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 ↓
DFCKR ↓
Brand New ↓
Information Architects ↓
The Designed ↓
Heartworker ↓
Beyond the Pixels ↓
Jaboo ↓
Jonathan Snook ↓
Kim Ellefsens Blog ↓
Human Resources ↓
Burstoid ↓
Max Voltar ↓
Stefan Persson ↓
Triimpuls ↓
andread.it ↓
The Old Fashioned ↓
Novak ↓
Nathan Borror ↓
The Post Family ↓
Inkcover ↓
Aphichat Panjamanee ↓
Design View ↓
This Made My Day ↓
Posh CSS ↓
daus.trala.la ↓
Arbol Textual ↓
Cynosura ↓
Reachably ↓
Quality Peoples ↓
Huwshimi ↓
Blanketrash ↓
It’s Nice That ↓
Do it for the fame ↓
Minima ↓
Stuart Hobday ↓
Spinz ↓
Daring Fireball ↓
MAY ↓
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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About the author:
Mike Smith releases wordpress themes on a regular basis and is also a blog designer at Guerrilla.
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October 28th, 2009
Great List
October 28th, 2009
Really nice collection Mike, including a number that I have never seen before.
October 28th, 2009
excellent collection Mike. Never seen before most of them. Thanks for sharing
October 28th, 2009
Hey thanks for putting The Designed in your list! It always feels good to get noticed!
Thanks Again.
October 28th, 2009
Awesome collection! I’m a sucker for minimalism.
October 28th, 2009
Great. Love these and perfect timing as I work on my new WordPress blog. Thanks.
October 28th, 2009
Guys, also check out Minimalissimo at htp://minimalissimo.com. We blog about minimalist design and try to practice what we preach!
October 28th, 2009
Some Great Designs, minimilism can be hard to pull off
October 28th, 2009
Nice collection!
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.
October 28th, 2009
Inspirational and fresh list, Mike. Thanks!
October 28th, 2009
Fan of Blanketrash design ;)
October 28th, 2009
#41 is missing! http://www.visualjourney.eu Nice collection indeed!
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.
October 28th, 2009
Nice round up Mike! Rad to see the May site on their!
October 28th, 2009
this is nothing short of minimal excellence! beautiful selection here… thanks
October 28th, 2009
Superb collection guys!
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.
October 28th, 2009
minimal are beautiful and ensipiing me to change my websites!! thank you for this.. very cutting edge i might add
October 28th, 2009
I recently stumbled upon http://Nilkanth.com and bookmarked it for its elegance.
October 28th, 2009
My site I feel is quite minimal.
October 28th, 2009
really great list, thanks
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.
October 29th, 2009
nice collection :-)
October 29th, 2009
Modula is always very, very minimalist :) Free WP themes too!
October 29th, 2009
Excellent list..thanks for sharing
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.
October 29th, 2009
That’s great, thanks for the post.
October 29th, 2009
http://minimalissimo.com would be nice to add to this great list.
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.
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.
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
October 29th, 2009
Nice. Just saw this today, a bit late, but thanks!
October 29th, 2009
Awesome collection of simple minimalist blog :) . Thanks for sharing this nice post.
October 29th, 2009
There is beauty in simplicity..
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!
October 30th, 2009
This is an awesome collection of minimalist website designs. Good layout and great use of typography.
October 30th, 2009
Interesting list. My own favourite is http://www.subtraction.com, Khoi Vinh’s blog.
November 1st, 2009
I am sure, oneday my blog is also come on this list :) http://www.myhtmlworld.com
November 1st, 2009
Thanks for including Daus.trala.la to this list!
November 1st, 2009
Thanks for mentioning Spinz!
November 2nd, 2009
Love these! Thanks so much.
November 2nd, 2009
Thats a nice compilation of minimal sites.
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?
November 2nd, 2009
Killer Post. Love it
November 2nd, 2009
http://www.minnix.co.cc/
I’m also a minimalist :)
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!
November 4th, 2009
great and inspiring list..thanks for sharing :)
November 4th, 2009
Another great minimal blog. http://calibersf.com
November 4th, 2009
This complitation is amazing. All the examples follow the same concept:The content.
Great list!
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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 :)
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.
November 6th, 2009
great for the list, thank you very much!
November 6th, 2009
Great work! Here’s another one. Black&White, in spanish: http://mediatinta.info/
November 7th, 2009
Greats, love them. Thanks.
November 9th, 2009
That’s a really good list.
Thanks!
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
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
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.
November 23rd, 2009
Nice compilation of weblog’s with minimal design, but they still look great.
December 14th, 2009
elegant and bold… i love minimalist themes. They always stand out compared to the conventional flashy and posh ones ..
December 16th, 2009
changed my blog design after this post! great compilation!
December 18th, 2009
Great list, I love minimalist
you may also see my website, Mike :)
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.
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 ™
February 4th, 2010
Thanks for the great list. My new uberfavorite is the informationarchitects site, that I now know of thanks to you.
April 3rd, 2010
Minimal style rules.Transparent, functional and still nice
May 9th, 2010
Lots of really cool minimalism design, not like mine :lol:
June 8th, 2010
I absolutely like the DFCKR site.
Thanks for this inspiring post!
Vincent
June 12th, 2010
Great posting ! Thanks for sharing !
June 17th, 2010
this one’s not too bad either:
http://fairground.bibico.co.uk/
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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