Welcome!

Vitepress is a static generator that is popular for building documentation sites. It's blazing fast and is quick to setup overall. Within a few minutes, you can create a documentation site or blog that's powered by Vite and transforms Markdown files into static pages.

There's a great selection of Vitepress themes available that can transform the design aesthetic of your site. We'll be exploring lots of examples in this list, including those that would be useful for API documentation, blogs, documentation and more.

Let's dive in!

1. Catppuccin Mocha

Catppuccin is a stunning pastel color scheme with four themes, including Mocha, which is shown below. This is a dark-theme variant that provides a lovely design aesthetic.

Here's a preview of what a documentation page looks like:

Live Demo: Cattppucin

GitHub Repo: GitHub Repo

Features:

• Dark, elegant design
• Responsive layout
• Switch between light/dark mode
• Customizable color accents

🔧 Top Tip: Set your theme variant to 'mocha' in your config:

export default {
  themeConfig: {
    catppuccin: {
      variant: 'mocha'
    }
  }
}

Generate with AI Agents: If you'd like to generate a Catppuccin-themed docs site, and don't want to start from the blank page, be sure to take a look at this documentation generator from Isotope Agents. You can connect your GitHub repos and then generate a documentation site for your repos in a Catppuccin theme.

Catppuccin Latté

This is an example of a pastel theme in the Latté variant. You can also specify which accent color you'd like to use too. Full details on this are in the live demo linked above.

Preview

Plus, that's not all! There are also two other themes available, Frappé & Machiatto, with a delightful pastel aesthetic also. There are preview images of these in the documentation, which I'd recommend taking a look at also.

2. VitePress Blog Theme

If you’re looking to build a personal blog or a dev journal, be sure to take a look at this theme! It has built-in post categories, reading time estimates, and author profile pages.

Preview

Website: VitePress Blog Starter Demo

GitHub Repo: GitHub Repo

Features:

• Clean, readable layout
• SEO-friendly
• Dark mode
• Styled with unoCSS
• Built-in local search functionality

3. Vitepress OpenAPI

If you'd like to build API documentation, then I'd recommend taking a look at this theme! It can be used to integrate OpenAPI specifications into your docs. It's a super useful theme if you'd like to create a documentation site for your API.

It displays a code snippet beside each endpoint, along with a live demo too, useful for developers that would like to try out the API first.

🌞 Light theme

🌙 Dark theme

Demo: Vitepress OpenAPI Demo
Docs: Vitepress OpenAPI

GitHub Repo: GitHub Repo

Features:

• Modern design
• Localization support
• Code snippets beside each endpoint
• Live demo of each endpoint
• Intuitive

4. Aplós

This is an incredible theme with a stunning design and visual aesthetic overall. It has multiple page layouts, including a blog post page, a page for showcasing features and more.

There are lots of built-in components which you can add to the site, including a full-width navigation bar, sticky navigation island, alternative tables and more.

If you'd like to build a blog or website that contains guides, be sure to take a look at this theme. It has a delightful user interface overall, and would be excellent as a blog theme.

Preview

Website: Aplós

GitHub Repo: GitHub Repo

Features:

• Ultra-lightweight ⚡
• Beautiful design
• Multiple page layouts
• Simple customization
• Built-in components available

5. API Documentation

You can create API documentation quickly and easily using this theme created by Logicspark. It also has a dark mode support, which you can enable by clicking on the theme button in the header.

🌙 Dark theme

🌞 Light theme

Live Demo: VitePress Blog Theme

GitHub Repo: GitHub Repo

Features:

• Quick setup
• Great for creating API documentation
• Dark mode support

6. Vitepress Blog Pure

If you'd like to use Vitepress to build a blog, then be sure to take a look at this theme. It has a modern, minimalist design overall and stunning typography.

Along with blog post pages, you can also quickly add static pages too; an example is the About page shown in the navigation bar.

Live Demo: Live Demo

GitHub Repo: GitHub Repo

Features:

• Beautiful typography ✨
• Great navigation UI
• Modern, minimalist design
• Fully responsive
• Dark mode

7. VitePress Demo Block

If you'd like to add components to your pages, this theme can help to make it intuitive to add components. Perfect when creating component libraries or documentation pages that require live demos.

Preview

Website: VitePress Demo Block

GitHub Repo: GitHub Repo

Features:

• Prebuilt dark/light color schemes
• Great for adding interactive components
• Useful for component libraries

8. Vitepress Theme You

This is a modern, minimalist theme that would be well-suited towards generating documentation sites. You can also configure the theme to add a cover page too, and this is shown in the live demo linked below.

🌞 Light theme

🌙 Dark theme

Website: Vitepress Theme You

GitHub Repo: GitHub Repo

Features:

• Great for documentation sites
• Clean, modern interface
• Dark mode
• Responsive

9. VitePress Theme Curve

This is a feature-packed theme with all sorts of useful components built-in. It can make for an excellent blog or documentation theme. Blog posts have an animated table of contents, comments sections, category tags and more.

🌞 Light theme

🌙 Dark theme

Website: VitePress Theme Curve

GitHub Repo: GitHub Repo

Features:

• Responsive and mobile-friendly
• Prebuilt dark/light mode
• Great for blog sites
• Animated effects
• Lots of built-in components

10. Lumen

Lumen is a Vitepress theme with extra features built-in including site statistics, announcements, and more.

It has a selection of useful components that would be excellent for adding to a site, including social sharing buttons, link cards and video components.

I'd also recommend taking a look at the demo to see the additional features available too.

🌙 Dark theme

🌞 Light theme

Here is an example of what a documentation page looks like:

Website: Lumen

GitHub Repo: GitHub Repo

Features:

• Social sharing buttons
• Comments via Twikoo
• Dark-mode support
• Site statistics
• Link cards
• Extra built-in components

Wrapping Up

Thanks for reading!

In this guide, we've explored lots of cool VitePress themes including those for building documentation sites, blogs, API docs and more.

Vitepress is a very useful static site generator that can be used for a variety of different contexts. I'd definitely recommend taking a look at the demos linked above to see the themes in action!

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