Sans-serif Racer is a three-column, fluid-layout WordPress theme which uses one theme color, default sans-serif typeface and no images.

The theme features a wide main column for your stories and images and two sidebars on the right. It supports widgets and tags out of the box.

It’s a minimal theme but with its own unique touches.

The Sans-serif Racer theme’s code features some nice flexibility for theme users, including an option to have page titles that are different from the text that will point to them in the main navigation bar. There are also a number of different image classes to provide options when placing images in your posts.

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Futurosity Eos is a sophisticated Wordpress theme with a minimal three-column design and the flexibility to create a magazine-style site.

It includes a large image for one featured story, and large, clear headlines for the latest stories running down the left-hand column.

The design is minimal and the colours are classic - black, red, grey. The two sidebars present navigation, comments, categories and anything else you desire.

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A mix of serif and sans serif fonts, large headlines, lots of white space and a clear left sidebar are the hallmarks of this stylish two-column Wordpress theme.

The theme is only available in Spanish but could easily be ported into English.

This is a unique theme with something of a newspaper feel.

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It’s hard to categorise the Fontella Wordpress theme given it has one column in its main body but three columns in the footer.

The theme essentially puts a great deal of emphasis on a single post, and the provides previous posts and categories in the footer.

The template has big fonts and a simple design. It could be used for a personal blog, a business website or with a bit of tweaking even a magazine-style website that publishes one story a day.

If you have great content but a low turnover of posts, this theme could be just for you.

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Modicus Remix is a stylish, minimalist, two-column Wordpress theme that uses classic colours and a weblog-style layout.

It has relatively wide columns, simple navigation links in the top-right corner of the page and a wide, narrow header image that would be simple to replace.

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45 Degrees is a truly simple but efficient and useful Wordpress theme that could easily serve many different purposes.

It’s a two-column centred design, with an effective header and simple navigation at both the top and bottom of all pages. The sidebar is on the right, with main content on the left.

This is a classic weblog-style theme, with nothing distracting from the stories and images you’ll post. A great starter theme for those who want to tweak the CSS styling.

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GimpStyle is a simple two-column Wordpress theme with a grey header and navigation bar running full width across the top of the page. Then follows a clear layout with nice typography and a left-hand sidebar.

The theme is valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional and the CSS is valid, too. The theme is available in English or Spanish versions.

There’s nothing flashy or fancy about GimpStyle. It’s a minimal, stylish theme that will allow the stories and images you post to shine.

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Plane Jane is a simple two-column theme with light text on a dark background, drawing a little inspiration from well-known Mac website Daring Fireball.

The content runs in the main left-hand column, while there’s a top navigation bar and more room to play with in the right-hand sidebar.

The content and navigation is sharp and the typography is crystal clear.

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DePo Skinny by Derek Powazek is a powerful, effective one-column theme for Wordpress.

It’s a super-simple theme with one 500-pixel-wide column. It accommodates categories and tags easily.
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The Neoclassical theme for WordPress is a simple and elegant template system that offers classical styling, rich typography and huge random header images. It’s created by Chris Pearson, who also made themes such as Cutline and Copyblogger.

This three-column theme lives and breathes courtesy of its elegant typography, which makes your content pop.

It’s worth noting this is a sponsored theme, with a sponsored link inserted in the footer. Despite that downside, it’s a beautiful template for bloggers looking for a three-column solution.

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