Grey Book
Hugo Theme Example Site
About This Theme
A simple, blog focused, theme for the sophisticated reader and blogger with ideas above their station.
Features:
- Archive
- Tags
- Emacs Org Mode friendly
- Featured Images in post summary
- Light & Dark modes
- A long, warm, rich aftertaste with hints of an autumn bonfire, like a good whisky
The Light/Dark themes are automatic and will be selected on the basis of the user’s system and browser settings, there is no manual selection option. All images will be converted to WebP (except for org-mode posts, see changelog).
The code for this theme, and instructions, are available at codeberg.org/henryleach/grey-book .
This website is the example site contained in the exampleSite folder, hosted on statichost.eu
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About Hugo
Written in Go, Hugo is an open source static site generator available under the Apache Licence 2.0. Hugo supports TOML, YAML and JSON data file types, Markdown, Org-Mode and HTML content files and uses shortcodes to add rich content. Other notable features are taxonomies, multilingual mode, image processing, custom output formats, HTML/CSS/JS minification and support for Sass SCSS workflows.
Hugo makes use of a variety of open source projects including:
- https://github.com/yuin/goldmark
- https://github.com/alecthomas/chroma
- https://github.com/muesli/smartcrop
- https://github.com/spf13/cobra
- https://github.com/spf13/viper
Hugo is ideal for blogs, corporate websites, creative portfolios, online magazines, single page applications or even a website with thousands of pages.
Hugo is for people who want to hand code their own website without worrying about setting up complicated runtimes, dependencies and databases.
Websites built with Hugo are extremely fast, secure and can be deployed anywhere including, AWS, GitHub Pages, Heroku, Netlify and any other hosting provider.
Learn more and contribute to Hugo on GitHub .