20 Great Textural WordPress Themes
All too often, web designs can seem a bit sterile and clinical, but a bit of texture can go a long way towards alleviating this problem. You aren’t cold; your blog needn’t be either.
Artistic
Mixing crop circles and letterpress styling give Artistic a warm but comfortable look.
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Aspire
A more formal looking theme with a somewhat steampunk feel.
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Bolshevik
Publish your own web-based Samizdat with a low tech Soviet feel.
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Cellar Heat
Give your blog a look that says “this was found in the basement under the hot water heater.” Also available in a dark version.
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Color Paper
Cross Post-it notes and and old fence to get a nice feeling of warm decay.
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CreativeArt
At last, a theme that says “I am can do amazing things, but don’t always feel the need to.”
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Creative by Nature
A grungier more nature-inspired cousin of Color Paper.
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Grunge Style
Did I say Aspire felt steampunky? Here’s a different take on that genre.
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Imagination
Imagination is a whole family of themes, coming with several very different looks.
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Intaglio
More romantic and less grimy than some of the other themes here, but still having a nice warmth.
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Irresistible
A less conventional layout but it still manages to make blue seem warm.
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Japan Style
Perhaps not for every blog, but it gives a homey spin on a Japanese motif.
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MysticGrunge
Over the top grungy, like a Lovecraftian inkblot imprinted in mud.
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Notebook
Another interesting juxtaposition of elegant patterns with torn paper and smudges.
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OldBlack
Old wood, paper textures, and even ink stains.
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Photographic Film
Does anyone else remember when scrap books were actually tossed together from scraps without prefabbed cutesy elements? So does this theme.
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Rustic Portrait
While not perfect, the punched out image and the antique looking RSS icons helped this one make the list.
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Scruffy
This may be my favorite theme on this list. It just seems real and unaffected. No doubt it took a lot of effort to create that impression, of course.
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SpaceGloss
Somehow this one is both textured and glossy at the same time. Reminds me of light coming through an old window.
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Watercolor
The warmest and prettiest theme on the list.
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