16 of the best Squarespace templates for blogs, portfolios, stores, and beyond

There are more than 240 options to choose from, so we've narrowed the field.
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Best for online stores

Maca

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Best for bloggers

Mérida

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Best for a personal website/CV

Noll

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Best for photographers

Quincy

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Best for artists

Wells

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Best for graphic designers

Novo

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Best for video

Lange

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Best for coaches and creators

Growwell

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Best for podcasts

Sundew

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Best for local businesses

Colima

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Best for restaurants

Atlantic

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Best for nonprofits

Clarkson

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Best for events

Carmine

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Best for weddings

Soria

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Best for a launch page

Zorayda

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Best for parallax scrolling

Brine

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Squarespace is an all-in-one platform for creating and customizing mobile-friendly websites. With intuitive drag-and-drop building elements and a vast selection of ultra-modern templates that eliminate the need for coding knowledge, it's easy to see why it's a preferred pick for many first-time website owners.

Truthfully, the hardest part about designing a Squarespace site is often just choosing one of those templates — there are over 240 of them across Squarespace versions 7.0 and 7.1, the two iterations of the platform it currently supports, with more added every few months. How do you decide which one to use for your oil painting portfolio, your Taiwanese-American food blog, or the online store for your cool-girl jeans? (Those are all different kinds of websites that have been made with Squarespace, FYI.)

If you're seriously stuck, you can try your hand at creating your own template from scratch using Squarespace Blueprint, a five-step design system that walks users through professionally curated layout options, font pairings, and color palettes. (It's new as of May 2023.) But for those who need a little extra guidance, we've rounded up 16 of the best pre-made Squarespace templates for all sorts of sites below.

Note: Most of our recommendations are from Squarespace version 7.1, but we've sprinkled in a few options from version 7.0 that continue to stand out. Templates have been labeled accordingly.

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Maca

Best for online stores

All Squarespace templates support its commerce features, including customized checkout, customer email notifications, and marketing, but you can get your online shop off the ground sooner with a tailor-made template like Maca. (Peep the stockist, FAQ, terms of use, and shipping/return links that are already set up for you in the bottom navigation.) Its layout plays around with color and negative space in a really smart way — it's visually interesting but not distracting. It also gives you tons of different ways to organize your products, with preset sections for featured collections, bestsellers, and sale items.

Honorable mentions: Alameda (7.1), Anise (7.1), Galena (7.1), Hester (7.1), Loam (7.1), Mariana (7.1), Soony (7.1), Skyloop (7.1), and Zaatar (7.1). Check out our dedicated guide to Squarespace templates for online stores to learn more.

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Mérida

Best for bloggers

Mérida is a classic magazine-style template that does a fantastic job of making a lot of text look interesting, breaking it up with different "featured post" grids and banners so you're not just staring at a huge wall of words. For this reason, it keeps its menus pretty simple — just a couple of navigation links and social icons that don't compete with your content. Anyone who prefers browsing and reading in Dark Mode will appreciate its posts' white-on-black formatting, which looks super elegant and modern.

Honorable mentions: Brower (7.1), Fillmore (7.1), Forte (7.0), Idrah (7.1), Rivoli (7.1), and Stanton (7.1). Check out our dedicated guide to Squarespace templates for blogging to learn more.

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Noll

Best for a personal website/CV

A personal website can make it easier for companies and recruiters to find you, and a template like Noll will add some much-needed "wow" factor. It works really well as a one-page site with a bio, a brief summary of your qualifications, your work experience/skills, and a headshot, but you can also add dedicated pages for testimonials, reviews, and a contact form. Either way, it looks very trendy (dare we say millennial-chic?) with serif fonts and a peach/scarlet color scheme.

Honorable mentions: Hart (7.1), Otto (7.1), Pursuit (7.0), and Waverly (7.1).

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Quincy

Best for photographers

Working photographers barely need to make any changes to the demo version of Quincy: It's got a show-stopping landing page, a pretty portfolio page with changing full-bleed background images, and easy-to-find social icons. But the very best part is its contact page: It's got a ready-made Acuity Scheduling block (a premium Squarespace feature) where potential clients can schedule different kinds of sessions and submit their contact information. It'll make scheduling a breeze so you can spend more time doing what you love (actually taking pictures) and less time trying to get booked.

Honorable mentions: Elliot (7.1), Forte (7.0), Laurie (7.1), Nevins (7.1), Ortiz (7.1), Quinn (7.1), Reseda (7.1), and Tepito (7.1).

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Wells

Best for artists

Wells is a light and airy template that's been around since 2012, and it's a true oldie-but-goodie for creative types. Its simple homepage features a scrollable grid-style gallery that presents a nice overview of your work. Users can click on each thumbnail to see the full-size version with a title or caption — feel free to wax poetic about your process or inspiration there. Wells also supports store pages if you want to start selling prints, but it can easily stand on its own as a basic portfolio site.

Honorable mentions: Beaumont (7.1), Flatiron (7.0), Matsuya (7.1), Minetta (7.1), and Pazari (7.1). Check out our dedicated guide to Squarespace templates for artists to learn more.

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Novo

Best for graphic designers

Novo is a newer, bolder black-and-white template that's well-suited for a graphic or product design portfolio. This one also puts your work front and center in a grid on the home page — we like that there's a hover-over effect for each title — then whisks users away to project-specific pages with brief descriptions and full-bleed banner images. Modern icons for your Dribbble, Vimeo, and Instagram accounts are already in the top and bottom navigation bars, so you just need to add your links.

Honorable mentions: Cami (7.1), Kester (7.1), Utica (7.1), and York (7.0).

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Lange

Best for video

Lange is another older template that's stood the test of time thanks to its show-stopping homepage, which makes it easy to weave a compelling narrative into your portfolio. Visitors to your site are welcomed with full-bleed banner images that you can swap for GIFs or clips, which link off to individual pages that dive deeper into each project; hover-over and fade-in animation effects keep things interesting as you scroll. A simple one-column blog and a basic contact page are both found in the top navigation menu.

Honorable mentions: Lexington (7.1) and Otroquest (7.1). Check out our dedicated guide to Squarespace templates for video to learn more.

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Growwell

Best for coaches and creators

Growwell is a bright, cheery template that's capable of handling a lot of text and visuals without looking cluttered. It also comes with a special twist: It's pre-enabled with Squarespace's premium Member Areas feature, which lets you create gated content on your site — think virtual classes, workshops, newsletters, vlogs, and 1:1s. (It can be free to sign up with an email address or locked behind a membership fee; your call). This makes it ridiculously easy to monetize your content and expertise while building a community.

Honorable mentions: Meriden (7.1), Myhra (7.1), Passero (7.1), and Ready (7.0).

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Sundew

Best for podcasts

With groovy gradients and matching sunburst accents, Squarespace's Sundew template is on point with recent '70s-inspired design trends. Its demo site eagerly awaits your podcast: There's a spot for your freshest episode right at the top, followed by a banner with your tagline, a grid of recent episodes, a prompt to sign up for your newsletter or email list, and a blurb about the host(s) that directs to a more in-depth bio page. Each individual episode page gets its own audio block so listeners can tune in without having to leave the site, though links to your Spotify, Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, and Google Podcasts pages have been scattered throughout in case they prefer a different platform.

Honorable mentions: Paloma (7.1).

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Colima

Best for local businesses

Looking for a template that translates website visitors into in-person clients? Colima's where it's at, with pages for your services, team, location, and blog, and lots of calls to action (i.e., chances for conversion). As the cherry on top, it comes pre-enabled with an Acuity Scheduling block, which makes it extremely easy to book and manage appointments — clients can quickly see your availability, pay online, and even reschedule, while you're able to automate reminders and create intake forms (among other bookkeeping tasks) in the back end.

Honorable mentions: Clove (7.1), Clune (7.1), and Emmeline (7.1).

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Atlantic

Best for restaurants

Another template that would make a great one-pager, Atlantic is ready to go for a restaurant: It kicks off with an "about" section featuring all of your most important info (location, hours, etc.), followed by a rotating image gallery and pre-formatted sections for two different menus. You'll also find a "reservations" page with an OpenTable block; bonus points for the Yelp icon in the social widget, too. The color scheme keeps things simple with black text on a white background so as not to distract from the mouth-watering pictures of your plates.

Honorable mentions: Blend (7.1), Chotto (7.1), Hill (7.1), Juniper (7.1), Palmer (7.1), Pine (7.1), and Vance (7.1).

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Clarkson

Best for nonprofits

Clarkson is a clean and minimalist template with a soothing neutral color palette and full-bleed banner images. (That sans-serif typeface Squarespace chose for the demo version is also really nice — it's super easy to read on mobile.) It would realistically make a great online store or business website, though it's already formatted for a nonprofit or community organization with "donate" and "volunteer" prompts, a grid-style blog for all of your initiatives, and all relevant socials. All it really needs is your branding.

Honorable mentions: Bailard (7.1), Lusaka (7.1), and Malone (7.1).

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"Minimalist, but make it bold" is probably how we'd describe Carmine, an eye-catching template for big events with a two-color scheme and in-your-face typography. Pages for your speakers/performers, lineup/schedule, and blog/news releases are already set up — plus, the tickets section gives you the option of selling several different packages. This one doesn't rely too heavily on visuals, but the images that are there get a really neat reverse-split animation effect as you scroll.

Honorable mentions: Harbor (7.1), Ocotillo (7.1), Roseti (7.1), Singularity (7.1), and Sonora (7.0).

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Soria

Best for weddings

If you're not a fan of those cookie-cutter wedding websites on The Knot, Minted, and Zola, Squarespace's Soria template makes it possible to build one from scratch in no time. It features a top navigation menu (with your story, travel details, registry info, and an RSVP button) that stays with you on the page as you scroll — that way, all of your technologically challenged relatives will have an easy time finding their way around. It's also quite photo-heavy so you can show off all of the highlights from your engagement shoot.

Honorable mentions: Bleecker (7.1), Dario (7.1), Julia (7.0), Rey (7.1), and Malcolm (7.1).

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Zorayda

Best for a launch page

Got something new in the works? It doesn't need to be a full-on, fleshed-out website yet — just make a pre-launch landing page (also known as a coming soon page) with the help of a template like Zorayda to stake its claim on the web. Featuring a light background and some simple sans-serif typefaces, the demo version has spots for all of your must-know info, a standalone image, and a newsletter/email block where visitors can sign up for updates. It's worth noting that this one's a version 7.1 template, which means you can easily switch themes down the road without losing any of your content.

Honorable mentions: Randi (7.1), Sellwood (7.1), Tantillo (7.1), and Toledo (7.1).

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Brine

Best for parallax scrolling

We have to give a shout-out to good ol' Brine, the parent template of the eponymous family from Squarespace version 7.0: It remains a fan favorite to this day for its use of parallax scrolling, a special visual effect on full-bleed banner images that creates an illusion of depth. (As we mentioned earlier, this feature isn't available in version 7.1.) The demo site comes prepped for an online store, but you've got the option to add a blog, an events page, galleries, and much more.

Note: If you like Brine but don't want to be stuck with version 7.0, give Hester a shot — it's Brine's 7.1 equivalent (again, minus the parallax).

Honorable mentions: Literally anything else in the Brine family (7.0).

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How we tested

I sifted through Squarespace's entire template library (across versions 7.0 and 7.1) and looked for demos with eye-catching layouts, mobile-friendly style options, user-friendly navigation, and a relevant roster of preset features. I didn't build a live, full-fledged site with every single template featured here, but I'm confident in my picks based on my personal and professional experience making websites with Squarespace, as well as my background in art and design. I acknowledge that many aspects of design are subjective, so each recommended template is accompanied by at least one "honorable mention" with similar functionality but different aesthetics.

Frequently Asked Questions


After fast and easy site design, the best thing about Squarespace is its all-in-one approach: Your subscription plan includes 24/7 customer support, website metrics, SEO tools, SSL security, unlimited bandwidth, and video storage, all for as low as $16 a month. Squarespace also throws in fully managed cloud hosting at no extra cost, along with a year's worth of a new custom domain if you sign up for an annual membership — no need to set anything else up with another provider or platform.


A Squarespace template (or theme) is a pre-designed, ready-to-use demo website that you can customize with different color schemes, font packs, layouts, pages, and drag-and-drop element blocks such as text, images, galleries, buttons, and forms. Squarespace describes them as "a starting point to help inspire your site's design," noting that "[you] can keep the structure of your original design intact by replacing the demo content with your own, or you can completely change the design of your site and start from scratch." You can do as much or as little customizing as you'd like; your site will look polished either way.

Each template has been built exclusively for Squarespace, which means you won’t find them on WordPress, Wix, or other site-building platforms.


All Squarespace templates are mobile-optimized from the jump, which is great for two big reasons: Your site looks nice on all devices, and Google looks upon it favorably for search rankings.

Templates from Squarespace version 7.0 have separate mobile styles that activate on smaller devices, while their version 7.1 counterparts adapt to mobile view automatically. (More on those below.) Check out Squarespace's tips for keeping your site mobile-friendly before you build it out.


Launched in 2014, Squarespace version 7.0 categorizes its 91 templates into certain template "families," which are groups of similarly coded templates alike in their basic structure and functionality. Each one has its specific rules and style options, so you may need to swap templates (and risk losing content) to access certain functionality. For example, infinite scroll is exclusive to the Farro and Skye template families, while only Wells and Five allow sidebars on all of their pages, not just blogs.

Squarespace scrapped those hard-and-fast classifications with the release of version 7.1 in early 2020. All of its 140-plus templates now belong to the same family with the same underlying structure and design options, which makes it easier to change site styles in seconds.

While neither version of Squarespace is conclusively "better" than the other, version 7.1 is more ideal for people who are new to the platform since it aggressively streamlines the design process, especially since the July 2022 rollout of Fluid Engine. That's Squarespace's next-gen content editor for 7.1 sites, which utilizes a grid system and additional block placement options for improved layout flexibility (particularly on mobile).

Users who have built a Squarespace site before may still have good reason to stick with version 7.0 since its templates have some advanced style options that haven't been added to the new ones yet. (See: parallax scrolling, one especially popular feature of the beloved Brine template family that's missing from version 7.1; people were pretty salty about that one.)

One caveat: Switching between versions 7.0 and 7.1 requires a full rebuild and can mess with your site's search ranking, so choose wisely. On the bright side, Squarespace offers a free 14-day trial so you can noodle around with both before you commit.


To get started with a new site, head over to the Templates tab on Squarespace's website and filter its library by Type and Topic to narrow down your pool of candidates. You can hit "Preview" on any theme that catches your eye to see what it would look like in the wild.

Squarespace suggests choosing a template based on your favorite colors and layouts rather than the demo content you see there, though you might find it easier to pick one that already looks close-ish to your end vision. For example, a template with a grid of products on its homepage (like Maca) can become your online store in a matter of clicks, whereas a template designed around event RSVPs (like Carmine) will take more noodling for ecommerce purposes.

If you're having trouble settling on one, know this: It's basically impossible to make an ugly Squarespace site, and with enough time and experimentation, you can tweak almost any template to fit your exact vision and needs. (Or, again, you could just build your own.)


Structural and formatting differences aside, all Squarespace templates (between both versions of the platform) support the same suite of features. Highlights include:

It's worth mentioning that Squarespace also maintains three mobile apps that are free with any subscription or trial. They work with both versions of the site, too:

  • The main Squarespace app (available for iOS and Android) supports on-the-go writing, editing, updates, commerce, and analytics.

  • The Squarespace Video Studio app (available for iOS) makes it possible to create professional-quality videos with audio narration, animated text, and licensed music — think of it as a TikTok or Instagram Reels alternative.

  • The Squarespace Unfold app (available for iOS and Android) is designed for creating sharable content for social media, including stories and Linktree-style Bio Sites.


As of April 2023, Squarespace users can no longer connect their Twitter accounts to the platform, push their content to Twitter, or add new Twitter blocks because of "recent changes to Twitter's API," according to a page on its Help Center. (CMS giant WordPress also dropped Twitter social sharing for similar reasons.) However, this doesn't mean Squarespace and Twitter are completely incompatible. You can still:

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