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:
Renaissance is a beautifully designed three-column theme with a robust ad management system, asides and 14 widget areas.
The theme lets you easily add content from your Tumblr or Flickr account, features excellent typography and allows authors to easily change the header layout for their blog.
It includes a theme options panel within WordPress that allows considerable flexibility and provides three colour schemes: default, light and dark.
Renaissance costs $US55.
Elite Video is a clever videoblogging theme with a video slider as the central element of the homepage.
The theme has clear navigation, displays categories prominently and features space to showcase recent, popular, highly rated and most commented videos.
Elite Video boasts one-click video integration, is compatible with most video sites (YouTube, MetaCafe, Blip etc.) and offers theme customisation options from within the WordPress control panel.
It has gravatars and widgets ready to roll and includes an AJAX star-rating system.
Elite Video costs $US50 for a single-use licence or $US125 for a developer package.
Oulipo is a clean, minimal, widget-ready WordPress theme with great typography and a grid-based layout.
The theme supports threaded comments and sticky posts in WordPress 2.7, and has beautiful styling for images, captions and comments, amongst other elements.
Satorii is a single-column WordPress theme with a minimalist, elegant and clean style.
The theme is built on the back of the well-known Sandbox theme, the Yahoo User Interface CSS and jQuery javascript, which makes it easy to customise or add new features — some of them are automatic zebra tables and automatic FancyBox added to image links, plus a useful reply to comments effect.
Plus, it has everything that a complete WordPress should have: support for tags, galleries and captions, Gravatar, localization (so you can create your own translation editing just one file), an image template, and, of course, widgets.
Satorii has beautiful typography and an extremely well styled comments area. The theme is very flexible and would suit multiple purposes.
The Sirup theme for WordPress features an elegant and functional magazine-style layout; with some tweaking it’d make a gorgeous website.
The styling is distinctive but not particularly attractive out of the box; however, it would be simple to use this theme as a starting point to create your own distinct site, simple by tweaking the colours in its stylesheet.
The theme is fixed-width, features valid code, supports Gravatars and sidebar widgets.
You can customize the appearance of your site with an options page inside the WordPress administration, including:
Equilibrium is a gorgeous, minimalist magazine-style WordPress theme making excellent use of images to highlight recent posts on the front page.
This is an ultra-clean and simple theme but has all the bases covered in terms of navigation, style, widgets and WordPress 2.7 support.
Blass2 is a minimalist two-column WordPress theme with stylish horizontal navigation, lovely use of whitespace and crystal clear typography.
Blass2 has an administration panel, making it easier to customise. It’s widgetized but comes with a default sidebar all set up and ready to use.
The theme uses no images, reducing traffic and loading time.
It also includes an archives page set up and ready to use.
Upstart Blogger Swiss is a simple, elegant magazine-style theme with international typographic style and all the focus on the writing.
This is a minimalist theme, although adding images above each post excerpt on the homepage would be a simple matter and would add a lot of impact and style to your site.
The theme has a well-defined structure, two columns and features mouseover highlight effects.
