Hugo Theme Tania is a Hugo blog theme that transplants the clean, minimalist design of Tania Rascia's personal site into a fast static site generator with dark mode, floating footnotes, and search.
What is Hugo Theme Tania?
Hugo Theme Tania is a Hugo theme designed specifically for bloggers, created by WingLim. It takes Hugo's static site generator and applies a style sheet inspired by taniarascia.com, producing a responsive, mobile-friendly blog. Inputs are standard Hugo content files (Markdown), and outputs are static HTML sites. It requires Hugo version 0.78.0 or later; Hugo Extended is recommended when editing SCSS files or using the main branch.
Key Features
- Responsive and mobile-friendly — Layout adapts to screen sizes, with a clean reading experience on phones and tablets.
- Dark mode — Switches automatically based on system preferences or manually via a toggle; implementation based on hugo-theme-stack.
- Floating footnotes — Footnotes appear on the right side of the content, thanks to the hugo-prose approach.
- Search with category filter — Visitors can search posts and filter results by category.
- Archives layout — A dedicated articles page can be created with an archives layout for a chronological list of posts.
- MIT licensed — Free to use and modify for personal or commercial projects.
Who is it for?
- Bloggers — The theme is built specifically for personal blogs and content sites that want a clean, text-focused design without heavy JavaScript.
- Hugo users — Anyone already using Hugo who wants a simple, modern theme; installation uses a git submodule into the themes directory.
- Developers who want to customize — Because the source includes SCSS files, developers comfortable with Hugo Extended can adjust colors, typography, and layout.
What can you do with Hugo Theme Tania?
- Publish a personal blog — Write Markdown posts and organize them into categories; the theme generates an archive page and searchable index.
- Create a documentation or tutorial site — While aimed at blogs, the archives layout and search make it usable for structured content collections.
- Experiment with dark mode design — The automatic and manual dark mode switches provide a model that other Hugo themes can reference.
How does Hugo Theme Tania work?
The installation is based on git: add the theme as a submodule in your site's themes folder, create an articles page with the archives layout, and adjust site config following exampleSite/config.yaml. After that, Hugo builds static pages from your Markdown content. A live example is deployed at hugo-tania.netlify.app.
FAQ
What Hugo version do I need?
Hugo 0.78.0 or higher is required. For editing SCSS files or using the latest main branch changes, Hugo Extended is recommended.
Is Hugo Theme Tania free?
Yes, it is released under the MIT license, so you can use it freely in personal and commercial projects.
Does the theme support search?
Yes, it includes a search feature with a category filter, letting visitors find posts by keyword and narrow results by category.
Can I change the colors and fonts?
Yes. The theme uses SCSS, so with Hugo Extended you can edit the source files to adjust the styling.
