Shopify Announces New Dawn Free Theme

Dawn is Shopify’s new free theme. It offers Shopify's latest features and functionality, including sections on most templates, blocks, and metafields. While the themes mentioned in this article are still supported, they don’t include these features or functionality. To learn more about Dawn visit Shopify's latest blog.

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Shopify’s mission is to make commerce better for everyone, and to date, they've helped over 1 million independent businesses turn what they’re into, into a business. Part of fulfilling that promise means ensuring that their platform has beautiful, mobile-friendly themes available so you can build and customize your online store to your liking.

Thanks to Shopify’s team of designers and developers, along with many talented Shopify Partners, there is a wide selection of Shopify themes available to fit any budget and any industry. Below, we’ll first list the free Shopify themes you can use if you’re a cash-strapped upstart looking to get started, followed by a few premium Shopify themes available from our Partners.

All premium themes are organized by industry—including fashion and apparel, jewelry and accessories, home, electronics, toys and games, and more—so you can find the perfect fit for your selection of products.

Free Shopify themes to start your online store

When you’re starting a new business, money may be a bit tight until you make your few first sales. But that doesn’t mean you can’t make one of the best ecommerce websites with a fast, high-converting Shopify theme. Below are the eight free Shopify themes developed in-house by our expert team. Each offers industry-leading performance and deep levels of customization, all for the right price: free!

1. Narrative

Price: Free

Theme styles: Warm, Light, Cold

Theme demo: Desktop 💻, Mobile 📱

Featuring a bold hero video (or slideshow), Narrative is perfect for visual storytelling and serves as the perfect complement for a single product business, or a store with a small catalog of items.

Get your Restaurant Online with the Express Theme

Express is a free theme designed with food and beverage businesses in mind. Fulfill orders online while keeping control of your customers, profits and brand equity.

Preview the Express Theme

2. Simple

Price: Free

Theme styles: Light, Beauty, Toy

Theme demo: Desktop 💻, Mobile 📱

Simple lets your products do the talking. Featuring built-in product recommendations and image zoom for every product, Simple’s takes a backseat so customers can appreciate the finer details of your catalog.

3. Minimal

Price: Free

Theme styles: Vintage, Fashion, Modern

Theme demo: Desktop 💻, Mobile 📱

Neatly organize your products with this clean, simple design that also features an optional section for a home page video or slideshow, along with built-in product filtering so customers can find what they’re looking for.

4. Debut

Price: Free

Theme styles: Default, Light

Theme demo: Desktop 💻, Mobile 📱

Debut your brand with the ideal Shopify theme for a carefully curated selection of products. Don’t let the simple design fool you, as there’s a ton of power under the hood, including built-in customer testimonials, predictive search, and an optional promotional banner.

5. Supply

Price: Free

Theme styles: Blue, Light

Theme demo: Desktop 💻, Mobile 📱

Have a lot of products to sell? Supply can help you smartly organize your products by collections and encourage customers to purchase more. With featured collections available on your homepage along with collection filtering in the sidebar, the products your customers are searching for will only be a click or two away.

Bring your Business Online with the Express Theme

Express is a free theme designed for businesses with small to medium product catalogues that are looking to get online quickly and meet their customers where they're purchasing from today.

Preview the Express Theme

6. Brooklyn

Price: Free

Theme styles: Classic, Playful

Theme demo: Desktop 💻, Mobile 📱

Modern apparel businesses should find the perfect fit with Brooklyn. With turn-key features like a slide-out cart, so customers can easily add items without having to leave the page, Brooklyn will ensure your store looks as good as your clothes⁠—and converts, too.

7. Venture

Price: Free

Theme styles: Snowboards, Outdoor, Boxing

Theme demo: Desktop 💻, Mobile 📱

Another one of our free Shopify themes that’s tailor-made for large product catalogs. Venture includes a multi-column menu so you can showcase granular details in a drop-down menu. You’ll also be able to highlight a single flagship product should you so choose.

8. Boundless

Price: Free

Theme styles: Black & White, Vibrant

Theme demo: Desktop 💻, Mobile 📱

Put your product photography in full focus with Boundless, a theme that lets your photos speak a thousand words. Showcase high-resolution product imagery with a dedicated product gallery or through a full-width grid layout for your collection images.

Shopify themes for fashion and apparel businesses

Fashion and apparel businesses are consistently some of the most popular on Shopify. When choosing the best Shopify theme for this vertical, look for an eye-catching design that includes enough functionality to let your customers see the finer details of your products. Photography, especially lifestyle photography, tends to run the show for fashion and apparel.

Learn more: How to Start a Clothing Line

9. Streamline

Price: $180

Theme styles: Core, Luxe, Hype

Theme developer: Archetype Themes

Theme demo: Desktop 💻, Mobile 📱

Style and substance: Streamline features a handy sticky checkout, so customers’ carts are always in reach. You’ll also find built-in advanced product filtering, so customers can sort by brand, type, color, or size on the collection page.

10. Context

Price: $180

Theme styles: Chic, Modern, Essential

Theme developer: Fluorescent Design Inc.

Theme demo: Desktop 💻, Mobile 📱

If you’re not a single product business but don’t sell a massive catalog of products, Context may offer the perfect sweet spot. Context includes a nice balance of features, including advanced product filtering and search for discovery, but also bold, story-focused product pages so you can highlight flagship items.

11. Handy

Price: $180

Theme styles: Light, Cool, Fresh

Theme developer: Pixel Union

Theme demo: Desktop 💻, Mobile 📱

Handy’s mobile-first design was built from the ground up for smaller devices and mobile commerce. Featuring custom promotion tiles and continuous product scroll functionality, customers will find it easy to browse and buy your products on mobile.

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12. Venue

Price: $180

Theme styles: Morning, Evening, Weekend

Theme developer: Safe As Milk

Theme demo: Desktop 💻, Mobile 📱

Venue is a great choice for businesses who sell online and in-person, with a dates and events section that’s perfect for getting customers to visit your brick and mortar location. There are also unique features like a built-in age-checker popup for businesses selling age-restricted products.

13. Galleria

Price: $180

Theme styles: Empire, Boutique, Showroom

Theme developer: Mile High Themes

Theme demo: Desktop 💻, Mobile 📱

Is your store selling an entire wardrobe? Galleria blends the perfect mix of features to encourage discoverability and fine-tooth inspection, with collection filtering in the sidebar along with quick views for individual products and bold, image-focused product pages.

Shopify themes for jewelry and accessory businesses

14. Modular

Price: $160

Theme styles: Chelsea, Mayfair, Hoxton

Theme developer: Presidio Creative

Theme demo: Desktop 💻, Mobile 📱

Modular’s grid-focused design is built with branding and conversion in mind. The product grid lets you showcase collections, products, or brand imager, while the quick buy feature and built-in testimonials can help drive more sales.

15. District

Price: $160

Theme styles: District, Energy, Coast

Theme developer: Style Hatch

Theme demo: Desktop 💻, Mobile 📱

Have a featured product or collection you’d like to highlight? District can help you put the limelight on a recent release or flagship product with a prominent home page video or slideshow. You can also catch customers’ attention with a built-in banner or pop-up modal.

16. Kagami

Price: $180

Theme styles: Kyoto, Baptiste, Geneve

Theme developer: Maestrooo

Theme demo: Desktop 💻, Mobile 📱

Mix and max lifestyle photography with more detailed product photos with Kagami’s dynamic grid layout. And with two distinct menu styles, featured homepage product videos, and built-in product recommendations, you’re sure to find a design that fits your style.

17. Prestige

Price: $180

Theme styles: Allure, Couture, Vogue

Theme developer: Maestrooo

Theme demo: Desktop 💻, Mobile 📱

Built for sellers of premium products, this Shopify theme supports high-resolution product imagery that’s perfect for visual storytelling. You'll also find image hotspot linking so you can share the finer details of your products, along with a built-in timeline tool to tell your brand's story.

18. Impulse

Price: $180

Theme styles: Modern, Vintage, Bold

Theme developer: Archetype Themes

Theme demo: Desktop 💻, Mobile 📱

Put the right offer and product in front of your customers with Impulse, which features custom promotion tiles, collection sidebar filters, sub-listings in collections, and the ability to create custom promotional content on collection pages.

Shopify themes for houseware and home/garden businesses

When you sell products that fit your customers' personal spaces, your job is to help them envision life after their purchase. A sunroom might get the perfect accessory, and a garden may find a theme the customer enjoys—in most cases, your product will become a way the customer shapes the space they live in.

19. Cascade

Price: $180

Theme styles: Classic, Bright, Modern

Theme developer: Switch

Theme demo: Desktop 💻, Mobile 📱

Let your customers envision your products in their space with Cascade's unique narrative-focused design. You'll also find a masonry-style grid and built-in product feature highlights, so your products are easy to find and understand.

20. Artisan

Price: $180

Theme styles: Barcelona, Phoenix, Victoria

Theme developer: Out of the Sandbox

Theme demo: Desktop 💻, Mobile 📱

Does your business blend products and complementary services? Artisan lets you create a tailored contact form that should perfectly suit your business needs. This Shopify theme also includes elegantly designed tables so you can feature products, services, or both side-by-side.

21. Story

Price: $180

Theme styles: Chronicle, Quest, Heritage

Theme developer: Groupthought

Theme demo: Desktop 💻, Mobile 📱

Every business has a story that makes its presence in the space unique. Story is, unsurprisingly, built to help you tell it. There's the familiar timeline tool, story-focused product pages, and even a team showcase so customers know your "why" before they buy.

22. Responsive

Price: $180

Theme styles: London, Paris, New York, San Francisco

Theme developer: Out of the Sandbox

Theme demo: Desktop 💻, Mobile 📱

For certain home and houseware products, customers have to imagine it alongside other aesthetic choices they've made. Responsive plays nicely with this need, by having color swatches available by default, along with full-width photography and FAQ pages to let customers see all of the details, anyway they'd like to.

23. Mr. Parker

Price: $160

Theme styles: Wardrobe, Sunset, Apothecary, Desk

Theme developer: We Are Underground

Theme demo: Desktop 💻, Mobile 📱

Looking for the ideal sweet spot for a medium-sized catalog? Mr. Parker may be the best Shopify theme for you. With native product filtering and a sidebar to curate collection pages, customers looking to outfit their whole space will be sure to find what they need.

Shopify themes for health and beauty businesses

When you're looking for a best-fit Shopify theme for your health, beauty, or fitness business, remember that you're often selling the outcome rather than the product itself. Customers often want to visualize either how the product will make them look, or how they'll use it to improve their appearance, energy levels, etc. Look for Shopify themes that let your design showcase a nice interplay between the products you sell, and the people who use them.

Learn more: How to Sell Makeup Online

24. Blockshop

Price: $160

Theme styles: Beauty, Moto, Summer, Deli

Theme developer: Troop Themes

Theme demo: Desktop 💻, Mobile 📱

Blockshop's front-and-center header slideshow (with optional video) lets you put one of your key products, or categories, front and center. The grid layout, meanwhile, makes it easy for customers to discover new arrivals, sales, and other popular collections.

25. Testament

Price: $140

Theme styles: Genesis Exodus Revelation Deliverance

Theme developer: We Are Underground

Theme demo: Desktop 💻, Mobile 📱

Sell premium beauty products with Testament's lustrous design and colorways. With the product quick view—so customers won't have to leave their current page when viewing product details—and the available sticky navigation, you'll be able to blend stylish chic with high conversions.

26. Envy

Price: $180

Theme styles: Copenhagen, Oslo, Gothenburg, Stockholm

Theme developer: WeTheme

Theme demo: Desktop 💻, Mobile 📱

Envy's clean aesthetic has the perfect layout for differentiating flagship products (or products on sale) from your other collections. And, you can capture emails with the built-in marketing popup or point your customers in the right direction with a banner.

27. Vantage

Price: $160

Theme styles: Clean, Mono, Reclaimed, Black

Theme developer: We Are Underground

Theme demo: Desktop 💻, Mobile 📱

With Vantage's bold style, you're sure to turn heads—but you'll also turn visitors into customers. Since finding the right colorway is often crucial for beauty products, Vantage lets you display color swatches on all of your product pages.

28. Atlantic

Price: $180

Theme styles: Organic, Light, Modern, Chic

Theme developer: Pixel Union

Theme demo: Desktop 💻, Mobile 📱

Does your business exist to fill customer's vanity tables? Atlantic is a great Shopify theme for beauty business with large catalogs that need a clean, accessible way to surface products and let customers effortlessly add items to their cart.

Shopify themes for art and photography businesses

No surprise, art and photography stores require a Shopify theme that lets them put each work on display, while still lets customers find the right print, style, or aesthetic for them. The right balance between uncompromising photography quality and careful curation can be tricky, but these Shopify themes will help you find the sweet spot.

Learn more: How to Sell Photos Online

29. Editorial

Price: $160

Theme styles: Agency, Armour, Adventure

Theme developer: Switch

Theme demo: Desktop 💻, Mobile 📱

Perfect for print! While Editorial features a number of great features to power your written content, such as its ability to support multiple blogs, it's also an ideal match for high-resolution photography. Best of all, it includes image zoom functionality for all products so customers can see every detail.

30. California

Price: $180

Theme styles: California, Cartomaps, Sundays, Kentia

Theme developer: Small Victories

Theme demo: Desktop 💻, Mobile 📱

A Shopify theme for the prolific artists (or just the organized ones). California sports a lean, simple design with advanced product filtering and a home page collection grid, so you can feature products from multiple collections for easy browsing.

31. Icon

Price: $160

Theme styles: Dolce, Christian, Yves, Vera

Theme developer: We Are Underground

Theme demo: Desktop 💻, Mobile 📱

Your prints, designs, or paintings leave an impression; your online store should, too. With a design that accommodates large photographs and images, native slideshow functionality, and a quick view for product details, Icon may offer the perfect design to house your designs.

32. Symmetry

Price: $180

Theme styles: Beatnik, Salt Yard, Chantilly, Duke

Theme developer: Clean Canvas

Theme demo: Desktop 💻, Mobile 📱

For larger catalogs, Symmetry features a bevy of tools to help you find the right layout and design. With reorderable home page rows, multi-column and multi-level menus, and a long-form design available on the homepage, your store will be able to help customers find the piece that speaks to them.

33. Label

Price: $160

Theme styles: Record, Publish, Create

Theme developer: Switch

Theme demo: Desktop 💻, Mobile 📱

Prefer to use your unique aesthetic for a small, hand-picked sample of products? The Label theme for Shopify is built for the contemporary designer and seller with a small catalog. The full-width imagery and front-and-center layout will make your flagship product impossible to miss.

Doesn't matter which business you're interested in setting up, Shopify has a theme for you. Honey Whale Lab are Shopify Partners and can assist you in any type of store development, we have created 100's of stores that have been a success. Contact us for any assistance with regards to your Shopify Store build or revamp projects.

SOURCE: Mark Hayes - Shopify Blogs - Shopify South Africa

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