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Ink Free

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Updated: 15 May 2025
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Crisp, minimal personal website and blog theme Hugo, designed for a collaborative, open-source, privacy conscious blog.

Overview:

Ink-Free is a minimal personal website and blog theme for Hugo. It is designed for a collaborative, open-source, and privacy-conscious blog. This theme is a fork of the original Hugo-ink theme with custom adjustments and additional features. Ink-Free focuses on privacy by removing references to external CDNs and analytics code. It also adds features such as a back button, table of contents, word count, tags, and approximate read time. Additionally, it includes bug fixes and allows for in-line images and image titles.

Features:

  • Back button: Added a back button to all posts.
  • Table of Contents: Included a table of contents that can be controlled by a variable in all posts.
  • Word count, tags, and approximate read time: Provided an overview of the word count, tags, and estimated read time for each post.
  • Random footer messages: Added random, humorous messages at the end of each post.
  • “Edit this on GitHub” button: Included a button to directly edit the content on GitHub.
  • In-line image rendering: Added support for the inline rendering of images, including SVGs.
  • CSS modifications: Made CSS modifications to order all tags inline, change the background color for syntax highlighting, and add classes for the back button.

Installation:

To install the Ink-Free theme, follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to your Hugo site’s root directory in your terminal.
  2. Run the following command:
cd your-hugo-site-directory
  1. For more detailed information, refer to the official setup guide for Hugo.

Summary:

Ink-Free is a minimal personal website and blog theme for Hugo. It is designed for privacy-conscious bloggers and includes features such as a back button, table of contents, word count, tags, and approximate read time. The theme removes references to external CDNs and analytics code to prioritize privacy. Ink-Free also allows for in-line image rendering and includes bug fixes and CSS modifications.