Minimalism has been a popular website design style for years. It has so many benefits; minimalist sites load faster, take fewer server resources, and are often faster to develop than more graphically complicated designs. Plus, they give a professional, clean impression to visitors. Many people still view minimalist designs as boring. But there’s a real art to effective minimal website designs, something not all designers can effectively master. When you limit the number of graphic elements you use and put the focus on negative space and typography, a good eye for spacing and proportion becomes crucial.
Haswell
It is a cross browser compatible, retina ready, responsive HTML5 /CSS3 template with touch support that features a clean and unique design that is multi-purpose template which is suitable for a wide variety of websites. Tons of Customizations are possible with this template that’ll help you redefine your website’s brand value.
Effe – A Free HTML Template
So, this freebie is a HUGE one. I’m giving away a free HTML theme with a lot of cool features and a clean cut an minimalistic design!
Studio8
An elegant and minimalist template for a design studio or photo studio. The theme has a fullscreen background gallery for featured work, twitter ticker, jquery paginated portfolio layout and blog, awsome hover effect, and an ajax contact form. The template offers a quick and easy setup.
Centita
Centita HTML Template, minimalist and elegan look it’s suitable for your professional corporate website.
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Vulcan
It is designed Modern and minimalist template, with easy to change the color and header image to suit any kind of website. Vulcan available in six color option, it comes with three variations homepage.
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Crown
This is a responsive HTML template. Designed Modern and minimalist template, Crown available in six color option, it comes with design layout is unique and fresh, easy to customize.
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Space
This is a creative one-page template that includes everything for portfolio and business use.
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Minibuzz
This is a simple, clean and minimalist business html template suitable for company, business, portfolio and corporate sites.
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Cleanex
This is a simple, clean and minimalist business html template suitable for company, business, portfolio and corporate sites. This template also perfect for blog, portfolio and personal sites.
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Minimalistic Studio
It is a minimal and very clean template. It has a fade in and out featured section in the home page, has a jquery tab on the sidebar and it has a 15 color style variation.
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Perfekto
It is a simple, clean and minimalist html template suitable for portfolio, gallery and photography websites.
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Vilisya
Vilisya available on 6 color options that you can choose.
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Mygen
Mygen HTML Template, minimalist and simple look.
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Minerva
It is designed Modern and minimalist template with many features. Minerva comes with two variations homepage, three portfolio and services page of interest.
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Helios
This template designed modern minimalist with two options are wide and the boxed version, comes with three beautiful slider increments as well as other supporting page layout that suits your needs.
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Equator
Equator template is designed Modern and minimalist template look it’s suitable for your professional corporate website, business portfolio, or anything website.
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Reducto
A clean, minimalist portfolio/blog HTML /CSS template with a number of added features.
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Genova
This is a content centered design template. It hides all the secondary information but shows them on demand (mouse over or tab at a touch screen using jQuery).Less is more is the design principle on which the template is based on. With that idea it became one of the most minimalistic but at the same time well equipped templates in this store.
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Classic Theme
The concept of this template is to provide a simple, clean and minimalist template with easy to change the color and header image to suit any kind of website.
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Express
This is a simple, clean and minimalist business html template.
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Terminal Velocity
This is a clean, simple and minimalistic single page portfolio theme. It uses the rock solid jQuery framework for its interactive tasks.
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istudio
It is clean, elegant and minimalist html template that can be switched as business, corporate, portfolio and blogging theme.
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ovum
It is clean and minimalist corporate and business html template that can also be switched as portfolio and blogging theme.
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Simple Style
Simple Style is a clean minimalistic template. It can be used for a business or portfolio website. Includes several jQuery plugins, a PHP contact form and PSD file.This theme can be used with 1, 2 or 3 columns. It includes 8 coded pages.
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Epsilon
It is best suitable for a Hosting Business, Company, Blog, Portfolio. Comes with two options of hosting theme and business theme.
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Minimal Coming Soon
It is carefully designed with attention to the details. Your visitors will love it. It contains lots of features while keeping its stylish minimal look. Pick only what you want and customize it the any way you want.
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Storm
It is a stunning full screen background template with a custom full screen gallery, perfect for showing off your visual work or perhaps you would just like to use images to sell yourself,
what ever you do!
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Nostalgia
It is a HTML portfolio template for personal or corporate, based on full-screen slider and sliding pages. The template is maintained in a minimalist, contrasting style. Background images kept in retro tones contrast with modern minimalist content.
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Prime
It is minimal & simple template designed to emphasize and present your products which could be suitable for almost all kinds of business .
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Design Agency Template
This is a straight forward, serious and clean website design for studio, design or communications agency.
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Themis
It is a minimal corporate template related to law, business, investment etc. Home page is based on five vertical tabs with possibility to add unlimited number of additional tabs.
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tooolip
This theme is a clean, fresh, lightweight design, which can be used for every type of beauty and health business.
SlickApp
It is a clean and minimalistic theme that can be used for any iPhone / Android / Mobile app site. The theme features clean design elements, custom graphics, an ajax contact form and 5 jQuery-tabbed pages.
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Lemon
Lemon is a portfolio oriented, high contrast HTML template designed in a clean and minimalistic style. It has a responsive layout that looks great on mobile and tablet devices.
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Nullfolio
It is a web-app-like, sing-page portfolio theme that incorporates minimalism.
Purity: Clean, Minimal & Bold Website Template
It is a Clean and Minimal HTML /CSS website template with a BOLD feel that can be easily used as a personal portfolio or a business website.
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Opal
It is a personal HTML portfolio template based on full-screen slider and menu of pictograms. Template is maintained in a minimalist style and contains typical descriptive pages like services, about page with slider, portfolio and blog pages based on timeline, contact page with map of location and working contact form.
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Simple Transitions Portfolio
This portfolio is a stylish way to show off your work. Smooth animated transitions (fade in/out) take you from your portfolio categories to a gallery of your work.
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Starlight Reponsive Admin Template
It is a new admin template with many features, plugins and custom elements that you can use fo your backend projects. This template is very useful for any type of application whether for desktop or mobile devices.
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Zoom Premium HTML Portfolio + Blog
Zoom is the ultimate portfolio and product showcase theme. This theme is optimized for touch on the iPad and even supports keyboard control (arrow keys and spacebar).
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Simple Mobile template
It is a website template designed for mobile devices, especially iPhone.It can be used parallel with regular version of website and presented to mobile users only.
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Easy Portfolio
Easy Portfolio is a very simple portfolio template with a javascript scrolling feature based on jQuery (see live preview). The meaning of the minimalist design is to focus user attention on the content (your works).
ISO Photography Portfolio
The theme that turns your monitor into a gallery. ISO is a complete, modern portfolio designed to showcase your work online, while providing all the details potential customers need to get to know you and your work.Minimal typography and highlighted frames ensure your photos are the star.
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Identity
Identity is a modern, clean and minimalist one-page website for your online identity.
Performs
It is a simple, clean and modern HTML Template for corporate business and ecommerce.
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TypeLine
It is a minimal Portfolio/Blog/Business site with a ton of layout and style options for really anything you could need.
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HUD Premium HTML5 Template
The ideal portfolio or product showcase theme, HUD let’s you choose the exact colors, patterns, or background images you want!
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NotifyMe
It is a very simple one page website. It comes with one HTML file, one CSS file, some images and the fully sliced PSD source file.
Cleancorp
It is a clean and professional html template for corporate, business and company website.
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Consultant
It is a beautifully clean and professional business html template to present your work in a professional manner with a timeless design.
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Queen Hotel
It is a clean, classic and elegant html template suitable for hotel and travel website.
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Columbia Corporate Theme with Product Showcase
Columbia Corporate Theme v1.2 HTML /CSS Site Template best suited for business, corporate and service websites.
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Polyon
It is truly a HTML Template of the next generation. It is extremly customizable, it supports unlimited colors and the whole Google Web Font Directory plus integrated fonts.
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Devster
Devster HTML Template, simple and elegan template that would be great for a web portfolio or business website, You can choose 5 variations skins template.
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SevenWonders
It is a clean and modern HTML Templae that Fully Responsive, which mean the layout will adapt depending on the device screen size.
wonderful collection of minimlist website templates. I like minimalist website due to its simplicity and it looks great.
Great collection! Thanks for assembling these into one easy to scan collection!
Like the collection, I found another nice minimal template, which may help other readers as well http://designstub.com/adriya-minimal-creative-onepage-bootstrap-template/