.
The Clean Slate theme costs $US25.
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Inuit Types is a rare gem – a simply stunning WordPress theme that’s half blog, half magazine site.
The theme is stylish, flexible and beautiful.
Its features include:
PureType is a clean and sophisticated CSS-based WordPress theme with a strong type-based layout.
The theme features three widget-ready areas, three colour schemes, two layout options and more customisation built into the theme options page.
It also offers custom thumbnails, downloadable PSD files, threaded comments, gravatars and built-in ad space.
Basic is from Elegant Themes. It costs $US19.95 for a one-year membership, which includes all of their (very impressive) premium themes.
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A Minor Incident is a stylish WordPress theme featuring light text on a dark background and beautiful typography.
Posts within the theme are highly legible and the navigation scheme is beautifully styled, as is the horizontal navigation bar, which sits to the right of the header.
This theme pays attention to detail and gets the little things right. It’s minimal and graphic-free.
Note: The download site isn’t in English but the theme itself appears to be created in English.
Modern Clix is a beautiful WordPress blog theme built using a grid and featuring a generous use of whitespace and a strong focus on typography.
The theme comes with a range of neat features, according to its release page:
EversonNews is a fresh, clean and flexible news and magazine-style WordPress theme.
The theme features a beautiful jQuery tabbed slider/teaser on the homepage, which you can easily update from your WP admin area.
It also has movable and collapsable blocks with cookie support (to save positions, collapse/close states) that display the latest content from your categories.
The EversonNews WordPress theme costs $US59.
