Squarespace 7.0 Template Comparison Chart: All 22 Families
Squarespace version 7.0 has 22 template families, and the family — not the individual template — determines what your site can do. Every template inside a family shares the same code, features and style options. So the only comparison that matters is family against family. The tables below cover all 22, including Marquee, which Squarespace's own comparison charts omit.
Squarespace publishes this data as six image files. Below it is text you can search, copy and quote.
How to read this Squarespace 7.0 comparison chart
Three things before the tables.
Find your family first. Your template name and your family name are usually different. Hayden is in the Bedford family; Mojave is in the Brine family. If you do not know yours, how to tell what Squarespace template you're using settles it in about fifteen seconds. For the complete family-by-family roster of every 7.0 template, see the full list of Squarespace 7.0 templates — this page compares features, that one is the inventory.
Features cannot be mixed. Squarespace states it plainly: "It isn't possible to mix and match features from more than one template." If your family does not have index pages, no amount of Custom CSS adds them. Switching family is the only route.
Version 7.1 is a single family. Every 7.1 site has identical features, so 7.1 appears as one row rather than a column of variants.
Squarespace 7.0 page types and content by family
The first table covers what each family can build: index pages, blog layout, store type, gallery style, and any page type unique to that family.
Album pages, cover pages, events pages and layout pages exist in every 7.0 family and are not worth a column. Album pages do not exist in 7.1 at all.
Squarespace 7.0 layout, navigation and banners by family
The second table covers structure: where the header sits, how many navigation menus you get, whether there is a content sidebar, and what kind of banner the family supports.
* Squarespace's site-layout chart shows a blog sidebar for Wexley, but Wexley is not listed in Squarespace's own sidebar guide. Treat it as unconfirmed and check in your own site styles before relying on it.
Five and Wells are the only two 7.0 families with a site-wide content sidebar. Everywhere else a sidebar means a blog sidebar.
Which Squarespace 7.0 templates have index pages
Index pages are the single biggest structural difference between 7.0 families, and eleven of the 22 have them. Squarespace groups them into three designs: grid (each sub-page becomes a clickable thumbnail), stacked (each sub-page becomes a section in one long scrolling page) and slideshow (each sub-page becomes a full-bleed background image with a content overlay).
Bedford's stacked index accepts layout pages only — the tightest restriction of any index in Squarespace 7.0, and the reason Bedford sites tend to have simpler homepages than Brine sites. Version 7.1 has no index page; stacked indexes become page sections and grid indexes become portfolio pages.
Banners and parallax scrolling in Squarespace 7.0
A page banner is a full-bleed image or video set as the page's featured image. Eleven families support them, as marked in the layout table above. Farro and Skye are the odd ones: they display banners on blog posts only, not on ordinary pages.
Parallax scrolling exists in exactly two Squarespace 7.0 families: Brine and Marquee. Squarespace's parallax guide names Brine directly and adds that "the discontinued Marquee family also supports parallax scrolling." In Brine it is a single site-wide switch — Site styles → Main: overlay → Enable parallax — and it then applies to every banner on the site. There is no per-page control, and no CSS route to parallax in any other 7.0 family.
Brine also gives banners an intro area: a block-editable region that overlays the banner, so you can put text, buttons and forms on top of a full-bleed image. No other 7.0 family has it. That single feature is why so many 7.0 template shops build exclusively for Brine.
Version 7.1 dropped site-wide parallax but added a parallax option inside section background image effects.
Blog layouts by template family in Squarespace 7.0
Every 7.0 family has a blog. What differs is the landing-page layout and which post-level controls exist.
Farro and Skye are the two 7.0 families built for publishing volume, and they are the only ones with related posts, infinite scroll and author profiles. If those matter and you are on a list-blog family, you cannot add them — that is a family-level capability.
Share buttons exist in every 7.0 family and in none of 7.1. Brine, Farro, Skye, Tremont and York use the Advanced share button set; the rest use Classic.
Classic, Advanced and Unique store pages in Squarespace 7.0
Squarespace 7.0 shipped three separate store page engines, and the difference is real rather than cosmetic.
Advanced — Brine, Farro, Skye, Tremont, York. The newest 7.0 commerce layout, closest to 7.1.
Unique — Galapagos and Supply. Custom store code specific to those two templates, with on-hover product photo options Galapagos does not share with anything else.
Classic — the remaining 15 families. The original 7.0 store layout.
All three cap out at 200 products per store page, which is also the hard limit the 7.0-to-7.1 update tool enforces. Version 7.1 raises that to 10,000 products per page and per site, and 250 variants against 7.0's 100.
Product waitlists were template-dependent in 7.0. In 7.1 they are available on every site.
Sidebars and extra navigation menus in Squarespace 7.0
Two separate things get called "sidebar" in Squarespace 7.0, and mixing them up wastes a lot of time.
A content sidebar is a block-editable column — text, archive blocks, newsletter blocks. Nine families have one, and in eight of those it appears on blog pages only. Five and Wells are the exceptions, with site-wide sidebars.
A navigation sidebar puts the main menu down the side of the site instead of across the top. Aviator, Five, Supply and Wells support it; Bedford offers a partial version on folders, store pages and indexes.
Secondary and footer navigation are separate menus you build in the Pages panel. Brine and Farro are the only two families with both. York, Supply and Wells have secondary navigation only; Adirondack, Bedford, Galapagos, Pacific and Skye have footer navigation only.
None of these three features exists in Squarespace 7.1. Secondary navigation items are appended to the end of the main navigation during the update, and sidebar navigation has to be rebuilt manually with linked text.
Discontinued families and templates you cannot reinstall
Two caveats that change how you read the tables above.
The entire Marquee family is discontinued. All seven members — Marquee, Adversary, Alex, Eamon, Ginger, Mint and Shift — were retired in June 2017. Squarespace's guide says outright that "fixing issues in discontinued templates like Marquee is a lower priority for us", and recommends switching to Brine. Marquee sites still run; Marquee is simply absent from the official comparison charts, which is why most competing charts omit it too.
Discontinued templates cannot be reinstalled once removed. Squarespace's switching guide is explicit: "Before you uninstall a template, ensure it isn't discontinued. If it's discontinued, you won't be able to reinstall it." Switching is reversible; uninstalling is not. Fourteen templates inside the 22 families are discontinued, including Encore in Aviator, Lincoln and Custom Template in Brine, Bryler and Fulton in Pacific, and Jones and Taylor in York.
A discontinued template also blocks the 7.0-to-7.1 update tool: you must switch to a supported template before the Design → Update to Version 7.1 option appears at all.
How Squarespace 7.1 compares to the 7.0 families
Reading down the 7.1 row: it wins on commerce, blog layouts and editing flexibility, and loses on structural variety.
Gone in 7.1: album pages, index pages, info pages, taglines, fixed headers, secondary navigation, sidebar navigation, content sidebars, share buttons, site-wide parallax, site-wide background images, custom Adobe fonts, the Developer Platform, and template switching itself.
New in 7.1: Fluid Engine, page sections, auto-layouts, portfolio pages, course pages, video pages, site-wide animations, section background images with effects, 10,000 products, and one consistent feature set on every site.
The honest summary is that 7.1 replaced 22 rigid structures with one flexible one. If you are weighing the move, the full 7.0 to 7.1 upgrade guide works through what actually transfers.
For context on how much of a minority position 7.0 now is: across 54 Squareko-built client sites measured in August 2026 (Playwright/Chromium lab test, cloud datacenter, unthrottled, single run per site), 53 of 54 run Squarespace 7.1.
If you have read the chart, found that your family cannot do the thing you need, and are now deciding between switching 7.0 templates and rebuilding on 7.1, that decision is worth making once and making properly — a rebuild on one of our premium Squarespace templates is where most of those conversations end up. Most readers of this page need the table and nothing else, which is why it is the first thing on it.
FAQ
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Twenty-two. Ten families contain multiple templates — Aviator, Bedford, Brine, Farro, Marquee, Montauk, Pacific, Skye, Tremont and York — and twelve contain a single template, where the family name and the template name are the same thing.
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Eleven families: Avenue, Bedford, Brine, Flatiron, Forte, Marquee, Momentum, Montauk, Pacific, Supply, Tremont and York. Avenue, Flatiron, Montauk, Supply and York use a grid index; Bedford, Brine, Marquee and Pacific use stacked; Forte, Momentum and Tremont use slideshow.
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Only the Brine family and the discontinued Marquee family in version 7.0. In Brine it is a site-wide switch under Site styles → Main: overlay → Enable parallax, and it affects every banner on the site. Squarespace 7.1 has no site-wide parallax, only a parallax option on section background images.
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Brine, Farro, Skye, Tremont and York. Galapagos and Supply have Unique store pages with their own code, and the remaining fifteen families use Classic store pages. All 7.0 store pages cap at 200 products per page.
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No. Squarespace states that "it isn't possible to mix and match features from more than one template." Index pages, sidebars, parallax and banner types are built into each family's code, so the only way to gain one is to switch to a family that has it.
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In the Help Center article "Template comparison charts". All six charts there are image files rather than text, and the discontinued Marquee family is absent from every one of them.
Author Bio
I'm Walid Hasan, a Certified Squarespace Expert and Squarespace Circle Platinum Partner with over 12 years of hands-on experience designing and optimizing high-performing websites. Over the years, I've had the privilege of building more than 2,000 Squarespace websites for clients around the world, always focusing on clean design, strong user experience, and conversion-driven results.
