A blank WordPress theme to start your next custom WordPress theme from. Available as both a responsive and static theme. Using the 960 Grid. Built Around HTML5 Boilerplate. Insanely Detailed & Organized CSS File. Easy to Customize & Expand Upon.

Exhibition Theme is clean and modern WordPress theme with a blog like design. Great theme for artists to showcase their portfolio and blog about their work. Check out the demo page or the theme video provided to see how it works.

Great tips from the Envato team on what to look for when buying or creating a premium WordPress theme. This screencast details the process that each reviewer takes at Envato when reviewing new submissions. Everything from unique/proper design, coding quality, validation, psd, documentation and licensing.

"The Morning After is a magazine-style theme for WordPress created by Arun Kale. The theme was created based on a brief survey on the WordPress forums about what people would want to see in a unique magazine-style theme.

• Clean grid-based design
• Detailed installation docs and customisation
• Support for WordPress widgets
• Three-column home page
• “Featured” post highlighting
• Recent posts w automatic thumbnails
• Customisable logo/header image
• Support WP’s in-built image wrapping classes
• Threaded comments
• Support for asides
• Support for Gravatars
• Option for readers to email posts to friends
• Print-friendly view to print posts"

"FrogsThemes.com celebrates it's launch in style by offering you this Wordpress Portfolio Theme absolutely FREE!

Easy to reskin, all three themes contain no template images, all styling is done through the CSS file. No complicated and restrictive custom fields to handle. Low file size, ultra quick loading. Cross browser tested, even IE6 displays a neat looking portfolio. Ideal for all types of portfolio, FolioGrid is a creatives blank canvas"

"Acosmin5, as you might remember it, is a simple wordpress theme with nice lines and typography, which can be used on a personal or any type of blog. Some of the theme’s features are: Five color schemes, Simple control panel, jQuery Tabs system, Multiple advertising spots, Lightweight"

"In this post we are glad to release DesignPile WordPress Theme, a theme designed by Site 5 and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The theme comes with 3 color styles and a couple of jQuery-based goodies. It can be used for portfolios and blogs as well as corporate webAs usual, the theme is free to use in private and commerical projects."

"A free wordpress theme. Black Stone is a 2 column theme with theme options. The theme is released under GPL License and you can use it for all your projects for free and without any restrictions."

"This theme was designed with the main focus being on typography, clean look and simplicity. The theme is released under GPL."

"A clean dark theme, built with customization in mind. Seo friendly and semantically built using the Carrington Framework."

aero inspired transparent themes (free ones on the right)

"Rainmeter 1.0 not only includes the latest version of the very popular Enigma desktop, it has a theme manager and configuration tool—so you can set up a killer desktop without a line of code."

"A coat of Chrome for Firefox. Chromifox is a bright and soft blue theme for Firefox on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, inspired by the appearance of the Google Chrome browser and its open source roots, Chromium."

"The design comes in Aqua-Marine Blue’s as well as white and subtle use of gray. This is a two column magazine style layout for wordpress. Quite unique with a dynamic main banner that includes your latest 4 featured posts. The design is in black and muted grays in a 2 column interface, which has been fully tested and is xHTML compliant."

"These themes are taken from Gnome look and you can see their screenshot and find the downland link next to it."