A minimal, monospaced blogging theme for Hugo that respects your privacy and is easy on your bandwidth. A demo can be found at https://smol-demo.morph.sh.
smol is based on Blank created by Vimux.
- No JavaScript
- No Google spyware or tracking of any kind
- No other external dependencies, embedded fonts or comment sections
- Dark mode support (depending on your OS's setting)
In your Hugo site themes directory, run:
git clone https://github.com/colorchestra/smol
Next, open config.toml in the base of the Hugo site and ensure the theme option is set to smol.
theme = "smol"
Lastly, add the following lines to your config.toml to set site parameters and make use of all the menu entries in the header and footer sections if you need them.
# Parameters
[params]
subtitle = "Your blog subtitle goes here!"
dateFmt = "02.01.2006 15:04"
# Header
[menu]
[[menu.main]]
identifier = "posts"
name = "Posts"
url = "/posts/"
weight = 1
[[menu.main]]
identifier = "categories"
name = "Categories"
url = "/categories/"
weight = 2
[[menu.main]]
identifier = "tags"
name = "Tags"
url = "/tags/"
weight = 3
# Footer
[[menu.footer]]
name = "Github"
url = "https://github.com/example"
weight = 1
[[menu.footer]]
name = "Mastodon"
url = "https://example.com/@user"
weight = 2
[[menu.footer]]
name = "Imprint"
url = "/imprint"
weight = 3
For more information read the official quick start guide of Hugo.
Add copyright = "Your text here" - in the config.toml to change the copyright notice in the footer.
You can add captions to images (technically using <figcaption> HTML tags) by adding titles, like so: 
Have you found a bug or got an idea for a new feature? Feel free to use the issue tracker to let me know. Or make directly a pull request.
This theme is released under the MIT license.