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40 Killer Minimalist Blog Designs

Regular readers of SpyreStudios will recognize that the love of minimalism runs pretty deep around here (judging by the minimalism articles we’ve published before: here, here and here). So today we’re going to explore the excellent use of minimalism in blog design.

The designers of these blogs knew what was important and made sure that the website focused on those pieces, and for that – we appreciate them.

Share Some Candy ↓

Share Some Candy

DFCKR ↓

DFCKR

Brand New ↓

brand new

Information Architects ↓

information architects

The Designed ↓

The Designed

Heartworker ↓

Heartworker

Beyond the Pixels ↓

beyond the pixels

Jaboo ↓

Jaboo

Jonathan Snook ↓

Jonathan Snook

Kim Ellefsens Blog ↓

Kim Ellefsens

Human Resources ↓

human resources

Burstoid ↓

Burstoid

Max Voltar ↓

max voltar

Stefan Persson ↓

Stefan Persson

Triimpuls ↓

Triimpuls

andread.it ↓

Andread.it

The Old Fashioned ↓

The Old Fashioned

Novak ↓

Novak

Nathan Borror ↓

Nathan Borror

The Post Family ↓

The Post Family

Inkcover ↓

Inkcover

Aphichat Panjamanee ↓

aphichat panjamanee

Design View ↓

Design View

This Made My Day ↓

This Made My Day

Posh CSS ↓

Posh CSS

daus.trala.la ↓

daus.trala.la

Arbol Textual ↓

Arbol Textual

Cynosura ↓

Cynosura

Reachably ↓

Reachably

Quality Peoples ↓

quality peoples

Huwshimi ↓

Huwshimi

Blanketrash ↓

Blanketrash

It’s Nice That ↓

its nice that

Do it for the fame ↓

Do it for the fame

Minima ↓

Minima

Stuart Hobday ↓

Stuart Hobday

Spinz ↓

Spinz

Daring Fireball ↓

Daring Fireball

MAY ↓

MAY

I Love Typography ↓

#I Love Typography

In conclusion

I know the readers here have some minimal designs that weren’t on the list, so feel free to drop a comment and let us know. We’d love to check out your minimal sites – we seriously love them!

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  • User Gravatar Chris
    October 28th, 2009

    Great List

  • User Gravatar Steven Snell
    October 28th, 2009

    Really nice collection Mike, including a number that I have never seen before.

  • User Gravatar Waheed Akhtar
    October 28th, 2009

    excellent collection Mike. Never seen before most of them. Thanks for sharing

  • User Gravatar Greg
    October 28th, 2009

    Hey thanks for putting The Designed in your list! It always feels good to get noticed!

    Thanks Again.

  • User Gravatar Design Informer
    October 28th, 2009

    Awesome collection! I’m a sucker for minimalism.

  • User Gravatar idApostle
    October 28th, 2009

    Great. Love these and perfect timing as I work on my new WordPress blog. Thanks.

  • User Gravatar Minimalissimo
    October 28th, 2009

    Guys, also check out Minimalissimo at htp://minimalissimo.com. We blog about minimalist design and try to practice what we preach!

  • User Gravatar Maidstone Web Design
    October 28th, 2009

    Some Great Designs, minimilism can be hard to pull off

  • User Gravatar minstyle
    October 28th, 2009

    Nice collection!

  • User Gravatar Mark Wu
    October 28th, 2009

    One of my websites is fairly minimal: http://www.filoflow.com
    (Though also because of the original WordPress theme).

    This list of minimal sites is good – I haven’t seen most of the before so it doesn’t appear to be a rehash of all the known sites out there.

  • User Gravatar Matthew
    October 28th, 2009

    Inspirational and fresh list, Mike. Thanks!

  • User Gravatar Josh Dale
    October 28th, 2009

    Fan of Blanketrash design ;)

  • User Gravatar Richard Di Cesidio
    October 28th, 2009

    #41 is missing! http://www.visualjourney.eu Nice collection indeed!

  • User Gravatar Rafael
    October 28th, 2009

    Some really great sites, not only for their looks but, of course, because of their content.
    I’ve added some to my list of sites to visit at least weekly, thanks.

  • User Gravatar Aaron Irizarry
    October 28th, 2009

    Nice round up Mike! Rad to see the May site on their!

  • User Gravatar Infrastruktur
    October 28th, 2009

    this is nothing short of minimal excellence! beautiful selection here… thanks

  • User Gravatar Luke Lux
    October 28th, 2009

    Superb collection guys!

  • User Gravatar Eric B.
    October 28th, 2009

    Excellent collection! Minimalist designs are one of my favourite styles! They look simple, but it can can take quite a bit of work to make sure it’s done right.

  • User Gravatar Delighted
    October 28th, 2009

    minimal are beautiful and ensipiing me to change my websites!! thank you for this.. very cutting edge i might add

  • User Gravatar Jim
    October 28th, 2009

    I recently stumbled upon http://Nilkanth.com and bookmarked it for its elegance.

  • User Gravatar Randy
    October 28th, 2009

    My site I feel is quite minimal.

  • User Gravatar underpk
    October 28th, 2009

    really great list, thanks

  • User Gravatar Girlie | Digital Room
    October 29th, 2009

    Excellent round-up!I’ve always been a fan of minimalist website designs. These websites look really pleasing to the eyes. With these nice and clean website designs, readers will definitely focus all their attention on the website’s content which is a great thing.

  • User Gravatar Maneesh
    October 29th, 2009

    nice collection :-)

  • User Gravatar Eero
    October 29th, 2009

    Modula is always very, very minimalist :) Free WP themes too!

  • User Gravatar pdcreatives
    October 29th, 2009

    Excellent list..thanks for sharing

  • User Gravatar Developer Art
    October 29th, 2009

    Very nice specimen.

    Creating a minimalist design is real art. It is much more difficult than putting up a colorful design. It takes an artistic eye to remove everything that is not needed and still achieve the sense of completion.

  • User Gravatar Jef
    October 29th, 2009

    That’s great, thanks for the post.

  • User Gravatar Sigurdur Armannsson
    October 29th, 2009

    http://minimalissimo.com would be nice to add to this great list.

  • User Gravatar Adam
    October 29th, 2009

    It’s nice to see a fresh set of designs…but to be honest a great deal of these have been re-hashed so many times its a bit disappointing.

  • User Gravatar Chase
    October 29th, 2009

    I wonder why more people don’t work towards having a more minimalist style blog. It really makes it so much easier to read and makes you want to keep coming back as a reader. Great inspiration with these. Thanks.

  • User Gravatar Daniel Howells
    October 29th, 2009

    Nice list. Almost all of these can be found in the Minimal category over at siteInspire:

    http://siteinspire.net/showcas.....le/minimal

  • User Gravatar Aaron S
    October 29th, 2009

    Nice. Just saw this today, a bit late, but thanks!

  • User Gravatar clippingimages
    October 29th, 2009

    Awesome collection of simple minimalist blog :) . Thanks for sharing this nice post.

  • User Gravatar Anchorage
    October 29th, 2009

    There is beauty in simplicity..

  • User Gravatar James
    October 30th, 2009

    Lovely post. Some of those blogs are really nice. I am a big fan of minimalist web design, as usually it looks better.

    For blog sites minimalism usually works better than if it were a kids toy shop for example, so minimalism has it’s place.

    This post definitely shows it at it’s best!

  • User Gravatar Arthur Brown
    October 30th, 2009

    This is an awesome collection of minimalist website designs. Good layout and great use of typography.

  • User Gravatar Paras G.
    October 30th, 2009

    Interesting list. My own favourite is http://www.subtraction.com, Khoi Vinh’s blog.

  • User Gravatar sunil
    November 1st, 2009

    I am sure, oneday my blog is also come on this list :) http://www.myhtmlworld.com

  • User Gravatar Daus
    November 1st, 2009

    Thanks for including Daus.trala.la to this list!

  • User Gravatar Igor Jovic
    November 1st, 2009

    Thanks for mentioning Spinz!

  • User Gravatar Katie
    November 2nd, 2009

    Love these! Thanks so much.

  • User Gravatar Ben Jacob
    November 2nd, 2009

    Thats a nice compilation of minimal sites.

  • User Gravatar Travis Neilson
    November 2nd, 2009

    Great list!
    I really like how The Old Fashioned website obscured portions of type. Nice touch.
    Might I submit my own for you gazing pleasure?

  • User Gravatar Zohaib
    November 2nd, 2009

    Killer Post. Love it

  • User Gravatar Minnix
    November 2nd, 2009

    http://www.minnix.co.cc/
    I’m also a minimalist :)

  • User Gravatar Peter
    November 3rd, 2009

    One blog I’ve been following (though I’d never admit it, and why I am not leaving my URL here!) is a very aesthetic, pleasing minimalist design.
    http://www.prettyshinysparkly.com
    keep up the great articles!

  • User Gravatar izzat
    November 4th, 2009

    great and inspiring list..thanks for sharing :)

  • User Gravatar Gary Rivera
    November 4th, 2009

    Another great minimal blog. http://calibersf.com

  • User Gravatar Rodrigo Teixeira
    November 4th, 2009

    This complitation is amazing. All the examples follow the same concept:The content.

    Great list!

    []‘s

  • User Gravatar Mia
    November 4th, 2009

    These were def some of the most aesthetically pleasing Themes & I will have to agree w/ @ Rodrigo Teixeira , the primary focus is def on the content and nothing else. Great compilation .

    Best regards :)

  • User Gravatar Christopher Meeks
    November 5th, 2009

    The modern beauty and pain of Photoshop is that you can do anything. Look back at design before they had computers and you see real creativity.

    This is a great list of sites that simply tell a story. Design doesn’t have to be fancy. Actually most overly textured/colored design comes across as unorganized to me. My site tries to be simple too, though I probably throw in a few more details than are necessary.

  • User Gravatar FLOR AUBONE
    November 6th, 2009

    great for the list, thank you very much!

  • User Gravatar Freddy Haragone
    November 6th, 2009

    Great work! Here’s another one. Black&White, in spanish: http://mediatinta.info/

  • User Gravatar Marisa
    November 7th, 2009

    Greats, love them. Thanks.

  • User Gravatar Alí Suárez
    November 9th, 2009

    That’s a really good list.

    Thanks!

  • User Gravatar Amy@AQ-V
    November 13th, 2009

    This is a fantastic collection, can certainly see why it has been tweeted a great deal! :~) You have included some of my favorites and many soon to be new ones. Thank you for this round-up! Would love to have my own minimal blog design considered for inclusion in a future list.

    Grazie!
    Amy

  • User Gravatar Kevin
    November 16th, 2009

    Wow, thanks for the feature! (Jaboo)
    Didn’t knew about it, until someone commented on one of my posts that Spyre featured me haha

  • User Gravatar Matt M.
    November 22nd, 2009

    Great list! Our company’s blog incorporates a lot of the minimalist features in order to present an easy to use, clean interface for our visitors, just like the examples you listed above. It’s unfortunate that a lot of amateur developers are modeling everything in the web2.0 fashion and actually taking away from usability, so minimalism is a good response to that trend.

  • User Gravatar Rahul - Web Guru
    November 23rd, 2009

    Nice compilation of weblog’s with minimal design, but they still look great.

  • User Gravatar Richie
    December 14th, 2009

    elegant and bold… i love minimalist themes. They always stand out compared to the conventional flashy and posh ones ..

  • User Gravatar pedro botton
    December 16th, 2009

    changed my blog design after this post! great compilation!

  • User Gravatar oglek
    December 18th, 2009

    Great list, I love minimalist
    you may also see my website, Mike :)

  • User Gravatar zarita
    December 21st, 2009

    I really loved the Stuart Hobday site, very clean with great text. I just found your site, and looking for to reading the rest of your posts. Check out my blogsite dlcinteriordesign.com/blog.

  • User Gravatar milly
    December 30th, 2009

    What a wonderful list, I adore jaboo, bookmarked the page to look upon now and then when I find myself following a path of grunge and horrible complicatedness ™

  • User Gravatar Constantin
    February 4th, 2010

    Thanks for the great list. My new uberfavorite is the informationarchitects site, that I now know of thanks to you.

  • User Gravatar WebBanshee
    April 3rd, 2010

    Minimal style rules.Transparent, functional and still nice

  • User Gravatar Tiyo Kamtiyono
    May 9th, 2010

    Lots of really cool minimalism design, not like mine :lol:

  • User Gravatar Vincent - B-basic.com (from the Netherlands)
    June 8th, 2010

    I absolutely like the DFCKR site.

    Thanks for this inspiring post!
    Vincent

  • User Gravatar Al Kamal Md. Razib
    June 12th, 2010

    Great posting ! Thanks for sharing !

  • User Gravatar Tim
    June 17th, 2010

    this one’s not too bad either:

    http://fairground.bibico.co.uk/

  • User Gravatar Rokaiya Yeasmin Munni
    June 24th, 2010

    I really glad to see the excellent use of minimalism in blog design. Nice post. Thanks for sharing.

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