A minimalist design is not the same as a simple one.

Quote from Dave Eggers :

What very few designers realize, particularly the younger ones, is that most people would rather read something—actually read the words—than look at all of their lines and arrows and silly pictures they’ve screened back.

When the words finally reach the reader, the designer has, as often as not, rendered them almost unreadable, and so a reader moves on. But we’ve always felt that the words don’t need a whole lot of help—that a piece about searching for tigers in Ireland is not necessarily needing of a picture of tigers or of Ireland, much less blinking or screened-back ones. The words are enough, if the words are good.

Barecity

White As Milk

Hemingway Reloaded

Hiperminimalist

Simpla

Way Too Clean

Man~ja

Burnfield

The Simple Life

Zen Minimalist

If you’d like to read better words than mine on minimalism, I suggest reading Minimalistic Design at Simpl(e)y Done. It’s a great post and a good thread of comments, too.

But if you’re swaying away from minimalism, you might check out CoXis’s Best WordPress Themes (via Silkjaer).

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