Minimalist web design should use fonts that screen friendly and web safe fonts. Web safe fonts are fonts that are common along all version of Windows, Mac, Linux, etc. I recommend you to use 2 or 3 different type of fonts, for the title, content, and navigation.
Font-family property is a prioritized list of font names. Here are the list of font-family. I use this to help me designing website.
This theme is designed based on a iWeb template on my Macbook. And I love it more when it is integrated with Wordpress, make my jobs so much simpler.
The main idea is: make a website with static page on the home page, and set up a blog that has link to the home page, with only single installation of Wordpress in the root folder/directory.
I duplicate the Page Template / page.php and rename it homepage.php (or home.php, or intro.php, it’s up to you). Add this code to the top line:
<?php
/*
Template Name: Homepage
*/
?>
Then I published a page, name it Home, and choose Homepage as the Page Template.