Happy Theme Thursday! Today, WordPress.com welcomes two new free themes to its collection: Apostrophe and Canard.
Apostrophe
With a pared-down design and bold images, Apostrophe is ideally suited to magazine-style sites, like travelogues, fashion blogs, or foodie sites. It’s an update of Semicolon, built by Automattic’s own Konstantin Kovshenin.

Apostrophe supports Social Links Menus, Featured Images, Site Logos, Post Formats, Custom Menus, Widgets, Custom Backgrounds, and Custom Headers.
Read more about Apostrophe on the Theme Showcase, or activate it on your site from Appearance → Themes!
Canard
Designed by Thomas Guillot, Canard is a flexible and versatile theme perfect for magazines, news sites, and blogs. It lets you highlight specific articles on the homepage and balances readability with a powerful use of photography — all in a layout that works on any device.

Canard also supports the following popular features: Custom Colors, Custom Header, Custom Menu, Social Links, Site Logo, Featured Images, and Widgets.
Read more about Canard on the Theme Showcase, or activate it on your site from Appearance → Themes.
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Both beautiful wow! Seriously considering updating to either theme. Thank you!
Both look great for photos. May try it out later. Thanks!
Excellent – both are great themes. Love the typography on both.
Canard looks nice :))
I’m using Canard! Love it.
I’m using Canard! Me too love it!
I think Canard would be great for a photography blog!
I will use one of them 🙂 .
Switched to Canard from Gazette! They are very similar except for the sidebar. Love that the sidebar is also shown in the main page. ❤