Typography focused website designs allow you to catch all users’ attention with content and make them stuck for hours reading and browsing the pages of your blog. That’s why, if you are a blogger or you’d like to launch an online magazine or newspaper, take a look at this WP theme collection.
We’ve hand-picked the best typography-focused WordPress themes for portfolios, business websites, blogs, and multiple other concepts. Just see and enjoy!
Groovy – Modern & Lightweight Blog for WordPress
Groovy is a unique and ultra-modern blog theme created by EstudioPatagon, designed to reflect the latest trends. With a strong emphasis on speed and vivid colors, it is ideal for any type of blog, particularly personal, travel, technology, comics/anime, or biography blogs. Groovy offers two layout schemes, “Solid Border” and “Soft Shadow,” to perfectly complement any type of imagery.
This lightweight theme requires only one plugin for all its features. It employs multiple techniques to achieve excellent scores on Google Insights, ensuring high code quality and SEO optimization. Groovy is easy to use and customize, featuring 11 custom widgets and a powerful Theme Options Panel to simplify administration.
Groovy is fully compatible with AMP in Transitional Mode (covering home, archives, author, and single post pages) and supports multiple languages, including English and Spanish. Additionally, you can easily translate the theme into any language you desire.
Maktub – Minimal & Lightweight Blog for WordPress
Maktub is a clean, fast, minimalist, and lightweight blog theme designed by EstudioPatagon with a strong focus on speed and typography. This modern, text-centric theme features a unique “text-mode” that significantly enhances your website’s rendering time, making it an ideal choice for various types of blogs, particularly personal, travel, technology, and biography blogs.
Maktub’s lightweight nature requires just one plugin for all its features, ensuring a streamlined and efficient experience. The theme employs multiple techniques to achieve outstanding scores on Google Insights, prioritizing both code quality and SEO optimization. It is easy to use and customize, featuring 11 custom widgets and a powerful Theme Options Panel that simplifies administration.
The theme is fully compatible with AMP in Transitional Mode, covering home, archives, author, and single post pages. Maktub supports multiple languages, including English, Spanish, French, and Turkish, and offers easy translation capabilities to any language you need. With its modern design and robust functionality, Maktub provides an exceptional platform for creating a standout blog that delivers superior performance and user experience.
Digitax – SEO & Digital Marketing Agency WordPress Theme
This is important to pay attention to typographic hierarchy when you are creating content for your website. Hierarchy means using different sizes, styles, weights of typefaces to create a consistent flow of your text as well as assign different importance to different pieces of text. For instance, heading and subheading are always bold and a bit larger than regular paragraphs.
This is an SEO digital marketing WordPress theme suited for agencies and marketers. The template is based on the Elementor page builder which allows you to easily build header, footer, or page structure using the drag-and-drop interface. more features of the theme include wide and boxed layouts, unlimited colors, typography options, and much more.
Alfena – SaaS Startup WordPress Theme
Don’t choose more than two fonts for your website not to create confusion and dissonance in the overall look of your web-page design. It’s essential to select fonts from one font family to make them complement each other while creating a bit different style.
This is a WordPress theme suited for SEO, SaaS, digital, agency, or landing websites. It comes with 2 homepage layouts with different designs, different pre-made inner pages like blog layouts, galleries, services, pricing tables, and more. The template also comes integrated with King Composer page builder, Slider Revolution, Contact Form 7, and has a lot of features including WPML multilingual support, and more.
Marlow – Distinctive, Typography-First WordPress Blog Theme
Everyone knows of the importance to choose the right typography for a blog, but not everyone knows the history of fonts and typefaces they use. For instance, Gill Sans – the best selling typeface of the 20th century was created in 1928 by Eric Gill who was not only a typeface designer but also a sculptor, printmaker, and stone-carver. This font was classified as “humanist” sans-serif face and it was meant to be legible both for display and text.
Take a look at this stylish typography-first WordPress theme specially made for personal streamlined blogs. The features of the theme include advanced admin panel, 3 main and 3 post layouts, unlimited color schemes – using color pickers, 5 post formats, main and footer menus, hide/show most post elements option, custom background images, and more features.
Anotte – Horizontal Photography WordPress Theme
A specimen book of Linotype faces called Big Red was issued in 1939. This was the book contained more than a thousand pages of type specimens for hand-composed headlines and texts made with linotype machines. There were also the specimens for model ads and announcements where ornaments and borders were used in a great amount.
There are lots of WordPress themes focused on typography, and Anotte is one of them. This is a lightning-fast WP template with a horizontal scroll, and it is specifically designed for photography websites. It comes with a child theme included, horizontal and vertical portfolio post layouts, unlimited carousel sliders and simple image sliders, a shortcode generator, and many more features.
PepperMint – Creative WordPress Theme for Blogs/Mini-Magazines
When selecting the right typography for your website, it’s important to consider the main concerns because the typography affects the overall design. For instance, when choosing two different typefaces for your website, it’s important to choose those that are similar in x-height (the height of the lowercase letter body). This will create consistency and harmony in your design.
This is a nice blogging and mini-magazine WordPress theme with a modern look and a strong focus on typography. You can take it to use for lifestyle blogs, fashion magazines, and more related websites. Features of the theme include minimal and clean design, 3 unique headers, 4 footer widgets, footer Instagram, 6 unique banners (boxed and fullwidth), and much more.
Park – Creative Portfolio WordPress Theme
Another thing to consider when choosing typography is kerning. Kerning is the space between letters as well as the process of adjusting letters to create the correct volume of space to avoid gaps or squeezed look of the text. Sometimes it’s necessary to tighten or loosen the kerning for creating a more attractive look of your posts. This is especially important when dealing with headlines and logos.
This minimal and clean WP theme is made for creating a cool portfolio and presenting your photography works in the best manner. It comes with a child theme included, portfolio post type, simple image slider and gallery, shortcode generator, easy translations.POT, Contact Form 7 support, easy customization, and many more advantages.
Janice – A Responsive WordPress Blog and Shop Theme
Measure is another characteristic that is important when you think about the best typography for your website. The measure is the line length and it should be adjusted either to make it longer or shorter depending on your design and the overall harmony. The harmony of photography and typography is observed in this WordPress theme.
This elegant WordPress theme is focused on content and intended for creating a beautiful blog or shop on the Web. It comes with a multitude of homepage layouts including such as classic, standard, list, grid, boxed, texton, and some more. The theme also has a tremendous amount of features including a mega menu, different post formats, color options, Contact Form 7, and many more.
Ocularus – Minimal Photography WordPress Theme
The alignment of your typography also affects the readability of your text. Left alignment is the most popular one because it makes your copy easier to read. Center alignment is only appropriate when you create a poster or branding, as for the right alignment, this is mostly used for epigraphs. When it comes to the justified text, this is more suitable for multi-column layouts.
This WordPress theme is a minimal-looking design made for photography websites and focused on typography. The template comes with Child Theme Included, Portfolio Post Type, Google Web Fonts, Image Slider and carousel sliders, shortcode generator, translation ready origin, easy customization, and many more advantages.
Tracking is also required to take into consideration to make a copy look perfect. Tracking is almost the same as kerning but it relates to the whole word spacing and this is managed after you’ve already done with kerning. Tracking defines the spacing between letters which is required to check and correct after your kerning is made perfect.
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