Squarespace Brine Family Templates: The Complete List
The Squarespace Brine family contains 47 templates, and all 47 run identical code. Two of them — Lincoln and Custom Template — are discontinued. Every member shares the same features, the same style options, the same class names and the same template ID, 55f0aac0e4b0f0a5b7e0b22e. They differ only in default fonts, colours and demo content, which means any Brine tutorial or CSS snippet works on all of them.
That makes Brine the largest family in Squarespace version 7.0 by a wide margin. The next biggest, York, has nine.
Every template in the Squarespace Brine family
Taken from Squarespace's Brine family guide, verified against the version-and-template guide in August 2026. Both list the same 47 names.
Forty-five are still installable on an existing Squarespace 7.0 site. Lincoln (retired April 2017) and Custom Template (retired December 2019) are not.
If your template is on this list, every Brine guide applies to your site, including Squarespace's own. If it is not, check the full list of Squarespace 7.0 templates — some names that look like Brine members belong to Pacific or York.
What every Brine family template shares
The point of a family is that its members are the same product with different paint. Everything below is true of all 47 Squarespace Brine templates.
Page types. Album, blog (Standard grid/list), cover, events, gallery (Standard), index (Stacked), layout, and store pages (Advanced).
A two-part header. Brine splits the site header into a top header and a bottom header, and you place elements — branding, main navigation, secondary navigation, cart, search, social icons — into either. The bottom header can carry a background image and an intro area. This is the most configurable header in Squarespace 7.0 and the single reason most 7.0 template shops built on Brine.
The intro area. A block-editable region that sits over the banner, so you can put text blocks, button blocks and forms directly on top of a full-bleed image. No other 7.0 family has it.
Parallax scrolling. Brine and the discontinued Marquee family are the only two families in Squarespace 7.0 with parallax. Turn it on at Site styles → Main: overlay → Enable parallax. It is site-wide: every banner on the site gets the effect, and there is no per-page control.
Stacked index pages. A Brine index accepts gallery pages and layout pages as sub-pages, and stacks them into one long scrolling page. Each section can have its own background image and its own overlay colour.
Three navigation menus. Brine and Farro are the only 7.0 families with main, secondary and footer navigation.
Content inset and separate mobile styles. Brine exposes mobile-specific style tweaks that most 7.0 families do not.
No content sidebar. Squarespace's guidance for Brine sites that want sidebar-style content is to "add extra content to the footer". No CSS adds a real sidebar, because the markup is not there.
What actually differs between Brine family templates
Default styling and demo content. That is the whole list.
When you install Mojave rather than Brine, you get a different starting palette, a different font pairing, different default header layout choices, and different placeholder images. Every one of those is a Site Styles value you can change in a few minutes, and none of them is locked to the template.
The practical consequences:
A Brine CSS snippet works on Hyde, Wav, Margot and the other 44. Class names are family-level, so .Header-branding, .Index-page, .Intro and the rest are identical everywhere.
Searching for your family beats searching for your template. "Brine header CSS" returns far more usable results than "Mercer header CSS", and they are the same code.
Switching between Brine members changes almost nothing. If you are already on a Brine template, installing a different Brine template does not unlock a single new feature. Restyle instead.
Every member reports "templateId":"55f0aac0e4b0f0a5b7e0b22e" in its page source, which is why no detector tool can tell one Brine template from another — the identifier is a family identifier. The Squarespace template detector guide covers what the page source can and cannot tell you.
How the Brine family compares to the other large 7.0 families
Brine is not the only capable family in Squarespace 7.0, but it is the only one that combines a configurable header, parallax and an Advanced store.
Squarespace itself recommends Brine as the replacement for Marquee, and publishes a dedicated "Switching from Marquee to Brine" guide. If you need a full feature-by-feature view of all 22 families, the Squarespace 7.0 template comparison chart has it.
Known quirks in every Brine family template
Because all 47 share code, they share bugs. Squarespace maintains a Troubleshooting Brine article, and these are the behaviours it documents — each one applies to every member of the family.
Banners do not display everywhere. In Brine, banners are unsupported on individual blog post, product and event detail pages, on cover pages, and on the main index page itself. On an index you add featured images to the content sections inside the index, not to the index page. This surprises people constantly and is not a fault in your setup.
Banners not appearing at all usually trace to two site style values rather than a missing image. Increase Main → Intro padding (with background image), then check that Main: overlay → Overlay color is not fully opaque. An opaque overlay renders a banner invisible while leaving it technically present.
Banners not going full-bleed is a site layout setting. In Site styles → Site, choose Design: full width or Design: full background, then uncheck Show border under Site: border.
Blog comments are off by default in Brine, even when you enable comments on an individual post. Turn them on globally at Blog preferences → Comments settings → Enable comments globally.
The header button trick. Brine has no dedicated header CTA button. The documented workarounds are to leave a single link in the secondary navigation and style that menu as a button, or to add a button block to the intro area on a per-page basis.
Column layouts break under floated blocks. A single column with a content inset wraps around floated blocks; if the floated block is taller than the column content it disrupts multi-column content below it. The fix is a spacer block above the multi-column row.
Squarespace's own framing on all of this is worth reading exactly as written: "Although we still support Squarespace version 7.0, fixing bugs or issues is a lower priority for us while we focus on our current platform, version 7.1." Brine is supported. It is not being actively improved.
Why published Brine rosters disagree
Search for the Brine family and you will get counts of 40, 41, 44, 46 and "over 40". They are not all wrong so much as differently scoped, and it is worth knowing which one you are reading.
Squarespace lists 47. That count includes Brine itself and both discontinued members.
Big Cat Creative lists 44. Their list is accurate as far as it goes but omits three names: Brine itself, plus Lincoln and Custom Template, the two discontinued members. That is a defensible editorial choice for a "which template should I pick" post — you cannot pick a discontinued one — but it makes the list wrong as a reference.
Third-party detector databases run short too. The detector tool we tested in August 2026 returned 40 Brine members and was missing Lincoln.
Custom Template is the one most lists drop, and it is not really a template in the marketing sense. Squarespace describes it as the template applied to "sites automatically created after answering questions when getting started", and retired it in December 2019. A surprising number of 7.0 sites built between 2016 and 2019 are running it, and their owners have no idea they are on Brine.
So: if you are auditing a site, use 47. If you are choosing a template to install, 45 is the number that matters.
Lincoln and Custom Template: the two discontinued Brine templates
Both still work. Neither can be installed again.
Squarespace's position on discontinued 7.0 templates is unambiguous: "Your site will stay online, and you can continue to use and edit the template as you've always been able to." A discontinued template may still receive fixes and features, "but this is not guaranteed for every template we've retired."
The trap is uninstalling. Squarespace's switching guide states: "Before you uninstall a template, ensure it isn't discontinued. If it's discontinued, you won't be able to reinstall it." Switching away from Lincoln is reversible. Uninstalling Lincoln is not. If you want to try another template, install it and preview it, but leave Lincoln in the Template panel.
One more consequence: a discontinued template blocks the 7.0-to-7.1 update tool. If your site runs Lincoln or Custom Template, Design → Update to Version 7.1 will not appear until you switch to a supported template first. Any of the other 45 Brine templates qualifies, and switching within the family costs you nothing structurally.
Can you still start a new Squarespace Brine site?
Not from the template store. In August 2026 we checked the URL Squarespace's own Help Center still gives for the "version 7.0 template store" — squarespace.com/templates/browse/v7 — and every one of the 198 templates it returns is a version 7.1 design. There is no public route left to start a new 7.0 trial on Brine.
What still works: duplicating an existing 7.0 site. Squarespace documents that duplicating a version 7.0 site "creates a new version 7.0 website with the same site content and an identical design". That is a reference copy rather than a fresh build, and the duplicate is a new trial site with no orders, analytics or domain.
If you have an existing Brine site, you can also still install any of the 45 available Brine templates from inside Design → Template → Install new template. The store closed to new signups; the switcher did not.
Should you stay on Brine or move to 7.1?
Brine remains the most capable 7.0 family, and Squarespace has announced no end-of-life date for version 7.0. Staying is a legitimate choice, and whether old Squarespace templates are still supported covers the support position in detail.
Move if you need what only 7.1 has: Fluid Engine, auto-layouts, course pages, video pages, more than 200 products on a store page, or site-wide animations. Stay if your Brine site works, your Custom CSS is extensive, and none of those are on your list.
The thing to plan for is that Brine's distinctive features — the two-part header, the intro area, site-wide parallax, secondary navigation, stacked indexes — do not survive the update as-is. How to reproduce Brine's capabilities in 7.1 works through each one.
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 decided the Brine site has run its course and the sensible move is a rebuild rather than a conversion, that is the point where a premium Squarespace template built for 7.1 saves the most time. Most Brine sites do not need that; they need a restyle and a couple of hours in Site Styles.
FAQ
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Forty-seven, according to Squarespace's own Brine family guide. Two of them — Lincoln and Custom Template — are discontinued, leaving 45 that can still be installed on an existing version 7.0 site. Brine is the largest family in Squarespace 7.0; York is second with nine.
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Check the roster on this page, or open Design → Template and look for the Live label. You can also view the page source: every Brine family template reports the template ID 55f0aac0e4b0f0a5b7e0b22e, because family members share one identifier.
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Default fonts, colours, header layout defaults and demo content. Nothing else. All 47 share the same code, features, style options and class names, so a CSS snippet or tutorial written for one works on all of them.
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Yes. Brine and the discontinued Marquee family are the only two version 7.0 families with parallax. Enable it at Site styles → Main: overlay → Enable parallax. It applies site-wide to every banner, with no per-page control.
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Yes. Lincoln is a Brine family template that Squarespace discontinued in April 2017. Many third-party lists omit it. Lincoln sites keep working and stay editable, but Lincoln cannot be reinstalled once it has been uninstalled from a site.
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On an existing version 7.0 site, yes — any of the 45 available Brine templates, via Design → Template → Install new template. You cannot start a new site on Brine; the version 7.0 template store URL now returns only 7.1 templates.
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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.
