Tumblr has been the go-to place for bloggers, inspiration finders, and creatives for years as a way of posting to the web. With that popularity came a whole culmination of themes. Themes varying from grid-based, portfolio style, and even ones specifically made for writers.
Today we’ve rounded up a collection of over 50 of the best Tumblr themes, designs, and templates for you to browse through. Some of these are free, and some are commercial. Pick one of your favorite Tumblr backgrounds, make your own design tweaks and enjoy. We hope you find something that fits what you’re looking for!
Calm – Minimalist Tumblr Theme
Calm is a beautifully minimalist Tumblr theme you can use to build a blog or a portfolio website. The theme features unique designs for each and every post type that highlights its content. It also includes a fullscreen overlay menu, comes with fully customizable colors, fonts, and much more.
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- Price: $19
Agencia – Freelancer & Agency Theme
This premium theme will allow you to make a high-quality Tumblr website for an agency or a creative freelancer. It includes a stylish image slider on the homepage, a featured section with a CTA button, a gallery-style post layout, and it supports all social widgets as well as MailChimp integration.
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- Price: $49
Gradient – Colorful Tumblr Blogging Theme
Gradient is a colorful Tumblr theme you can use to design a beautiful portfolio or a personal blog. You can easily customize the background of this theme to add your own colors and images. The theme features an image slider, a grid-style post layout, and offers lots of customization options.
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- Price: $49
Indy – Tumblr Blogging Theme
Indy is a minimal blogging theme for Tumblr. It features a masonry-style post layout and allows you to use a photo background. It’s perfect for a personal blog or a photo blog.
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- Price: Free
Theme 121 – Tumblr Portfolio Theme
This Tumblr theme is specifically made for portfolios and gallery websites. You can use this free theme to create a photography blog or even a creative portfolio. It’s highly customizable as well.
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- Price: Free
macOS Sierra – Creative Tumblr Theme
This is one of the few creative themes you’ll ever find on Tumblr. This theme basically makes your blog look like the macOS interface. You can drag around those windows and the folders they act as your categories and links.
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- Price: Free
Curly – Portfolio Theme
Curly is a fullscreen portfolio theme for Tumblr. It features large post layouts that are made for showcasing images with large previews. You can also choose between 2-4 column layouts for the posts as well.
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- Price: Free
ImNotWordy – Tumblr Blog Theme
A minimalist Tumblr blogging theme with a grid-style post layout. The theme features a minimal sidebar where you can feature links to social media pages and lets you choose between 3 or 4 column post layouts.
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- Price: Free
Neatfolio – Minimal Portfolio Tumblr Theme
Neatfolio is a minimalist portfolio theme you can use to design a creative portfolio or a resume website on Tumblr. It includes a sidebar where you can introduce yourself and your work, a CTA button to encourage people to contact you and plenty of space to add social widgets.
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- Price: $19
Nara – Masonry-Style Tumblr Theme
Nara is yet another minimal theme featuring a masonry-style grid post layout. This theme is ideal for minimalist bloggers, writers, and creatives. You can also use it as a portfolio as well.
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- Price: Free
Sahara – Tumblr Blog Theme
Sahara is a colorful blogging theme for Tumblr that comes with lots of customization options. It features unique post designs, social media icons, and infinite scrolling.
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- Price: Free
Riptide – Multi-Column Tumblr Theme
Riptide is a modern blogging theme that allows you to create a professional blog on Tumblr. The theme has a clean post layout and comes with a slide-out sidebar for adding widgets and links.
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- Price: Free
Carolaine – Tumblr Blogging Theme
Carolaine is an attractive Tumblr theme featuring a feminine design. It’s perfect for making a beauty, fashion, or health-related blog or a photo blog. The theme features a header as well as a sidebar.
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- Price: Free
Classy – Tumblr Blogging Theme
Classy is a blogging theme made for professionals. It includes a header section where you can include an image, it has a menu for showcasing your tags and features a masonry-style grid-based post layout for highlighting your posts.
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- Price: Free
Uptown – Grid Tumblr Theme
Uptown is a stylish, minimal theme full of gorgeous design detail. You can customise everything. Turn features on and off, choose a grid or standard layout, change every colour and detail, and make Uptown your own!
- Price: $19
- Author: Themelantic
Author – Minimal Tumblr Theme
Author is a beautiful, customizable blank page for you to share your thoughts and ideas. Customise everything, and create your own writing space.
- Price: $19
- Author: Themelantic
Wayfarer – Travel Blog Tumblr Theme
If you’re a fan of travel and love to share your photos and thoughts, this is a great Tumblr theme you can use to setup a travel blog. The theme features a full-background slider, featured posts sections, a profile widget, support for social feeds, and much more.
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- Price: $49
Viena – Minimal Tumblr Theme
Viena is a minimalist Tumblr theme that can be used to create both blogs and portfolios. It has a grid-style post layout with a classical design.
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- Price: Free
Good Grief – Tumblr Blog Theme
This Tumblr theme comes with a unique and a creative design. It’s ideal for making a personal blog for an author or sharing text-based posts.
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- Price: Free
Dusky – Tumblr Portfolio Theme
Dusky is a minimal portfolio theme for Tumblr. It comes with a minimalist design that highlights its content and supports infinite scrolling for easier browsing.
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- Price: Free
Grid – Tumblr Photo Blog Theme
Grid is a theme that’s perfect for making a pop-culture blog or a photo collection website. The theme features a grid-style post layout with a changeable background and infinite scrolling.
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- Price: Free
Library Theme – Creative Tumblr Theme
Another cute and creative Tumblr theme that gives a library feel to your blog. The theme can be used to make a creative portfolio or a personal blog. It’s fully customizable as well.
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- Price: Free
Harold – Tumblr Grid Theme
Harold is a minimal portfolio theme for Tumblr. It comes with a clean design featuring a grid-style post layout, which allows you to properly highlight your content.
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- Price: Free
Aura – Tumblr Portfolio Theme
Aura is a Tumblr blog theme featuring a flat-color design. The theme features a masonry-style grid layout and allows you to create an attractive portfolio or a photo blog.
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- Price: Free
Empati Tamako – Creative Tumblr Theme
This creative theme is perfect for making a portfolio website for an illustrator or an artist. It comes with stylish animations and an overlay menu.
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- Price: Free
Smoochy – Tumblr Portfolio Theme
Smoochy is a portfolio theme you can use to make a resume-style website for your creative works. The header section of the theme allows you to introduce yourself and you can highlight your work with its grid-based post layout.
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- Price: Free
We Love Write – Tumblr Writer Theme
This theme is designed specifically for writers who appreciate minimalism. The theme features a classical one-column design that gives more focus to your written content.
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- Price: Free
Sugar
This is a rare Tumblr theme with a highly professional design. The theme uses the Variable Grid Layout to make it look great on all device screens. The theme also supports all 6 Tumblr post types as well.
- Price:Free
- Author: kazunori-miura
Interlace
Interlace is a bright, colourful theme with beautifully styled posts. Featuring bold images, big photos, and customisation options that put the layout and design in your hands.
- Price: $19
Author: Themelantic
Lookbook
Lookbook is a theme for the image curator and visual creator with a focus on beautiful, crisp images.
- Price: Free
- Author: Wantering
Prestige
For a free theme, Prestige features a high-quality design that makes it look just as good as a premium theme.
- Price:Free
- Author: Zen Themes
Transit
Transit is a thoughtfully designed theme to put your story front-and-centre, with beautiful designs for every post type, and the ability to customise everything.
- Price: $19
- Author: Themelantic
Hipster
A premium theme, now free. Hipster is a professionally built Tumblr theme for modern personal and portfolio blogs.
- Price:Free
- Author: precrafted
The Minimalist – Classy Tumblr Theme
The Minimalist is a slim and classy Tumblr theme that is pure. Basic black and white with thin lines makes this theme a minimalist’s dream.
- Price: Free
- Author: Pixel Union
Viewfinder
Viewfinder is a premium theme for photographers, with a slideshow header, big, beautiful images, and a powerful menu. Viewfinder makes it easy for you to choose up to four images that will rotate in your blog’s header.
- Price: $19
- Author: Themelantic
Quite Big – Photography Tumblr Theme
Quite Big is a Tumblr theme with an emphasis on BIG photos, photo-sets, and videos.
- Price: Free
- Author: George Dunkley
Brick
Brick is a basic theme for images and includes features such as infinite scrolling, social icons, and even comments by Disqus.
- Price: Free
- Author: thejenyuan-themes
Simon – Simple Tumblr Theme
Simon is a clean and flat Tumblr theme. It has so many customization options making this one of the simplest themes to use.
- Price: $30
- Author: mikedidthis
Mimesi – Creative Portfolio Theme for Tumblr
Mimesi is a beautiful Tumblr theme built for creatives. It is the perfect portfolio and has an epic, yet simple design all at once.
- Price: $30
- Author: themebull
Curate
Curate is a visual, image-focused theme, packed with useful sidebar widgets and beautiful pre-built colour schemes to showcase your inspiration.
- Price: $19
- Author: Themelantic
Editorist
Editorist is a theme specifically designed for writers and bloggers. The theme features a minimalist design that highlights its content along with the infinite scrolling effect.
- Price:Free
- Author: Theme Static
Notes – Clean & Responsive Tumblr Theme
Notes is a Tumblr theme with a cool texture design to it. Perfect for text posts and various musings.
- Price: $30
- Author: mikedidthis
Deluxe
Deluxe is a classy Tumblr theme with a cool layout for images and visual content.
- Price: Free
- Author: olleotathemes
Wedding – Pastel Tumblr Theme
Let’s face it. Most wedding websites aren’t that great. They’re dated, hard to update, and a bit uninspiring! This wedding theme showcases your names, and the wedding date, front and centre. You can also choose to add two information blocks (with things like venue information, your gift list, RSVP details, or anything else!).
- Price: $19
- Author: Themelantic
UltraZen
The best of the best minimal theme, scraping it down to the basics. Subtle animations and a beautiful design makes this a really amazing free theme.
- Price: Free
- Author: UltraLinx
Postcards – Retro Tumblr Theme
Postcards is a beautiful theme offering hand-crafted retro elements to a simple blog layout.
- Price: $19
- Author: Mimesis Themes
Cassadaga
Cassadaga is a free Tumblr theme offering beautiful customizations for logos, text, and general layout.
- Price: Free
- Author: mbacani
The New Yorker – Premium Tumblr Theme
The New Yorker is a beautiful theme with so many specificities. From texture to insanely unique layout, this is one of the coolest Tumblr themes out.
- Price: $29
- Author: Pixel Union
Cameo – Two Tone Minimalist Theme
Cameo is a beautiful, responsive theme featuring expert design and a clean minimal layout.
- Price: $10
- Author: runrunrobot
Longform – Text Focused Tumblr Theme
Longform is a fantastic theme that is built to showcase beautiful text posts and longform content.
- Price: $29
- Author: Pixel Union
Woodely
Woodely is a super customizable free Tumblr theme offering some cool textures and a fantastic image grid.
- Price: Free
- Author: paulborsan
Halcyon – The Prime Grid Theme for Tumblr
Halcyon is noted as the golden age of grid themes and comes with some beautiful design features making it very unique.
- Price: $29
- Author: Pixel Union
Magnify – Responsive Grid Based Theme
Magnify is a very minimal grid theme that is perfectly responsive.
- Price: $29
- Author: JenYuan
Ethanol
Ethanol is a unique Tumblr theme with a cool header and color palette.
- Price: Free
- Author: dr-slash
Plato – Colorful Tumblr Theme
Plato is a clean Tumblr theme featuring SEO optimization, HTML 5 semantics, and a whole slew of other unique details.
- Price: $9
- Author: vasilis
Typistry – Minimal, Pure Text Tumblr Theme
Typistry is the actual extent of minimal with some of the best typography for any Tumblr theme around.
- Price: $19
- Author: ColeTownsend
Pixelate
Pixelate is a pixel-perfect theme, to create a beautifully designed blog. Pixelate is filled with delightful design detail, background effects, and stylish social widgets.
- Price: $19
- Author: Themelantic
Masonite
Masonite is a clean and organized free Tumblr theme.
- Price: Free
- Author: hellodirty
Criss Cross
Criss Cross is a minimal grid theme that features infinite scroll.
- Price: Free
- Author: level82
Encore – Slim & Classy Tumblr Theme
Encore is a theme stripped down to the basics, keeping it slim and classy as ever.
- Price: $30
- Author: JenYuan
Premier – Responsive Tumblr Theme with Sticky Navigation
Premier is a theme featuring some beautiful colors, classic styles, and an awesome layout.
- Price: $30
- Author: JenYuan
Spin Madly On
Spin Madly On is a very simple, one column theme featuring some clean and organized design aspects.
- Price: Free
- Author: mbacani
Next – Sophisticated Tumblr Theme
Next is a clean and responsive theme with a darker theme to it.
- Price: $16
- Author: WoxThemes
Observer
Observer is a free Tumblr theme to focus on the images, text, and music.
- Price: Free
- Author: zsultan
Mason – Masonry Based Tumblr Theme
Mason is an organized and beautifully-laid out Tumblr theme.
- Price: $30
- Author: mikedidthis
Sisko – Versatile Tumblr Theme
Sisko is clean and versatile. It is the type of Tumblr theme that could double as a portfolio or a blog.
- Price: $30
- Author: GraphicMonkee
Royal Cameleon
Royal Cameleon is a beautiful and unique Tumblr theme with some rad textures.
- Price: Free
- Author: goroboto
Precise
Precise is a pixel-perfect grid theme, with minimal lines, subtle patterns, and powerful features. Precise comes with 13 different background patterns, to give your blog a subtle design — some light, and some dark. Choose from Squares, Tiny Squares, Wave, Floral, Concrete, Paper, Grid, Wood, Dark Vintage, Stardust, Tessellate, Grey Wash, and Grunge.
- Price: $19
- Author: Themelantic
Platro – Responsive Grid Tumblr Theme
Platro is a really unique responsive theme with a colorful grid of images.
- Price: $30
- Author: qwillar
