Solar Theme for Hugo

A minimalistic theme for Hugo blogs, fork of Solar Theme for Ghost. There is a demo available on Hugos theme list. See the example config.toml for a starting point.

Color schemes

Solar offers three color schemes: (Solarized) light, (Solarized) dark (default) and gray. Additionally there is a preference setting which switches between light and dark according to the users preference.

Screenshot

Additional HTML

Custom HTML can be injected just before </head> and </body> by creating a head.html or foot.html inside the sites layouts/partials/ folder. The default (empty) logo can be overwritten by creating a logo.svg in static/img/.

Syntax Highlighting

This theme does not bring a syntax highlighter. If you want to use Hugos built in one, remember to update the color scheme by setting pygmentsStyle. The pygments style solarized-dark, for example, matches the themes dark color scheme, while solarized-light matches light and solarized-dark256 works well with gray.

Otherwise, if you want to use a JavaScript highlighter like highlight.js, the necessary JavaScript can be placed inside static/ and get included by providing a footer.html as described above.

Installation

Same as with any other theme:

$ git clone https://github.com/bake/solar-theme-hugo.git themes/solar-theme-hugo
$ hugo server --theme solar-theme-hugo
...

License

GPLv2 or higher