Not only did Ghost launch a few years ago, it launched big, really big. No other CMS over the last few years has received such universal acclaim and been able to generate such excitement. Not since WordPress anyway.
What does make Ghost great? And why is it such a good alternative to other CMSs? That is easy, it is purely the simplicity it offers.
All of the free themes we have for you below embodies everything that Ghost represents – a simple platform that puts all of the focus onto your great content. The themes are all lightweight, minimal, have beautiful typography and all are a solid foundation for creating your own theme.
As well as styled themes, at the bottom of the post we have also included a selection of blank themes to help make things easier for you guys to get started creating your own Ghost themes.
Vapor By Seth Lilly
Vapor is a minimal and responsive Ghost blogging theme with a strong focus on typography. Fonts have been embedded via Google Fonts, including Roboto Slab, Merriweather, and Open Sans Condensed.
GhostScroll By Yonatan Wolowelsky
GhostScroll is a lightweight Ghost theme specially for those people who want to create quick and simple one-page websites for personal or promotional uses.
Readium By Sven Read
Readium, built with LESS, has been been designed to bring you the readability and user experience of Medium.com by including much of the text formatting features that Medium offers.
Ghost Theme By Adam Cooke
Ghost Theme By Designing Sean
Ghostwriter By Rory G.
Ghostwriter is a simple AJAX driven theme for Ghost.
Ghostless By Stefan Leonte
Ghostless is a port from the WordPress theme Less to Ghost, but with a personal spin from Stefan.
Solar By Matt Harzewski
Solar is based on the Solarized color palette. It includes stylesheets for the default light-on-dark version, and for the alternate dark-on-light one.
Ghost Theme Based on UiKIT
Ghost Theme Based on UiKIT Download Page →
Albireo By Marco Santonocito
Albireo Download Page →Demo Download Page →
Aura By Tom Kenny
SŁIMPØST By Dmitriy S.
SŁIMPØST Download Page →
Magnum By Durgesh Priyaranjan
Blank & Starter Ghost Themes
Ghost Blank from Daniel Riemer →
This theme contains all of the necessary files for your own theme design including templates for homepage and posts and a CSS file with custom reset and some basic styling.
Phantom Yeti – Starter Theme Built on Foundation →
Phantom Yeti is a starter theme built on the Foundation framework. The theme is loaded with all of Foundation's SASS and Javascript components and is preloaded with Foundicons Enclosed and the social icon set.
Boostrap Ghost Theme from Matt Lambert →
This is starter Ghost theme with Twitter Bootstrap integration. Bootstrap 3 has been included, and all the components, styles, etc… are available for use.
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