February was dominated by minimal WordPress themes. Virtually all the themes released during this month, barring a few noteworthy exceptions, had a clean and minimal content-centric layout.
In this roundup, I have listed some of the top free WordPress themes released during the month of February 2014.
1. Crates
Crates is a responsive WordPress theme for tumbloggers. It features a grid-based layout and supports multiple post formats.
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2. Zweig
Zweig is a minimal WordPress theme with a focus on typography. It is responsive and sports a single-column clean design with a one-level menu header.
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3. PepMagazine
As the name suggests, PepMagazine is a WordPress theme meant for news and magazine websites.
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4. Pantheon
Pantheon is a simple minimal theme ideally meant for personal blogs. It is fully responsive and offers a clutterless design.
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5. Hephaestus
Hephaestus is a light-weight theme for news and magazine websites. It features a two-column layout with a homepage slider.
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6. Leather Diary
Leather Diary is a responsive WordPress theme meant for blog and magazine websites. It comes with several pre-defined color schemes, custom shortcodes, and is localization ready (also includes translations in Czech, French, Spanish, Slovak and German).
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7. Aquarius
Aquarius is a minimal WordPress theme that caters to personal blogs. It has a Georgia-based typography and is fully responsive.
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8. Hex
Hex is a responsive theme meant for personal blogs and tumblogs. It has a colorful layout and supports post formats.
PS: No clue what’s with the name. WordPress.com lists it as ‘Hexa’, whereas WordPress.org uses ‘Hex’.
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9. Smpl Skeleton
Smpl Skeleton is a responsive WordPress theme that supports custom shortcodes, multiple color schemes as well as custom page layouts.
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10. Matheson
Matheson is a clean and responsive WordPress theme. It supports multiple post formats and is based on Twitter Bootstrap.
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11. Corpocrat
Corpocrat is a WordPress theme meant for personal blogs. It comes with five color schemes and an optional full width layout.
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12. Hemingway
Hemingway is a clean and responsive two-column WordPress theme. It is translation ready, sports an enormous header image, and comes with custom widgets for videos, Dribbble and Flickr.
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13. Wilson
Wilson is a responsive WordPress theme meant for tumblogs. Much like Hemingway, Wilson is also translation ready and comes with custom widgets for videos, Dribbble and Flickr.
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14. Almasi
Almasi (literally, ‘the diamond’) comes with multiple menu locations, custom widgets and a homepage slider. It is translation ready.
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15. Base WP
Base WP is an extremely minimal WordPress theme with a corporate layout. It is responsive and translation ready, and supports post formats.
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Sufyan bin Uzayr is a freelance writer and Linux enthusiast. He writes for several print magazines as well as technology blogs, and has also authored a book named Sufism: A Brief History. His primary areas of interest include open source, mobile development and web CMS. He is also the Editor of an e-journal named Brave New World. You can visit his website, follow him on Twitter or friend him on Facebook and Google+.