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

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.

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.

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).

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).

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.

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).

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.

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

"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).

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).

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).

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).