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Show HN: A clean and minimalist theme for Jekyll
- Thorentis 7y agoPort to Hugo? Many people over there love minimalist themes too. I personally think Hugo will overtake Jekyll in terms of popularity for static site generation. But I love the theme, well done!
- huangyz0918 7y agoThank you! I'll post to Hugo and Hexo in the next step.
- samdung 7y agoFound these: https://themes.gohugo.io/hugo-theme-yinyang/ https://themes.gohugo.io/hugo-theme-yinyang/ https://blog.joway.io https://blog.joway.io
- huangyz0918 7y agoYeah, moving is theme inspired by YinYang. And I think it needs a back button in posts. Lol
- sandGorgon 7y agoand here I'm betting on Gatsbyjs and the React ecosystem to win out !
- huangyz0918 7y agoI'm thinking about how to export a theme to multiple platforms? Are there any tools for that?
- sandGorgon 7y agoNot sure if that's doable. Hugo uses go templates. Gatsbyjs uses react templates.
- AlchemistCamp 7y ago> I personally think Hugo will overtake Jekyll in terms of popularity for static site generation. When do you estimate that will happen and why do you think it will?
- mattbgates 7y agoAs a minimalist, this theme is actually gorgeous for someone looking to have a simple blog or portfolio. Great job.
- huangyz0918 7y agoThank you, I love minimalist theme. And I believe we should focus more on the posts and good writing experience than the layouts. ;)
- Tepix 7y agoIt's minimalist, but it sure is not gorgeous in my opinion.
- huangyz0918 7y agoHaha, I think the gorgeous is different from a minimalist's.
- mattbgates 7y agoWell, as a guy who has OCD... the "white space" is like heaven for me. I don't like clutter so white space reminds me of peace and calm.
- violett 7y agoBeing mainly focused on writing, you need to take another look at the typographical style of the theme. Longer posts are hard to read.
- huangyz0918 7y agoWill do, thanks for your suggestion!
- geowwy 7y agoIt's not that bad IMO
- ninefoxgambit 7y agoits pretty bad. Its all in bold.
- blowski 7y agoPerhaps varying the lengths of the paragraphs will make it look much better, without actually changing the design.
- huangyz0918 7y agoI think this is something the author of the article should consider, not the author of the theme. Reasonable interspersed images and segments will make the article look more beautiful.
- rayshan 7y ago很整洁！Really like it! What's the thinking behind the Bitter font? I thought it was monospaced for a minute, which would've been cool. May I recommend spacing out the lines? The usual rule of thumb is 1.5x spacing vs. line height. More examples with photos and figures in various sizes would help users who are picking out the theme. I also went for something minimal for my blog. Here's a comparable page: https://shan.io/writing/ https://shan.io/writing/
- huangyz0918 7y agoVery practical advice! This theme is still in progress and I think your suggestions about the spacing and the line height really did help.
- mbar84 7y agoI absolutely adore slab serif and Bitter in particular. It's so clear and punchy. It's good on display, on print and on kindle and it's free too. The only downside I think is that people are sometimes distracted because they're not quite used to and surprised by something that is so ... readable!
- omeid2 7y agoSomeone pretty please port this to Gatsby.
- huangyz0918 7y agoYou mean Gatsby.js?
- omeid2 7y agoYes. https://www.gatsbyjs.org/ https://www.gatsbyjs.org/
- huangyz0918 7y agoCool, let me have a look and see if possible. Thank you.
- suzil 7y agoSuper nice! Looks similar to whiteglass: https://github.com/yous/whiteglass https://github.com/yous/whiteglass
- huangyz0918 7y agoLol, it looks like the author like Bitter too.
- snypox 7y agoI don’t have much experience with Ruby but I’m amazed looking at the readme of how easy it is to get Jekyll going.
- huangyz0918 7y agoYes, you don't need many knowledge about ruby to build a Jekyll Blog. There are many blog generator out there and you can have look (e.g, Hugo, Hexo).
- twodave 7y agoI moved 4 of my business and family websites to jekyll this summer, the process isn't too terrible actually[1], especially if you're okay hosting on Github. [1]: https://dsheldon.com/technology/github%20pages/jekyll/2019/06/09/getting-started-with-github-pages-and-jekyll.html https://dsheldon.com/technology/github%20pages/jekyll/2019/0...
- sscarduzio 7y agois the theme in GitHub? BTW your GitHub link is broken!
- twodave 7y agoThanks for catching that. I had to change my username recently :) The theme is in GitHub here: https://github.com/thelehhman/plainwhite-jekyll https://github.com/thelehhman/plainwhite-jekyll
- AlchemistCamp 7y agoRuby is exceptionally beginner friendly
- louismerlin 7y agoVery nice ! I love the layout. I created a minimalist css microframework a few months back : https://concrete.style https://concrete.style
- huangyz0918 7y agoWow, it looks so cool, let me have a try :)
- louismerlin 7y agoFYI, here is an (almost empty) blog using concrete.css : https://louismerlin.github.io/blissue https://louismerlin.github.io/blissue
- huangyz0918 7y agoThanks
- lcrz 7y agoQuick bugreport: filled form fields have black text (Chrome MacOS) even in dark mode, making them unreadable.
- huangyz0918 7y ago+1
- louismerlin 7y agoThank you <3 This will be fixed asap Edit: Fixed
- enz 7y agoNice! If I had to use Jekyll, I think I'd use that theme. Actually, I already use a similar custom theme.
- huangyz0918 7y agoWow, that's cool, what theme you are using?
- enz 7y agoA theme I wrote with some Bootstrap 4. I am not a pro front-end developer/designer, but I guess it does the work for my personal blog! (https://www.ecalamia.com/static/css/style.css https://www.ecalamia.com/static/css/style.css)
- huangyz0918 7y agoCool! Thanks for sharing.
- MatekCopatek 7y agoNice, these are always welcome. A tiny remark - because post dates in the listing on the home page have different lengths (Mar is longer than Apr), titles to their right aren't correctly aligned.
- huangyz0918 7y agoThanks for your feedback! That is a great found, will fix soon.
- RobGav 7y agoNice theme, move it to Publii cms too.
- keehun 7y agoGood work! Does anyone have any other favorite minimalist themes for Hugo, Jekyll, Wordpress, Ghost, etc (or just HTML/CSS)?
- huangyz0918 7y agoThere is a Hugo theme looks very like moving: https://github.com/joway/hugo-theme-yinyang https://github.com/joway/hugo-theme-yinyang.
- louismerlin 7y ago[I already commented this in this post] Here is my minimalist css microframework : https://concrete.style https://concrete.style
- jboynyc 7y agoThere was a discussion only recently about "no-nonsense" themes for Jekyll et al.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20266932 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20266932 Note that people's definitions of what constitutes a minimalist/no-nonsense theme seem to differ, with some emphasizing appearance, others dependencies and elegance of the generated code.
- huangyz0918 7y agoI hope that users can realize that it is not the layout and interface of a blog that can enrich it, but the continuous sharing and high-quality content that never stops updating. That is what minimalist/no-nonsense, we should pay attention to the nature of things and keep moving.
- bruncun 7y agoMay I suggest adding Turbolinks? Performance doesn't get more minimal. :) https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks
- huangyz0918 7y agoCool thing! But I'm not sure how to add that into a Jekyll theme. All I need to do is add Turbolinks in `Gemfile` and `bundle install`, right?
- bruncun 7y agoYou will also have to require Turbolinks in your JavaScript manifest (application.js). See "Installation using Ruby on Rails" in the docs.
- oblio 7y agoThat SVG (https://github.com/huangyz0918/moving/blob/master/github/banner2.svg https://github.com/huangyz0918/moving/blob/master/github/ban...) is huge! 3MB - maybe you can shrink it somehow ;)
- huangyz0918 7y agoOoops, thanks for reminding, I'll do it right now.
- Uehreka 7y agoThank you, thank you, thank you for actually having screenshots of your theme. I can’t tell you how often I’ve seen themes or color schemes on GitHub (for a blogging platform, for a code editor, for some random plugin supporting app) that have absolutely no screenshots. I have no idea why someone would put time and effort into developing a theme/color scheme (or even porting one from another app/context) and then not post screenshots, but it’s very common.
- huangyz0918 7y agoAgreed, I think for a developer, he may think a demo link is better and enough. But sometimes people just feel tired to open so many links.
- onra87 7y agoSpecially when in some corporate places GitHub is not blocked by the proxy while the demo is... :)
- Advaith 7y ago> I love how thi +1, also like how clean this theme is. Worships whitespace too.
- huangyz0918 7y agoThey are real minimalists, Lol.
- bradley_taunt 7y agoAlways love seeing new Jekyll themes focused on content and readability. I released a minimal CSS "framework" not too long ago based on that concept as well (although not Jekyll based) - https://bradleytaunt.com/typesafe-css/ https://bradleytaunt.com/typesafe-css/
- huangyz0918 7y agoThat is cool, thanks for sharing.
- packetlost 7y agoThanks for sharing that! I've been toying with the idea of building a minimalist Hugo template based on this guy's site: https://jrl.ninja/etc/1/ https://jrl.ninja/etc/1/ I might include typesafe-css into it as well, if I ever get to it
- bradley_taunt 7y agoThat was the original "framework" that inspired mine :) Please do let me know if you build out a Hugo theme (even just based on the 58 and not mine)
- sciurus 7y agoThis looks nice! On https://www.polibyte.com/ https://www.polibyte.com/ I'm happily using https://github.com/johno/pixyll https://github.com/johno/pixyll which has a similar aesthetic.
- wj 7y agoAnyone have a favorite business blog theme for Jekyll? Specifically for a SaaS business blog.