Themes I’ve Liked

Requirements:

• Apache, MIT, or similar well-known permissive license
• Minimal dependencies; only use extra projects if they perform a needed function
• Good doc and developer responsiveness to intelligent questions
• Reasonably widely used (so more likely to be supported)

Jekyll

Already Used	Theme Listings
Minimal Mistakes (MIT): Excellent :sparkles: responsive dev	GH Pages Themes
y7kim/agency-jekyll-theme (Apache): onepager with simple timeline	Planet Jekyll
gdg-managua/jekyll-mdl Simple MDL for Jekyll
Google MDL (Apache): used on whyIlovetheASF	:tiger:

• GitHub Pages Supported (CC0)
  • https://github.com/pages-themes/time-machine simple, funky, but narrow
  • https://pages-themes.github.io/leap-day/ nice navigation for single page theme
  • https://pages-themes.github.io/dinky/ static left column, right column scrolls - for super-small sites
• https://mmistakes.github.io/hpstr-jekyll-theme/theme-setup/ (MIT): HPSTR
• https://volny.github.io/creative-theme-jekyll/ (Apache): one page with lots of twiddle bootstrappy things, but long single page and lots of graphics
• https://github.com/streetturtle/jekyll-cv-crafter (MIT): nice one-page, MVC style CV builder
• http://jekyllthemes.org/themes/landing-page/ (Apache): basic one-page
• http://jekyllthemes.org/themes/feeling-responsive/ (MIT): many options
• http://jekyllthemes.org/themes/tufte-jekyll/ (MIT): as classic
• http://jekyllthemes.org/themes/jekyll-mdl/ (Apache): default is three chunks
• http://jekyllthemes.org/themes/personal/ (MIT): timeline stuff
• http://t413.com/SinglePaged/ (MIT): Nice single page look, good instructions, mixed fonts tho
• http://jekyllthemes.org/themes/mediator/ (MIT): basic Medium style
• http://jekyllthemes.org/themes/flex/ (MIT): smooth, grey nice typeface
• https://github.com/broccolini/swiss (MIT): Giant Swiss typefaces
• https://andrewbanchich.github.io/forty-jekyll-theme/elements.html (CC-A): Everything graphic, flat, lots of features

• https://github.com/benbalter/retlab (MIT): Simple listing site, subpages simple navbar. Use for ShaneSlides?

• https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-admin (MIT): Online Jekyll content editor
• https://www.siteleaf.com/ (freemium): Online hosted dev/edit/publish to gh-pages or S3

CSS Grids / Frameworks

• Bootstrap for when you want simple and boring
• Foundation the new normal, perhaps?

Slide Decks

• Remark.js (MIT): Allows writing pure markdown slides; what I use now
• Reveal.js (MIT): has slides.com editor (freemium)

Styles, Fonts, Colors, Images

Images

• Unsplash (CC0): are high quality slightly artsy photos, reasonable selection
• Pixabay (CC0): includes some vectors and videos too, plus “sponsored” listings, not as big/artsy as Unsplash but larger selection
• Pexels (CC0): nice UI, large library, re-uses photos from lots of other sites (has ads)

Font Pairings - Google

Google Fonts - widely available and good enough! link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Ubuntu+Mono"

• Bree+Serif - Open+Sans
• Bevan - Pontano+Sans
• Abril+Fatface - Average
• Istok+Web - Lora
• Pacifico - Arimo
• Nixie+One - Ledger
• Rancho - Gudea
• Lobster - Cabin
• Lobster - Arimo
• Playfair+Display - Fauna+One
• Bree+Serif - Lora
• Nixie+One - Libre+Baskerville
• Pacifico - Arimo
• Signika - Open+Sans
• Oswald - Droid+Sans
• Francois+One - Open+Sans
• Montserrat - Istok+Web
• Ovo - Muli
• monospace: Ubuntu+Mono