Texture

Texture is a configurable Jekyll theme for simply beautiful blogs, built by Samarsault and available under the MIT license.

What is Texture?

Texture is a Jekyll theme designed for blogs, distributed both as a remote theme for GitHub Pages and as a Ruby gem. It takes site configuration from the _config.yml file — including title, tagline, date format, social links, and color style — and produces a static blog site with Home, Page, and Post layouts. The theme is maintained by Samarsault (GitHub user thelehhman) and is open source under the MIT License.

Key Features

• Configurable styling — Six built-in color styles (yellow, red, black, blue, green, purple) are selected with a style property under the texture key.
• Social links — Built-in support for Twitter, GitHub, and LinkedIn URLs via the social_links config.
• Texture Picker — A showPicker flag toggles an on-screen texture selector for experimenting with styles during development; set to false in production.
• Disqus comments — Comments on posts are enabled by setting a disqus_shortname in the theme config.
• Google Analytics — An analytics_id field inserts Google Analytics tracking.
• Excerpts and navigation — show_excerpts: true displays post excerpts, while showNav plus a navigation list builds a custom navbar with titles and URLs.
• GitHub Pages ready — Install by adding remote_theme: samarsault/texture to _config.yml, no gem build required.

Who is it for?

• Bloggers — Write posts in Markdown and get a clean, minimal blog with customizable colors and social links.
• Developers — Use it as a starting point for a personal site or portfolio, with Home, Page, and Post layouts and full control via _config.yml.
• GitHub Pages users — Deploy quickly by pointing remote_theme at the repository; no local Jekyll setup needed.
• Theme developers — Fork the repository and run bundle exec jekyll serve to develop and test customizations.

What can you do with Texture?

• Personal blogs — Set a title, tagline, and date format, then publish posts; enable excerpts for a magazine-style listing.
• Portfolio pages — Use the Page layout to create a static About or My Work page and link it in the navbar via the navigation config.
• Client or project sites — Add Disqus for comments and Google Analytics for traffic measurement without writing custom code.