When you decide to change the theme of your WordPress blog, you can either go for themes with high graphics or minimal WordPress themes. Minimal WordPress themes are best as they give your blog a clean and simple look. These themes also focus mainly on content which makes it easy for your readers to read your blog’s content.
The other benefit of minimal WordPress themes is that it makes your blog load faster, making it convenient for your readers to surf your site. The more you will make your site convenient and readable for your readers, the readership you will get.
You can find the best minimal WordPress themes of 2012 in the following list. If you are thinking to launch a mobile app you can find some of the best mobile app WordPress themes here.
FlipFlop
Flipflop is a modular theme which is designed with clean and large typography whose main focus is on content. Using flipflop your content becomes ultra-readable for your readers.
Boxline
Boxline has everything that you can expect from a premium magazine theme. With its unique and elegant design your blog will stand out from the crowd. The theme features beautifully looking like and social buttons.
Magazine Theme
Structure Theme
TechNews
TechNews is a theme especially built for tech bloggers. It has awesome layout and is an ideal solution for your tech and news blog. It offers you two views for latest articles – List view and Grid view.
Shadows
Shadows has a very clean and minimalistic design that suits almost any kind of blog niche. It is named as shadows because of its CSS3 shadow effects.
Euclides
Euclides is perfect theme designed for tutorial writers. Whether you write tutorials for PHP, MySQL or PHP, this theme is for you and it is available for free.
Origin
Origin is minimalist theme with responsive layout which can be used for all type of blogs.
Mindful
Mindful is a premium minimal WordPress theme with responsive layout. It is perfect for web design agencies, portfolio or other creative persons. Home page sequence slideshow is the main feature of the theme. It allows you to control the positions of text and images along with animation effects
BetaTheme
BetaTheme is a theme designed for corporate and portfolio type sites. It is a premium theme with full responsive layout.
Magnovus
Magnovus is a premium theme full responsive layout. The theme comes with rating feature so that users can rate the articles. You can change the color schemes from the options panel.
SimplePress
If you want to give your blog a clean and professional look, you can use this theme. The theme features a beautiful slider on homepage and fully funcitonal gallery pages.
Responsive
Responsive as the name suggests is a responsive theme that is available for free and its highly customizable theme.
Blocked
Blocked is responsive theme which gives extreme attention to details.
Vimes
Designers and photographers always have a huge list of themes to choose from. Vimes is one such theme which is designed especially for design agencies, photographers and artists. Although its designed for designers and artists but it can be easily used for other sites and also as a blog layout.
Origin Mag
Origin Mag powerful yet clean theme with complete responsiveness. Homepage is customizable and it includes custom widgets.
Tint
Tint is extremely beautiful theme that gives tour site a professional touch.
Vistuoso
Vistuoso is a flexible theme especially crafted for portfolio sites. Its features are different layout options, custom post types and page templates.
Canvas
Canvas is a highly customizable theme. Its layout and typography can be easily customized as per your requirements using the options panel.
Queed
Queed is a WordPress theme designed specially for portfolio display. With its sleek and modern layout, its not difficult to setup a website now.
Aries
Aries gives all the features that a company need. Its a premium minimalist theme with drag and drop page building options.
Spacing
Spacing is a responsive WordPress theme. Its layout is suitable for web design portfolios and business websites. The theme comes with a powerful documentation so that you can quickly setup your site.
Infinity
Infinity comes to rescue when you want to showcase your work and you want a minimal and responsive theme. The unique features of the theme are project filtering and infinite scrolling for blog posts.
Portfolio Theme
If you are an artist or yo own a studio and want a clean and minimal theme for your website then you can use Portfolio Theme. The theme features a featured content slider and portfolio page template.
Elemin
Coded with HTML5 and CSS3, Elemin focuses mainly on typography. It makes good balance between white space and content. It also make minimum uses of graphics which means it loads fast.
Backbone
Backbone is a powerful theme framework with numerous child themes. It is ultra clean, minimal and elegant theme.
Galerie
Galerie WordPress theme lets you create your online portfolio with a clean and minimal layout. Professional photographers can use this theme to showcase their work in best possible way.
Molly
Molly is a tumblr like theme for WordPress which can be used by bloggers to share audio, video, images and gallery type content.
Klou
Klou is for portfolio type sites. With its 9 available color schemes you can give it a unique and customized look.
Western
Western is another theme created for sites that publish regular tutorials. It can easily compete with any premium theme as it comes with features like custom post types, custom menu, custom taxonomy and theme options.
Cool collection! I like the Euclides most of all 🙂
Thank you for the collection. Vimes is my favorite.