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30 Excellent Squarespace Website Examples in the Wild (2024)
Some of which you may have already visited numerous times
As most templates heavily rely on photography which makes them easier to customize, it’s no surprise so many businesses choose Squarespace as a platform to build their websites on. This is why today we’re going to look at 30 excellent live Squarespace examples of eCommerce, blogs, business, and portfolio websites.
Squarespace is a SaaS (Software as a Service) website builder that packs the tools you need to build and maintain your own website, including templates, a domain name, automatic updates, eCommerce features, and web hosting. It prioritizes design presentation as the most crucial factor and comes with special capabilities such as a menu content block (for Restaurant websites), podcast syndication, and a donation system.
At the end of this post, we also answered the 3 most common questions about Squarespace – How to Find Out Which Squarespace Template a Site is Using? What are the Pros and Cons of Squarespace? When You Should Use Squarespace?
Squarespace templates share a similar aesthetic and feel with big photos, clean design, and bold typography. This signature look makes them very easy to recognize. Whether you’re looking for inspiration or you wish to examine what the platform is capable of, here’s a collection of 30 websites made with Squarespace, some of which you may have already visited numerous times.
1. Essential Roots: Custom Squarespace Catering Website
We’ll start with a custom Squarespace website for a plant-based catering and meal-prep start-up company by Chef Radisha Rowe. The website has a beautiful modern design and soft colors, custom service badges, a lot of video material, and UI animations.
- Theme: Custom
- Topic: Food and Restaurants
2. Dreaming with Jeff: Collaborating with Squarespace
Squarespace collaborates with Jeff Bridges on sleep tapes with proceeds to No Kid Hungry. The website is a single-page website with interactive design, surrealistic animations, and a playlist, where you can hear all the tracks.
- Theme: Custom
- Topic: Music
3. Mike Perry Studio: Fun Portfolio with Psychedelic Design
Although Squarespace websites usually follow clean minimalistic aesthetics with big images and bold titles, this example went absolutely off-road with a psychedelic colorful design and lots of animations. The template is fully custom and shows the designer’s creativity.
- Theme: Custom
- Topic: Portfolio website; Digital and traditional art and illustrations
4. Rebecca Mapes: ARIA-Based eCommerce Website
Back to the clean design and luxurious aesthetics with soft colors and classy high-quality images. ARIA is one of the most popular Squarespace templates that you can customize to fit your brand without writing a single line of code. In this example, ARIA works perfectly to present blown glass in functional, organic shapes; sculptural jewelry that is both minimalist and nostalgic.
- Theme: ARIA
- Topic: eCommerce; Custom hand-made jewelry
5. Beta Takaki: ANYA-Based UI UX Designer Portfolio
Squarespace is also a good platform of choice for artistic portfolios. In this example, Beta Takaki uses the ANYA template for a clean homepage and UI/UX case studies.
- Theme: ANYA
- Topic: Portfolio website; UI/UX design and product design
6. Yarza Twins: ARTESIA-Based Agency Website
Yarza Twins is an award-winning design agency based in London and Paris. The agency website uses ARTESIA for a minimalistic image-based layout as the perfect template to present their latest work.
- Theme: ARTESIA
- Topic: Design agency website; eCommerce
7. High Gloss: FLATIRON-Based Art Studio Portfolio
Another art studio website takes full advantage of Squarespace templates. High Gloss is a product design studio that uses FLATIRON in dark mode to give its work a nostalgic retro feeling.
- Theme: FLATIRON
- Topic: Portfolio website; Product design studio
8. Aron Mayo: Custom Brand Designer Portfolio
Next we have a freelancer portfolio of UI designer Aron Mayo with a custom template with a simple layout that consists of soft background color, big fonts, and high-quality preview images. The soft shadows are one of the small details that turns a generic design into a very interesting one.
- Theme: Custom
- Topic: Portfolio website; Art and design
9. Samantha Keely Smith: WELLS-Based Art Portfolio
Squarespace works well for all types of portfolios, not just digital, but also for traditional art. In this case, Samantha Keely’s website serves as a small exhibition of her oil paintings. Some of these paintings are still available for purchase, however, the portfolio doesn’t have eCommerce functionality included, so purchasing paintings happens via external websites.
- Theme: WELLS
- Topic: Portfolio; Traditional art
10. Villa Rondinelli: Custom Booking Website
Here’s an example of a Squarespace-based website for simple booking. Although it doesn’t have an added advanced booking functionality with a calendar, you can still book by filling out a form and leaving a phone number, email, and a message. The website serves to make a presentation of the accommodation base rather than serve as a booking website.
- Theme: Custom
- Topic: Booking; Accommodation
11. Projects Contemporary Furniture: Interior Design Business Site
Another example of a website using the ARIA template for minimalistic design. Project Contemporary Furniture showcases its newest designs with an interactive image-based Homepage and soft brand colors.
- Theme: ARIA
- Topic: Business website; Interior design and furnishing
12. Soilboy Plant Shop: Custom eCommerce Website
Soilboy is a treat for gardeners who wish to buy plant boards, ceramic planters, soil mixes, and other items for their plants. The website is fully custom and has an added eCommerce functionality that allows users to shop directly without getting their experience interrupted by external links.
- Theme: Custom
- Topic: eCommerce; Plant shop
13. Minna Drink: Custom and Fresh eCommerce Website
Minna Drink uses a custom template to build memorable branding with witty copy, amazing product photos, and a custom color scheme. On the downside, the website is for presentation only, as purchasing the drinks happens externally through Amazon.
- Theme: Custom
- Topic: eCommerce; Food and Restaurants
14. Rose Design Branding: CHARLOTTE-Based Business Website
Rose specializes in creating, evolving, and developing brands. They use the CHARLOTTE template to present their own brand identity in a simple and compact way. They cleverly use the hero image on the Homepage to show visitors a slideshow of completed brand projects.
- Theme: CHARLOTTE
- Topic: Business website; Branding
15. Supernatural Kitchen: Custom and Creative
In the world of colored baking chips, “white chocolate” comes with air quotes, and colors come with chemicals. So Supernatural Kitchen created chips with real ingredients and website with custom Squarespace template to enforce their brand through lovely colorful visuals, and clean minimalistic design.
- Theme: Custom
- Topic: eCommerce; Food and Restaurants; Recipes
16. Unwrp: Custom eCommerce Website
Unwrp offers a curated selection of fun and cool gifting options that everyone will love. We see another clean custom Squarespace template with UI animations, minimum text, card sections, and custom fonts.
- Theme: Custom
- Topic: eCommerce; Pattern and packaging design
17. Sarica Studio: ARIA-Based Digital Shop
Sarica documents her experiences in hand-crafted journals and sketchbooks and will help you do the same by offering printable handwriting practice sheet guides with dotted grids. The ARIA-based website has an added eCommerce functionality, video tutorials, and a beautiful scrapbook-style custom design.
- Theme: ARIA
- Topic: eCommerce; Journals and sketchbooks design
18. One Mag: Digital Magazine
Using fashion, art, and design as lenses, One Magazine explores the modern woman and her approach to life. The website is another example of the many uses of ARIA with eCommerce and blog functionality.
- Theme: ARIA
- Topic: eCommerce; Blog; Magazine; Digital and Physical Issues
19. Dudleys Food Catering and Events Business Website
Dudleys does offer the option to book the restaurant for a particular event, however, they don’t accept reservations. This is why the website doesn’t feature booking functionality, instead one can check the booking options for events via email. The website uses the CHARLOTTE template specially made for hotels and restaurants and gives its own twist with a beautiful modular layout for the hero and gallery sections.
- Theme: CHARLOTTE
- Topic: Food and Restaurants
20. Aesop Wines: Online Winery and Delivery
A fully custom online winery with product photography, interactive design, and eCommerce functionality. Aesop Wines focuses on product images and smooth animations, while the layout is very simple and minimalistic.
- Theme: Custom
- Topic: eCommerce; Online Winery
21. Bathhouse: Booking Website
The website stays true to the signature look of Squarespace-based design with lots of white space, a box layout, big fonts, and big images. Although it serves to compel visitors to book an appointment, the website doesn’t have an added booking functionality, rather uses an external but custom page that belongs to the brand.
- Theme: Custom
- Topic: Booking; Accommodation; Restaurants
22. Fat Choy: Online Vegan Chinese Restaurant
Fat Choy uses a custom template to present their brand, restaurant, and menu. It has a fully custom scrapbook-style design with illustrations, handwritten fonts, and polaroid photos of the meal. Ordering food redirects you to Order Store.
- Theme: Custom
- Topic: eCommerce; Food and Restaurants
23. Oishii: Whole Foods Online Market
A fully-functioning eCommerce website for purchasing whole foods. The website has a zip-code-based search to redirect you to the closest possible market in your area.
- Theme: Custom
- Topic: eCommerce; Food and Restaurants
24. KeyNest: Key Exchange Solution Website
KeyNest is a key exchange solution for Airbnb hosts, serviced apartment operators, and estate agents. The website uses a custom template with a fluid card-based layout and serves to present software that helps visitors find key storage next to them, automate check-ins and track keys inside and outside offices.
- Theme: Custom
- Topic: Storage Solution
25. Narciso Rodriguez: Luxurious Business Website
Narciso Rodriguez is one of the foremost American designers for the last two decades and his fashion house is based in New York City where he shows his women’s ready-to-wear collections. His website uses a custom template powered by Squarespace CMS and serves as a business portfolio to showcase the designer’s newest collections.
One of the great strengths of this website is the added functionality for accessibility that allows visitors to turn on XL oversize widgets, change contrast, highlight links, pause animations, adjust the line height, change text-align, make the text dyslexia friendly, etc.
- Theme: Custom
- Topic: Business website; Fashion
26. Aifny: Architecture Studio FORTE-Based Website
Afinity’s business website presents the architecture studio’s work for apartments, lofts, houses, multi-family residences, retails, etc. It’s based on the FORTE template and has a modern professional design, perfect for portfolio gallery, and company presentation.
- Theme: FORTE
- Topic: Business website; Architecture
27. Lumin Magazine: Independent Publication
Lumin is an independent print magazine curated for people of color, all about well-living, mindfulness, and the appreciation of art and craftsmanship. The website is a functioning eCommerce store that sells physical copies of the magazine’s issues with compelling written product copy and preview images.
- Theme: Custom
- Topic: eCommerce; Magazine
28. Back Market: Technology eCommerce Custom Website
Back Market has the unique value concept of renewing and restoring devices and selling them at secondhand prices. They have created a transparent grading system that takes into account both the appearance and technical condition of our devices. The website itself is an online store with advanced eCommerce functionality, a huge well- structured catalog, and a customized checkout process.
- Theme: Custom
- Topic: eCommerce, Technology
29. FUKT Magazine: A Magazine for Contemporary Drawing
FUKT magazine is beautifully designed with a focus on the visual, with occasional interviews with interesting artists and essays by engaging authors while the design and themes change for each issue. The website uses a custom Squarespace template and added eCommerce functionality. It’s really minimalistic and simple, well-structured and a true pleasure to browse.
- Theme: Custom
- Topic: eCommerce, Magazine
30. Encore Digital Medias: Financial Agency Website
And the last example is for a business website that combines Encore Digital Media services with portfolio case studies and a blog. It uses a custom template with a modern design in dark mode, a custom color scheme, and a custom font.
- Theme: Custom
- Topic: Business website; Finances
Already have a Squarespace project in mind? We’d love to start a conversation with you and discuss your vision. Let’s see if we’ll be a good match.
👉 How to Find Out Which Squarespace Template a Site is Using?
If you find yourself admiring a Squarespace website and wondering what template they used, there’s an easy way to do this.
✔️ Finding whether or not the website uses Squarespace
View the source code for the page. In Firefox or Chrome, right-click on the page and click “View Page Source”. Use CTRL+F and type in “templateID”. This will search the source code for the line templateID that is a part of the Squarespace code base. This line serves to identify which template the site is using.
If such code does not exist, the site isn’t using Squarespace.
✔️ Detecting the Squarespace theme by ID
To find out which template a Squarespace site uses, copy the “templateID” number (ex. 52e96934e4b0ea14d0f64568 ) and paste it into this table.
✔️ Detecting a Squarespace theme by URL
You can use online theme detectors such as What Square Space or FINDR to find out the particular Squarespace theme a website is using. Simply paste the URL of the website you’re interested in and the detector will give you the name and link of the theme. Keep in mind that some websites are custom-designed, so the tools won’t be able to detect them.
👉 What are the Pros and Cons of Using Squarespace?
Squarespace is easy to use, closed, and curated platform with everything you need for small conventional websites. This includes blogs, portfolios, small business websites, and restaurant websites.
Squarespace Advantages:
- Limited, top-quality templates. Most templates heavily rely on photography which makes them easier to customize.
- All websites made by Squarespace are responsive.
- The platform has analytic tools built in.
- Hosted solution
- Intuitive admin panel navigation.
- WYSIWYG editor with drag & drop.
- Blogging feature with everything you could think of, from rich commenting capabilities to scheduling posts, AMP support and etc.
Squarespace Disadvantages:
- Basic built-in functionalities.
- Creating multilingual websites can be challenging.
- Only one sub-navigation which makes it not suitable for bigger businesses with larger eCommerce websites.
- Squarespace templates score low ratings by Google’s Page Speed Tool.
- The platform doesn’t provide backup solutions. You can only export product and blog data.
- No free plan.
- There are no advanced marketing tools.
- No autosave.
👉 When You Should Use Squarespace?
Squarespace is a trusted brand that focuses on the modern and beautiful look of websites. The platform is perfect for artists, designers, or photographers who require their online business site to match their work. Additionally, it’s also a great choice for beginners as it’s a hosted AIO solution that requires zero coding skills and offers a fairly intuitive back-end.
However, Squarespace isn’t suited for larger and growing businesses that require constant and specific functionalities, more complex navigation, and powerful SEO. For such kind of website, you might wish to consider more powerful tools with more control such as Shopify, WordPress, or Craft CMS.
Conclusion
Squarespace is ideal for artists, designers, and photographers who want to showcase and sell their artwork and want their website to match their artistic preferences. The platform offers a limited, but high-quality collection of customizable templates with a clean and modern look. Most templates heavily rely on photography which makes them easier to customize. In this blog post we hand-picked 30 live websites that use some of these templates or go a step further with custom templates.
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