Sometimes it’s just amazing to see, how developers use creative approaches to design amazing layouts, based upon a simple Wordpress template. Every now and again we take a look around, and select Wordpress themes, which offer thought-out design, flexible template structure and conform to the basic principles of usability. The choice is big enough, but the search is worth it. We invest our time, browsing through dozens of web-sites, news aggregators and design-communities and put enhanced solutions together, so you don’t have to.

Let’s take a look at 21 23 fresh, usable, simple and and elegant WordPress themes, which have been released over the last few months. Among other things, we’ve also selected some of the new minimalistic solutions – all of them make use of clear and precise typography. They’re definitely worth a look.

You can also take a look at

• 83 Beautiful Wordpress Themes You Probably Haven’t Seen,
• 8 Fresh And Clean Wordpress Themes and
• 10 Fresh, Elegant and Clean Wordpress Themes.

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Elegant Wordpress Themes

1. Copyblogger Theme

2. Dark_Black

3. HemingwayEx

4. Deep Blue

5. i3Theme brothers, Left and Right!

6. Bus Full of Hippies

6.1. (Bonus, updated) Illacrimo

7. PinkLove

8. Swiss Cool Wordpress Theme

9. School’s in Session

10. Xenoria

11. Autumn Concept 1.0

12. Blue Idea

Simple and Clean Wordpress Themes

13. Upstart Blogger Modicus

14. Upstart Blogger Modio

15. Alexified

16. Cutline Theme for WordPress

17. Photopress

18. aslampHC 1.0 / Osmium 1.0

19. Experimental

20. Simplicity

21. Deliciously Blue

Bonus (Updated)

22. Sharpfolio

23. Coldblue

Further References and Collections

• Best of Wordpress theme galore — BlogoSquare
• A collection of collected Wordpress themes at Witty Sparks
• Part3 Top Best Beautiful Wordpress Themes and Templates
• SEO Wordpress Template Pack #1
• 18 Adsense Optimized Wordpress Themes to Maximize your Contextual Ad Earnings
• WordPress Themes, Web 2.0 Themes
• 100 Favourite Wordpress Themes
• Free Wordpress Themes and More at Fresheezy!
• Weblog Tools Collection

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