Journal

A minimal, typography-heavy newsletter theme for Ghost.

Demo: https://journal.ghost.io

Instructions

1. Download this theme
2. Log into Ghost, and go to the Design settings area to upload the zip file

Development

Edition styles are compiled using Gulp/PostCSS to polyfill future CSS spec. You'll need Node, Yarn and Gulp installed globally. After that, from the theme's root directory:

# Install
yarn

# Run build & watch for changes
yarn dev

Now you can edit /assets/css/ files, which will be compiled to /assets/built/ automatically.

The zip Gulp task packages the theme files into dist/journal.zip, which you can then upload to your site.

yarn zip

Contribution

This repo is synced automatically with TryGhost/Themes monorepo. If you're looking to contribute or raise an issue, head over to the main repository TryGhost/Themes where our official themes are developed.

Copyright & License

Copyright (c) 2013-2025 Ghost Foundation - Released under the MIT license.