Dazzling Squarespace Websites for Blogs and Publications
Soak in the editorial vibe before building your website
Content-rich websites that have many blog posts and entries are a different tribe. They look and feel different in their style and structure from the regular business websites. In this blog post, we gathered 17 examples of websites for blogs and magazines built with Squarespace for you to check out before heading into your web design journey.
By the way, we recently launched a new Squarespace template for blogs Modernist, so you might want to take a look at it while you are at it.
Squarespace Website for a PR Firm
Extention is a PR consultancy that has a sophisticated and editorial website on Squarespace. The site has a sleek, magazine-style layout, that reminds its visitors of high-end editorial websites. It is also minimal – clean lines and generous white space are complemented by a soft, off-white background, giving the site a refined but approachable feel.
They have an extensive blog to showcase the coverage they get for their clients. The Recent Coverage page serves as their primary content hub, highlighting media placements across various industries. This section is organized into categories like Tech, Auto, and Consumer, featuring articles from reputable outlets such as The Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg TV.
Squarespace Website for a Magazine
Contemporary Collage Magazine is a quarterly publication featuring interviews and articles on the world’s most creative collage artists. On their Squarespace website, they use a neutral palette with accent colors – the base is mostly white and black with subtle pastel tones and splashes of bolder colors in images and headers. The visual emphasis is put on magazine covers, collages, and artwork with large, well-positioned images.
They also have two blogs on their website to publish ideas and news more often than once every three months if they need to. The blogs have a two-column masonry-style layout where articles are neatly grouped by type (interviews, challenges, themes, etc.)
Squarespace Website for a Fashion Magazine
JON Magazine’s website delivers a fashion-centric, visually immersive experience. It is a website for a print magazine that showcases photography, style, and branded storytelling. The design is dominated by black and white and conveys a sleek, modern aesthetic. Generous whitespace enhances legibility and gives a luxurious, high-end feel.
Squarespace Website for Culture Magazine
METAL is an independent publishing project from Barcelona that is about fashion, photograpy and art. It is published twice a year but also offers an exclusive online content.
Bold and editorial, the design of the website is fit for a high-end fashion magazine. The layout is grid-based – the homepage for example uses a tight masonry-style grid to showcase magazine covers. It’s a great example of how Squarespace can be adapted for fashion-forward digital publications that need both a storefront and a curated blog.
Squarespace Website for Art Magazine
The website Create! Magazine showcases a vibrant and community-driven design, reflecting its mission to support and inspire artists. The site has a soft, pastel color scheme with warm neutrals and pink accents, creating an inviting atmosphere. The neutral background gives an opportunity to have more colors on the images of artwork and magazine covers. The blog is neatly organized in the three-column greed and categorized to make the search quick and efficient.
Squarespace Website for Cinema Magazine
Cineaste is a quarterly magazine (founded in 1967) that offers a social, political, and esthetic perspective on the cinema. Their Squarespace website is minimalist and content-first – it avoids visual clutter, allowing the written content to take center stage. There's very little imagery aside from film stills and thumbnails, which helps maintain an academic tone. The website has a clean, classic black-and-white color scheme reinforcing its professional and print-like feel.
Squarespace Website for Art Magazine
The website Photo Trouvée Magazine serves as an art platform focusing on vintage found photographs and nostalgia. It showcases artists from around the world who work with or are inspired by found or family photos. The site employs a clean, neutral color palette, allowing the featured artwork to stand out. High-quality images of magazine covers and artworks are prominently displayed, emphasizing the visual nature of the content. Shop Section offers both print and digital formats of the magazine, including the latest issue and back issues.
Squarespace Website for a Culture Magazine
The website Sandwich Magazine has a visually engaging design that reflects its unique editorial focus on exploring culture through the lens of sandwiches. Bright and playful, dominated by sunny yellow, ketchup red, and creamy beige tones that resemble sandwich ingredients — the color palette feels fun, bold, and unmistakably on-brand. Bold, chunky headline fonts are paired with clean, legible body text. The typography evokes a retro diner menu feel while staying contemporary. Visuals are central and full of character, often humorous and intentionally exaggerated.
Squarespace Website for a Coffee Magazine
Roast is a technical trade magazine dedicated to the success and growth of the specialty coffee industry. Roast addresses the art, science, and business of coffee by covering the issues most important to the industry.
The neutral and earthy color palette, with white and grey backgrounds that let photography and text take center stage. Occasional pops of color come through featured images. High-resolution photography related to coffee culture and production adds visual warmth and authenticity.
Roast Magazine’s website is a great example of a niche, editorially driven design that prioritizes thoughtful content over flashy effects. It’s professional, easy to navigate, and speaks directly to its target audience in the specialty coffee industry.
Squarespace Website for DIY Blog
The Sorry Girls' website is a successful platform for DIY enthusiasts. It has many DIY-inspired elements like tape graphics, paint strokes, and handwritten fonts, evoking a hands-on, crafty feel that aligns with their DIY focus. The Sorry Girls’ blog is visually polished, on-brand, and approachable – a great fit for their audience. It does a strong job of showcasing DIY ideas in a digestible format.
Squarespace Website for a Culinary Blog
The babi.sh website serves as the central hub for the Babish Culinary Universe, the brainchild of Andrew Rea, also known as Babish. It brings together all of his culinary content, including his YouTube channel, recipes, livestreams, and merchandise. The site employs a minimalist design with ample white space, allowing content to stand out without distractions. The hero sections of the key pages look impressive with photo and video backgrounds.
Squarespace Website for a Fashion Blogger
All The Pretty Pandas is a Squarespace website that belongs to a former contestant on The Bachelor, a professional opera singer. She also has a where she offers candid commentary on reality TV, lifestyle, fashion, and personal topics. The site blends modern design with a warm, personal touch. She uses hero images and portrait-style shots at the top of pages with white strokes around herself. The website and the blog have an organized and intuitive layout – grid-based categories combined with breadcrumb navigation make exploration easy.
Squarespace Website for a Food Blog
A Fork & A Pencil is a Melbourne-based food blog built with Squarespace. The site features a simple and inviting look with plenty of white space paired with large, colorful food photography. Vibrant high-resolution images on the minimalist background showcase recipes and allow them to shine.
To make the website more interactive, designers added a sticky top menu that is likely to stay visible and a hover effect that makes images to darken slightly.
Squarespace Blog for a Designer and Photographer
Meiwen See's website is an elegant showcase of her work as a designer and photographer. The website opens up with a short, one-sentence bio that introduces the creator. The homepage uses irregular greed with images placed seemingly random, while portfolio and blog pages use regular masonry grids. The journal features a feed of thoughtful, curated content like design interviews and travel imagery. Each post opens with a large featured image and a clean layout.
Squarespace Blog for a Tech Expert
A well-known technology analyst and writer Benedict Evans has also built his website using Squarespace. His site elegantly aligns design with purpose: minimal, fast-loading, and content-driven — emphasizing his thought leadership over aesthetic showmanship. That is why the design is as sleek as possible and is focused on text and deep thinking – there is no flashy graphics or distractions. The restraint in design looks very refreshing to the eye. The essays on his blog are long-form and are given full-width layouts with clear typographic hierarchy.
Squarespace Website for a Travel Blogger
Petrina Darrah’s site is a beautiful marriage of content-rich travel storytelling and strategically placed service funnels. It's an excellent example of how to build a personal travel brand. The blog posts use clean layouts with strong header images, structured headings, key takeaways, descriptive intros, and subheadings – enhancing readability.
Squarespace Website for an E-commerce Website with Blog
Supernatural Kitchen's website is primarily e-commerce that sells natural food products, but also has a recepies section that serves as their content hub. Each recipe page includes photo-rich step-by-step content.
The website's homepage opens with a bold, full-width hero section featuring vibrant product photography against a rich mustard-yellow backdrop – immediately creating an energetic, joyful first impression.
Squarespace Template for Blogs
Here’s out newest Squarespace template for blogs and publications – Modernist. It has all the layouts and sections needed for your editorial project – large feature grids, compact gallery grids, magazine-style carousels and full-width hero sections – strategically designed so you can mix, match and showcase your content exactly the way you want. This Squarespace template is a good place to start your blog without thinking too much about web design.
