One of the knocks on Drupal has been it’s lack of high quality theme contributions. This was also an assumption on my part. I want to apologize for assuming that this is the case. Drupal actually has some fantastic free contributed themes. And although there may not be as many as it’s counterpart WordPress, you do have some fantastic options with Drupal.
Below I have compiled a list of the 24 most stunning free Drupal themes in the community to-date. These are the best of the best and you won’t find better ones anywhere. Not yet anyways. But with Drupal’s bright future not so distant, there is sure to be more added to this list in the coming months.
1. Ebizon Redfire
Compatible with Drupal 5 & 6
Ebizon RedFire is a strict xHTML validated, standards compliant CSS based drupal template with mission statement, breadcrumbs, custom footer. It is a fixed width with beautiful red, black on white background color theme.
2. Sky
Compatible with Drupal 6
This is a center aligned, CSS-based (no tables), multi-column layout theme, with some configurable color options, and support for many core configurations and some popular contributed modules.
3. Acquia Marina
Compatible with Drupal 6
Acquia Marina is an advanced theme developed by TopNotchThemes in partnership with Acquia for their commercially-supported Drupal distribution. It contains the same kinds of features you’ll find in our other Drupal themes.
demo | download
4. Marinelli
Compatible with Drupal 6
Marinelli is a 3 column, tableless layout theme with a wide image banner and a “top-tabbed” primary-links system.
5. Agregado
Compatible with Drupal 6
Agregado was originally designed by Darren Hoyt and Matt Dawson for WordPress and commissioned by the folks at Smashing Magazine. Ported to Drupal theme by Leow Kah Thong.
6. Color Paper
Compatible with Drupal 6
Color Paper was initially created by the DreamTemplate team for WordPress. This theme aims to combine visual appeal with clean typography and vivid design elements. It was created by them especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers. Which was later converted to a Drupal theme by Leow Kah Thong.
7. Acquia Slate
Compatible with Drupal 6
Acquia Slate is an advanced, dark, corporate Drupal theme developed by TopNotchThemes in partnership with Acquia for their commercially-supported Drupal distribution.
demo | download
8. Worthapost
Compatible with Drupal 6
Addari is another clean theme contributed to Drupal from Worthapost.com. This theme targets those who want cleanliness and web 2.0 mixture for their Drupal based website.
9. Analytic
Compatible with Drupal 6
Clean modern theme with fine tuned css, will be great for blogs, communities and online media.
10. Colourise
Compatible with Drupal 6
11. Dark Elegance
Compatible with Drupal 6
This theme mainly focuses on simplicity in usability, accessibility, typography & is built around a css-based (tableless) layout. The color palette uses simple flat dark colors which makes it a clean & fast loading theme.
12. Magazeen
Compatible with Drupal 6
This bold magazine 2-col-theme was designed with the main focus being on typography, grids and magazine-look. It was created especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.
13. Pixeled
Compatible with Drupal 6
14. Scruffy
Compatible with Drupal 6
Scruffy is a grungy, two-column blog theme originally designed for WordPress by Cobus Bester. The Drupal port preserves the same fundamental layout, with minor tweaks to work with non-node pages, Drupal status messages, and so on.
15. The Morning After
Compatible with Drupal 6
This is a port of the WordPress theme The Morning After to Drupal/ProsePoint, developed as a subtheme of Zen.
16. Mulpo
Compatible with Drupal 6
Mulpo is the new theme for mulpo.com. It is a simple clean theme with semantic markup, ideal for blogs. The mulpo theme manages to look very stylish with just one background image, all the rest is done with CSS. The current release of the mulpo theme has semantic clean markup, and is very very lightweight. Mulpo has only been tested in Firefox and Safari.
17. 960 Robots
Compatible with Drupal 6
960 Robots is a theme created by Lullabot for its Drupal theming videos and DVDs. This theme, based on the 960 grid system, features two columns on the right side of the page, a two-column footer, calandar-page dates for posts, and real-name usernames in posts (requires profile field with the machine name “profile_real_name”). The theme also uses Twitter’s search API to display a random message based on a configurable search string as the site’s slogan (PHP5 required).
18. Inove
Compatible with Drupal 6
19. Simply Modern
Compatible with Drupal 6
Simply Modern is a table-less, CSS driven design sporting an advanced feature set.
20. Summertime
Compatible with Drupal 6
Summertime is a beautiful theme with lots of small fancy things which will make your Drupal website look unique.
21. Compositio
Compatible with Drupal 6
Beautifully crafted blog theme from Design Disease. Designed to work with the Activity Stream and Tagadelic modules. 2 col only. Ported using the Genesis ULTRALITE starter subtheme.
22. 2 Tone
Compatible with Drupal 6
Simplistic two tone theme is perfect for any drupal website! It can be used as a theme for your personal blog or your own company website.
23. Arthemia
Compatible with Drupal 6
A port and modification of the Arthemia Free WordPress theme converted to Drupal The theme is of high quality, has 11 configurable regions and can be used in one and two column layouts.
24. Lite Jazz
Compatible with Drupal 5 & 6
LiteJazz is a GPL theme by RoopleTheme. It features 3 color styles, 12 fully collapsible regions, suckerfish menus, fluid or fixed widths, easy configuration, and more.
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