Noir

Noir is a cinematic, dark-first theme for photo-journals, film writing and long visual stories. A full-screen hero, a frosted header that floats over your photographs and a sideways-scrolling Reel put your images first.

Who it is for

• You publish photography, film or visual long-form
• Your stories have strong feature images
• You want a site that feels like a cinema, not a blog
• You sell memberships or plan to

Probably not for you if

• Most of your posts have no images
• You want a bright, colourful look — see Volta
• You publish short news items several times a day

Pages and layouts

Page templates: Membership, Collections, Writers, Signin, Signup, Account.

Extra post layouts: Split.

Getting set up

• Tag images: give each main tag a feature image — it fills the tag page header and the Collections tile.
• Featured posts: mark 4–8 posts as Featured for the Reel.
• Upload the theme zip in Ghost Admin → Settings → Design, then fill in the theme settings.
• Import the sample content if you want to start from the demo and replace it with your own posts.

What you download

• The theme, ready for Ghost 6.0 or later (noir_1.0.0)
• Documentation in HTML
• Sample content you can import into Ghost
• 12 months of updates and support from the people who built it

Requirements

A Ghost 6 site: Ghost(Pro) on a plan that allows custom themes, or self-hosted Ghost. Memberships and paid tiers use Ghost's own members feature and its Stripe connection; the theme adds the pages and the paywall design. Demo photos are not included in the download.