The Gruvbox Hugo Theme is a retro-looking, highly customizable Hugo theme inspired by the popular gruvbox color palette. It's designed to build secure, fast, and SEO-ready websites, offering both light and dark color schemes with high-contrast, eye-pleasing pastel colors.
Key features include:
- Code Highlighting: Utilizes Prism for flexible and customizable code highlighting, supporting various languages and plugins. It dynamically switches between
gruvbox-darkandgruvbox-lightthemes based on the user's color mode preference. - Full-Text Search: Integrates FlexSearch for efficient and fast full-text search capabilities across your website content.
- JSON Resume Display: Allows users to display their CVs using structured JSON Resume data, making it ideal for personal portfolio sites.
- Image Optimization: Automatically optimizes images by creating resized versions in next-gen formats like WebP and implementing lazy loading, enhancing website performance and user experience.
- Dynamic Color Choices: Offers configurable theme colors (gray, red, green, yellow, blue, purple, aqua, orange) and contrast levels (soft, medium, hard) to match personal preferences.
- Extensibility: Designed for easy extension through custom HTML partials and a PostCSS pipeline, enabling developers to add features like KaTeX support or custom CSS.
- SEO-Ready: Includes default robots meta values for optimal search engine indexing, with options to override for specific pages.
- Social Share Links: Configurable social sharing options using Simple Icons or Tabler Icons, supporting dynamic URL and title placeholders.
The theme emphasizes a responsive, mobile-first design and uses beautiful SVG icons from Tabler Icons. Installation involves Hugo modules and NPM dependencies, making it a modern and developer-friendly choice for building content-rich websites.
