Noir

A detective's dossier laid out on the desk. Case-file cards, typewriter type, and black redaction bars set the tone, with a faint film grain over the whole surface. By day it reads like a high-key gallery wall. At night it drops to darkroom black. The mood is investigative and a little tense, and the type stays legible throughout.

Good for

We built Noir for storytelling with an edge. Treat these as starting points, not limits. If the mood fits your brand, use it:

• True-crime podcasts and newsletters
• Investigative journalism and long-form reporting
• Mystery authors and book launches
• Escape rooms and immersive events

What you get

• Five color presets, each with a tuned light mode and a tuned dark mode: Cold Case, Evidence Red, Safelight, Interrogation, and Redaction.
• Source Serif 4 for reading and IBM Plex Mono for labels and stamps, both bundled. Fonts stay admin-controlled, so you can swap them from the typography settings.
• Four persona blocks: a case dossier, a stamped case-file card, an evidence board with pinned notes, and a redacted quote with blacked-out lines.
• A demo site that installs when you activate the theme: a home page, an about page, a short blog, and a contact page whose form emails your admins.
• Every core block restyled to match, plus a themed login screen and a themed 404 page.

Install

Install from the BlockNinja registry, then pick a preset and assign your fonts in the admin. Activate the demo content if you want a fully built starting point.