Minimo is a minimalist Hugo theme for building fast, content-focused static websites, distributed as open source on GitHub. This theme takes your Hugo site's content and configuration and renders a clean, readable site with support for multiple authors and configurable widgets.
What is Minimo?
Minimo is a minimalist theme for Hugo, the static site generator, created by MunifTanjim. The theme takes your Hugo site content and outputs a static website with a clean, content-first layout. It includes documentation for installation, authors, widgets, updating, and configuration, all hosted at minimo.netlify.com. Minimo is licensed under the MIT License.
Key Features
- Minimalist design — The theme prioritizes typography and content, with a simple visual hierarchy.
- Widget configuration — Users can set up and customize widgets using the Widgets Documentation, controlling extra content around the site.
- Multiple authors — The Authors Setup Guide explains how to configure one or more authors and attribute posts correctly.
- Simple installation — A dedicated Installation Guide walks through adding Minimo to a Hugo site and matching the config.toml format.
- Update support — The Updating Guide and changelog help users migrate to the latest version and adjust configuration settings.
- MIT License — The theme is free to use and modify, and includes Feather icons by Cole Bemis under the same MIT license.
Who is it for?
- Hugo bloggers who want a minimal theme to get a personal site online without heavy customization.
- Developers needing a straightforward Hugo theme that can serve as a base for their own projects.
- Small publishing teams that require multiple author profiles and widget-based sidebars, as documented in the theme's guides.
What can you do with Minimo?
- Personal bloggers: launch a blog using the installation guide and configure author details for posts.
- Site owners: keep the theme up to date by following the updating workflow and checking config.toml changes.
- Theme customizers: modify the MIT-licensed source code and swap out Feather icons to match your own design.
