Dark Simplicity is a minimalist dark-color Hugo theme that renders static blogs and personal sites from Hugo content files, with a PostCSS-driven styling pipeline and built-in support for menus, pagination, tags, Google Analytics, and Disqus.
What is Dark Simplicity?
Dark Simplicity is a minimalist oriented theme with a dark color scheme for the Hugo static site generator. It takes Hugo content (posts, pages, and tag taxonomies) as input and produces a static website with a dark, clean layout. The theme is built using PostCSS plugins (Font Magician and CSSNano) along with the Lost Grid system, and it ships with the original gulp config and CSS files so you can adjust the palette. As of the repository metadata, the theme has 12 stars.
Key Features
- PostCSS CSS generation — Uses Font Magician to auto-import web fonts and CSSNano to minify the output; the gulp build file and source CSS variables are included for customization.
- Responsive font sizing — Integrates Rusksack to generate fluid font sizes that scale with the viewport.
- Hugo menus — Supports both page-level
menu = "top"parameters and config.toml menu entries to build site navigation. - Post pagination — Paginates the posts list at five posts per page, using Hugo's built-in pagination.
- Tag taxonomy — Includes support for organizing content with tags as the taxonomy type.
- Configurable site parameters — Accepts
copyright(supports safeHtml; defaults to © CurrentYear. All rights reserved),descriptionfor a browser-title tagline,google_analytics_id,disqus_shortname, andmainSectionsto control which sections appear in RSS and the index. - Google Analytics and Disqus — Add your analytics ID or Disqus shortname directly in config.toml to enable tracking and comments.
- Social and schema metadata — Provides initial support for schema.org structured data and Facebook/Open Graph site metadata tags.
Who is it for?
Dark Simplicity fits bloggers who want a dark, minimalist Hugo site with pagination and tag categories. It's also suited to developers who want a theme they can restyle by editing PostCSS variables and the gulp build configuration, and to site owners who need Google Analytics and Disqus comment integration without a plugin.
What can you do with Dark Simplicity?
- Bloggers: publish posts in Hugo content directories; the theme automatically paginates at five posts per page and exposes a tag taxonomy for browsing topics.
- Developers: rebuild the CSS with gulp, change the dark color palette via PostCSS variables, and swap Google Fonts through Font Magician settings.
- Site owners: enable Google Analytics and Disqus by setting IDs in config.toml, and control homepage/RSS content with the
mainSectionsparameter. - Documentation-driven projects: use the included exampleSite/config.toml as a starting point for configuring the theme's menu, description, and section settings.
