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Hugo Theme Monochrome

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Updated: 27 Nov 2024
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Monochrome is a fast, clean and responsive hugo theme

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Overview

The Monochrome theme is a clean and lightweight theme for Hugo websites. It features a clean UI design with a small file size, making it fast and efficient. The theme is self-contained and does not require additional dependencies to set up or edit. It adapts to different screen sizes and offers support for a light or dark mode. Monochrome also includes multiple built-in layouts, nested navbar, multilingual mode, syntax highlighting, site search with real-time matches highlighting, SEO-friendly features, support for mathematical notation, and useful shortcodes.

Features

  • Clean UI with small resources: Monochrome has a clean UI design with a gzipped bundled CSS file size of around 5KB.
  • Self-Contained: Monochrome does not require webpack, nodejs, or any other dependencies to set up or edit, it only needs Hugo.
  • Responsive layout: The theme seamlessly adapts to different screen sizes, providing a consistent experience from desktop to mobile.
  • Support light/dark mode: Monochrome offers a low-light UI option, allowing users to switch between light and dark modes.
  • Multiple layouts built-in: Monochrome now supports 6 different layouts, providing flexibility in design choices.
  • Nested navbar and Multilingual mode: The theme makes good use of Hugo’s well-designed structure, enabling nested navigation and multilingual support.
  • Syntax Highlighting (with copy feature): Monochrome integrates both server-side (Chroma, Hugo built-in) and client-side (Prism.js) solutions for syntax highlighting, offering support for a wide range of programming languages. The copy feature allows users to easily copy code snippets.
  • Site Search with real-time matches highlight: The theme includes a site search functionality powered by Fuse.js, providing real-time search results and highlighting matched text.
  • SEO-friendly: Monochrome allows easy customization of author information, description, keywords, open graph, and twitter card metadata, ensuring the website is optimized for search engines.
  • Support mathematical notation: Monochrome leverages MathJax to support mathematical notation, making it suitable for websites that require mathematical formulas or equations.
  • Useful shortcodes: Monochrome provides useful shortcodes to enhance the website’s functionality and design.

Installation

To install the Monochrome theme, follow these steps:

  1. Download the latest release of the theme from the GitHub repository.

  2. Extract the downloaded file and copy the theme folder to the themes directory of your Hugo website.

  3. Configure the theme in your Hugo site’s config.toml file by adding the following lines:

    theme = "monochrome"

  4. Customize the theme by editing the various configuration options available in the config.toml file.

  5. Build your Hugo website using the hugo command.

  6. Your website is now using the Monochrome theme.

Summary

The Monochrome theme is a lightweight and clean theme for Hugo websites. It offers a range of features including a clean UI, responsive layout, support for light/dark mode, multiple layouts, nested navbar and multilingual mode, syntax highlighting, site search, SEO-friendly options, support for mathematical notation, and useful shortcodes. The theme is easy to install and configure, making it a great choice for users looking for a minimalist and efficient theme for their Hugo websites.