01 What you are actually buying when you buy a theme
A theme is a set of decisions, not a folder of files. Here is how to tell whether those decisions were made carefully, before you spend anything.
For independent creatives.
Ambitious studios.
Ideas ready to launch.
Distinctive designs. Your content. Your next website.
Twenty-five directions, each with a demo you can open and inspect. Plenty of room to make any of them your own.
For independent designers, creative studios and freelance practices.
For architecture, interiors and landscape practices whose work is the argument.
For editorial journals, photographers and destinations worth the detour.
For agencies, collectives and practices that would rather say it than show it.
For course platforms, training programmes and anyone selling structured learning.
For wellness brands, food subscriptions and drinks sold direct.
For earthworks contractors, demolition firms and anyone who sells heavy work.
For software products, practice tools and any SaaS with a demo to book.
For studios and consultancies whose deliverable is a system, not a portfolio.
For plumbers, electricians, carpenters and any trade that quotes and turns up.
For developer infrastructure, technical products and anything sold to engineers.
For job boards, recruitment agencies and hiring marketplaces.
For online courses, early-learning programmes and education sold to families.
For holiday rentals, boutique hotels and retreats.
For bakeries, pâtisseries and artisan food shops.
For developer APIs, data infrastructure and AI products sold to engineers.
For transport, freight and logistics operators selling to shippers.
For makers, small studios and shops selling something made to order.
For deep-tech, ocean and climate platforms, sensor networks and scientific instruments.
For data, AI and security platforms that need to read as calm and accountable.
For training providers, bootcamps and course programmes that teach a technical subject.
For independent web and design agencies that sell work they can measure.
For job boards, recruiters and careers sites that publish the pay.
For cybersecurity firms, consultancies and technical services sold to large accounts.
For SaaS products, analytics tools and startups selling to teams.
Every theme here has a live demo you can open and measure for yourself. One licence covers one published website; client work is the studio licence.
Quaeris themes are built on Astro, which means the loading speed, the site architecture and the internal linking are decided before the first pixel. Both halves ship together, because shipping only the first one is what makes a template look like a template.
type-at-viewport-scale.md, and every surface below updates itself on the next build. A theme is a code project, so this is the honest version of what stands between the download and a site on the internet.
A theme is a folder. Unzip it, install the dependencies, run the dev server and it is on your machine.
npm installCreate a repository and push the folder to it. Private works exactly the same as public.
git pushConnect the repository to Cloudflare Pages. It recognises Astro and fills the build settings in for you.
Astro presetEvery push to the connected branch rebuilds and republishes. A custom domain is one DNS record.
on every pushCloudflare Pages is the worked example, not a requirement. The build writes a folder of static files, so any static host serves it — Netlify, Vercel, GitHub Pages, or a bucket behind a CDN. Nothing in the theme depends on a particular one.
The step-by-step launch guide ↗ Requirements and the full setup ↗A good-looking screenshot is the beginning. The details help you choose.
Every release lists its page set, from the homepage to the article, author and category templates your project actually needs.
Page list with each releaseDesktop and mobile layouts, navigation, focus states and interactions, checked at the widths people actually use rather than the one the screenshot was taken at.
How customisation works ↗Source files, installation requirements, licence and support terms are published on the theme page so you can decide before you spend anything.
Exact package with each releasePick the design that fits your project. One licence covers one published website; building for clients is the studio licence.
€59 a theme
One licence, one published website. Work you deliver to clients is the studio licence: €399 for the whole collection, and a year of everything released after it.
01 A theme is a set of decisions, not a folder of files. Here is how to tell whether those decisions were made carefully, before you spend anything.
02 A headline set at 22vw is an architectural element, not big text. The rules that work at 16px stop working long before you get there.
03 Typed schemas, references between authors, categories and posts, and images that become WebP without anyone remembering to convert them.
A few things to know about working with an Astro theme.
The prices are published, and so is what each licence covers. Payment goes through Lemon Squeezy, which handles the transaction, the VAT and your invoice. Themes go on sale one at a time: until a theme has a checkout of its own, its button takes you to the store rather than straight to that theme, and its demo is open to inspection in the meantime.
An Astro theme is a code project. You work in an editor and follow the installation and deployment instructions. A coding assistant can help with changes, but you still review and test the site before it goes out.
Yes. Give it your business context and work in small steps, and read the diff before you accept it. An assistant is good at the mechanical work — renaming routes, replacing demo copy, moving a token across files. It is not good at redesign, because a theme holds together through constraints it will happily break in twenty files at once.
Yes, under the studio licence — that is what it is for. It covers client work across the whole collection with no project limit. A theme licence covers one published website of your own; a site a client pays you for is the other case. Both deliver the same files, and neither permits reselling the theme itself.
No. A theme is the starting code and design for your website. Hosting and a domain are separate services unless an offer says otherwise. Each theme lists its deployment requirements.
Support scope and update policy are stated on each theme page. A studio licence also carries twelve months of new releases; what it has already given you stays yours after that, and nothing stops working. No lifetime or unlimited-support offer has been announced.