20 Clean and Light Personal Blogs

Given the ongoing popularity of grunge design, it can be easy to forget about all the well-designed clean blogs out there. I’ve compiled 20 clean and light blogs to inspire you to try something simpler today.

All of these blogs have a great attention to detail, and all doubtlessly involved a lot of thought on the part of the designer. However, the overall results are very clean and basic, meaning a comforting, usable web experience for all. I encourage you to check out all the blogs in this list and subscribe to your favorite feeds!

Also check out the bottom of this post for some great tutorials on creating your own clean blog design.

Feeling Inspired

If these great designs have inspired you to attempt your own clean blog design, then why not try the following tutorials:

Design a Clean Blog Theme in Photoshop

Making the ‘Clean Grunge’ Blog Design

Design a Creative, Clean Blog Theme in Photoshop

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10 Comments:

Dzinepress says:

July 23, 2009 at 3:52 am

really impressive stuff and i was finding some stuff like this for some design inspirations. thanks

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kkoepke.de says:

July 23, 2009 at 6:13 am

same here. especially the design of matthiasschuetz.com is really nice i think.

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Jasmin Halki? says:

July 23, 2009 at 12:15 pm

awesome designs

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Tom says:

July 23, 2009 at 1:16 pm

Thanks for commenting guys!

Kkoepke: Yeah I love how that design breaks from the traditional layout.

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DbRiders.com says:

July 23, 2009 at 1:25 pm

Great layouts, you cant beat a nie clean layout.

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Carson Shold says:

July 23, 2009 at 1:53 pm

Some great sites, I love the design. I just helped launch a blog called The Happiness Machine (http://www.thehappinessmachine.com), which is very minimalist, can’t wait until it starts making lists like this!

Cheers

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Adam says:

July 23, 2009 at 5:13 pm

Some beautifully simple and stylish sites there, good list. I’m especially liking the textured design on http://matthiasschuetz.com/.

I’d have a nice clean layout anyday over a cluttered design that’s tried too hard.

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Andrew says:

July 26, 2009 at 8:43 pm

SO my style….love it love it!!!

I should totally re-do my blog to make it looks like those clean and super nicely designed sites!

So far, it’s from a template!

http://www.blog.kaidesign.ca

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cebu Seo says:

December 6, 2010 at 11:22 pm

what an inspiring blog.. i like this one.. keep it up:)

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Priyank says:

December 24, 2010 at 11:10 am

I really appreciate your post and you explain each and every point very well.Thanks for sharing this information.And I’ll love to read your next post too.

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