Blog Design Styles

20 hybrid personal + technical blog designs — 4 pages each

Landing
Blog Listing
Contact
Blog Post
01
Clean Minimalist
Single centered column, generous whitespace, Newsreader serif, cream/terracotta palette. Timeless and content-first.
02
Magazine / Editorial Grid
Multi-column grid, Playfair Display + Source Sans, vermillion accent, volume/issue masthead, paper grain texture.
03
Card-Based / Masonry Grid
Staggered card grid, Fraunces + DM Sans, warm linen palette. Pure CSS masonry with hover lift and rotation.
04
Modern Dark Mode
Deep navy-black, Outfit + Crimson Pro, Dracula-themed code blocks. Working light/dark toggle persisted to localStorage.
05
Split-Personality / Dual-Zone
Two visual identities: dark tech zone (JetBrains Mono) vs. warm personal zone (Playfair). Nav morphs on scroll.
06
Swiss / International Typographic
Strict 12-column grid, DM Sans + DM Mono, Swiss red accent. Grid overlay toggle. Grayscale-to-color images.
07
Notion-Inspired / Document-Style
Sidebar page tree, Source Serif 4 + DM Sans, database table view, callout blocks, toggleable sections, TOC scroll tracking.
08
Editorial Long-Form / Storytelling
Crimson Pro + Cormorant Garamond, drop caps, pull quotes, marginalia, full-bleed images, reading progress bar.
09
Neo-Brutalist / Anti-Design
Syne + Space Mono, acid yellow/hot pink/electric blue, hard box shadows, ASCII art, crosshair cursor, scrolling marquee.
10
Adaptive Hub / Content-Type-Aware
DM Sans + Literata, dark charcoal with amber accent, color-coded content badges, frosted glass nav, sticky scroll spy TOC.
11
Scrollytelling Narrative
Playfair + Outfit, dark cinematic palette, scroll-triggered reveals, sticky code with line highlighting, chapter nav dots.
12
Bento Box / Modular Dashboard
Outfit + Source Serif 4, warm orange accent, variable-sized tiles (2x2, 2x1, 1x2, 1x1), macOS window chrome on code blocks.
13
Digital Garden / Evergreen Wiki
Cormorant Garamond + Alegreya, earthy palette, growth stages (seedling/budding/evergreen), backlinks, SVG connection map.
14
Analog Sketchbook / Field Notes
Caveat + Special Elite + Lora, paper textures, ruled lines, washi tape, taped Polaroids, elastic band, margin notes. All CSS.
15
Commonplace Book / Curated Mosaic
Playfair + Cormorant Garamond, aged paper tones, 6 distinct post formats in a stream, color-coded type badges.
16
Split-Persona / Two-Tone
Literal dark/light split: JetBrains Mono tech side vs. Libre Baskerville personal side, amber divider, blockquotes leak between modes.
17
Archival Index / Catalog
IBM Plex Mono dense index vs. Libre Baskerville rich articles, punch-hole decorations, working search/filter/sort, 47 entries.
18
Letterpress / Typographic Craftsman
Cormorant Garamond body, Tufte-style sidenotes, hanging punctuation, old-style numerals, drop caps, asterism section breaks.
19
Retro-Computing / CRT Terminal
VT323 phosphor green, CRT boot animation, scanlines, ls -la blog listing, mail command contact, image viewer windows.
20
Full-Screen Video / Cinematic
Bebas Neue headlines, deep blacks with amber accent, film grain overlay, Ken Burns hero, 21:9 theater mode, chapter markers.