Squarespace Templates: Your Planning Resource for Designing on Squarespace
The Squarespace web publishing platform provides so many beautiful templates, it's hard to pick just one for your upcoming web design project. Not to worry.
We've gathered every Squarespace 6 template here for you, complete with screenshots, key features, and links to view example sites to help you plan your next website design project.
Remember, Squarespace templates may start here, but where you take them is up to you. Any Squarespace template can be modified infinitely beyond its initial state, and if you know CSS, you can push your designs even further with your own design code using Squarespace's built-in CSS editor.
Pro Tip: Consider using Five if you're developing for Squarespace 6 and a blank developer template if you're designing for Squarespace v5.
Adirondack
Adirondack is a minimalist Squarespace template built for small businesses and entrepreneurs. Strong photo headers combined with a drop-down contact menus and fade-away global headers create a bold, yet crisp website perfect for lead generation, an online storefront, or just getting the word out about your brand.
Amelie
Amelie is a Tumblog style theme with flexible logo, navigation, sidebar and header options. Four preset styles can be found in a drop-down menu at the top of the Style Editor. Addition features of this Squarespace template include promoted blocks in blog posts, sidebar, title, and navigation positions, and social links in your navigation.
Atelier
Atelier is a simple template that holds galleries, blogs, and other pages easily. Additional template options include page alignment options, robust gallery display options, and blog alignment options.
Avenue
Avenue is a portfolio template suited for displaying many projects at once, all in a clean and organized grid. Additional features include header alignment options, image captioning options, and many page and gallery layout and configuration options.
Aviator
Aviator is a bold Squarespace template perfect for restaurants, fashion blogs, and other portfolio websites. Aviator boasts unique template-based image options that result in highly visual website. This template lacks sidebar options, but provides great visibility for your homepage and social links.
Beatrice
Beatrice is a simple, yet sophisticated template with a balanced layout, suitable for small businesses and blogs. This Squarespace template can be can be modified with page-specific banners, custom width and sidebar settings, and is mobile optimized along with all other Squarespace templates.
Boutique
Boutique is an elegant and clean Squarespace blog template with an abundance of white space to feature large images. Additional options include different page borders, promoted images, and secondary options like social media and search options in your secondary navigation.
Bricktop
Bricktop is a minimalist and straightforward blog, suited for sharing short posts. Additional features include unique navigation positioning options, fixed or scrolling sidebars, and additional content blocks.
Devlin
Devlin is a versatile Squarespace template that can facilitate just about any type of website. Multiple sidebar configurations per page in conjunction with sitewide or page-specific banner images make this template worth looking at for your next Squarespace project.
Dovetail
Dovetail is a business template perfect for creating nested categories and sub-folders. The Dovetail Squarespace template allows you to set page-specific banner images, variable header alignment, and automatic social links. Used in conjunction with the Amazon product link widget, and you've got yourself a nice little system for just about any affiliate marketing business.
Faye
Faye is a tumblog template with unique navigation and post styling. Four preset styles can be found in a drop-down menu at the top of the Style Editor. Additional features include options to toggle text or icon-based navigation, automatic social media icons, and promoted blog post blocks.
Five
Five is a flexible, jack-of-all trades of a Squarespace template. You can choose from over six sidebar configurations with no sidebar, one sidebar, or two sidebars. Various navigation and social media links options also exist for this template. Five also supports multiple options for banners and backgrounds of your website.
Flatiron
Flatiron is a portfolio template with a very unique layout. It's equally adept at showcasing design or photography projects. Its Index page accommodates multiple galleries, each with as many images as you want. Additional features include dynamic layout options, a special index page, and a lot of other gallery goodies.
Frontrow
Frontrow is a full-screen portfolio template that allows images to be showcased at the maximum size. Additional features of this Squarespace template include gorgeous full-page template layouts, header navigation alignment options, and blog sidebar/alignment options.
Hudson
Hudson is a child template of Montauk, but presented in a very different starting point. The beautiful blog template provides open sidebar options, and the portfolio options are robust. Hudson is a clean and airy template.
Ishimoto
Ishimoto is a full-width horizontal scrolling portfolio template, suited for showcasing collections of work. Additional options for this template include header alignment and navigation options, blog sidebar alignment options, and automatic gallery vertical scaling.
Jensen
Jensen is a sophisticated “masonry-style” portfolio template. The project detail view rm-slides in from the right when opened. Its Index page accommodates multiple galleries, each with as many images as you want. Additional options include a dynamic layout, index pages complete with options, and unique social icon options.
Jirick
Jirick is the ideal template for showcasing project-based collections. Its index page accommodates multiple galleries at once, and each gallery can hold several images. Additional options include several style presets, automatic background color detection based on photos you use, and many other gallery image and formatting options.
Marquee
The Marquee Squarespace template is the platform's first parallaxing template, which means images move and change at different speeds as you're scrolling down a page. Squarespace says this template promotes a "presentation-style layout," which allows you to tell a vivid story with your brand.
Metro
Metro is a blog template designed especially for long-form writing, with an emphasis on typographic detail. Extra features include formatting of the navigation, page width formatting options, and the ability to increase the size of your first paragraph in blog posts.
Minsk
Minsk is a flexible grid-based portfolio template. You can customize a number of grid related properties, such as thumbnail width, vertical and horizontal spacing, align thumbnails with each other or switch to square thumbnails. Minsk also supports background color detection for project images. Additional options include color detection, and a ton of spacing options.
Momentum
This Squarespace template is well-suited for photographers and designers with its full-width photo layouts and sophisticated gallery integrations. For example, this template comes with a special tooltip that dynamically pulls in your photo's title and description when people click on it. Other features, such as the gallery grid view and the ability to set images as backgrounds for individual pages make this template great for photo blogs and portfolio sites.
Montauk
Montauk is a beautiful business/blogging Squarespace template with plenty of white space to be had by anyone who uses it. With dynamic canvas, portfolio, and blog options, this versatile template will no doubt be a favorite among the business crowd.
Native
Native is a clean Squarespace template with roomy spacing designed to showcase media rich blog posts. It will format itself based on how you work and what you post. Additional features include promoted blog post blocks, thumbnail images, and custom width settings.
Particle
Particle is a roomy template with uniquely styled excerpts with thumbnail images designed to showcase media rich blog posts. It will format itself based on how you work and what you post. Additional features include a fixed or variable positioned footer, blog post with thumbnail image and excerpt, and several style presets.
Peak
Peak is a flexible Squarespace template suited for personal and business websites. Peak can be configured to display a sidebar on any page, page-specific banners can be assigned, and it's optimized for smaller screens. Check out Peak if you're building a small business website.
Qubert
Qubert is a fun “masonry-style” template that is ideal for showcasing a lot of projects in a relatively compact space. Its Index page accommodates multiple galleries, each with as many images as you want. Additional features include dynamic layout options, social media icons, and index formatting and layout options.
Takk
Takk is a blog with unobtrusive styling and lots of white space, best for large images and illustrations Three preset styles can be found in a drop-down menu at the top of the Style Editor. Additional features include special handling for logos and social media icons, header alignment options, and sidebar options.
Wells
Wells is a simple portfolio template that features multiple galleries, with large images in each. Additional options for this Squarespace template include sidebar positioning options, different gallery styles, and multiple navigation sections.
Wexley
Wexley is a flexible portfolio template suited for showcasing collections of images. Additional features of this Squarespace template include different page alignment options, navigation options, and different gallery style and blogging options.
These templates were gathered courtesy of +Josh Braaten.
