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Awesome (Gem-Packaged) Jekyll Themes

A collection of awesome (gem-packaged) Jekyll themes

ANNOUNCEMENT: Looking for awesome "classic" Jekyll themes? See the Dr. Jekyll's Themes directory / listing.

Contributions welcome. Anything missing? Send in a pull request. Thanks.

Documentation

Note: Starting with Jekyll 3.2+ Themes can get packaged up into Ruby gems.

See the (Gem-Packaged) Themes Page @ Jekyll Docs ».

Intro / Disclaimer

Gem-Packaged Themes vs. "Classic" Themes

From the "Unofficial" Jekyll F.A.Q.:

Q: How can I get started with gem-packaged themes? / Do I need to package my theme into a gem?

Gem-packaged themes are just an advanced option and in addition they are in development for (real world) experiments (e.g. think v0.1 as stated by the Ben Balter - the lead designer / manager / dev at GitHub).

Thus, to conclude do NOT read too much into the official themes docs e.g. as the only or "right" way to design a theme. Just (continue to) use "classic" themes - there are hundreds to learn from and once you have mastered "classic" themes you can "graduate" to the master class, that is, using gem-packaged themes.

Again gem-packaged themes are wonderful and welcome -- remember, however, the party is just getting started:

henrythemes/hello-minima-theme

For some "classic" starter themes you may try some of Henry's themes:

For the "state-of-the-art" what a "classic" theme can do - see the incredible beautiful and extremely well-documented (incl. a getting started guide and much much more) Minimal Mistakes (MM) theme by Michael Rose. Happy Jekylling.

Official Themes

Minima ★112 (gem: minima, github: jekyll/minima) by Joel Glovier, Ben Balter, Parker Moore et al -- a one-size-fits-all theme for writers

Swiss ★35 (gem: jekyll-swiss, github: broccolini/swiss) by Diana Mounter -- a bold typographic theme inspired by Swiss design

Athena ★18 (gem: jekyll-athena, github: broccolini/athena) by Diana Mounter -- a simple and elegant theme

More Themes

Minimal Mistakes ★1316 (gem: minimal-mistakes-jekyll, github: mmistakes/minimal-mistakes) by Michael Rose -- a flexible two-column theme

Pixyll ★1515 (github: johno/pixyll) by John Otander -- a simple, beautiful Jekyll theme that's mobile first.

Hydejack ★215 (demo: https://hydejack.com, gem: jekyll-theme-hydejack, github: qwtel/hydejack) by Florian Klampfer -- "Best Jekyll Theme by a Mile". Blog, portfolio, and resume.

Forty ★139 (gem: forty_jekyll_theme, github: andrewbanchich/forty-jekyll-theme) by Andrew Banchich -- A Jekyll version of the "Forty" theme by HTML5 UP.

Leonids ★136 (gem: leonids, github: renyuanz/leonids) by Renyuan Zou -- a simple and clean two columns theme

Neo-HPSTR ★74 (gem: neo-hpstr-jekyll-theme, github: aron-bordin/neo-hpstr-jekyll-theme) by Aron Bordin -- a responsive and modern blog template.

jekyll-theme-console ★66 (gem: jekyll-theme-console, github: b2a3e8/jekyll-theme-console) by b2a3e8 -- a jekyll theme inspired by linux consoles for hackers, developers and script kiddies.

jekyll-theme-yat ★78 (gem: jekyll-theme-yat, github: jeffreytse/jekyll-theme-yat) by jeffreytse -- 🎨 Yet another theme for elegant writers with modern flat style and night mode.

Alembic ★29 (gem: alembic-jekyll-theme, github: daviddarnes/alembic) by David Darnes -- a boilerplate theme

Garth ★7 (gem: garth-jekyll-theme, github: daviddarnes/garth-jekyll-theme) by David Darnes -- a stupidly simple theme

whiteglass ★5 (gem: jekyll-whiteglass, github: yous/whiteglass) by Chayoung You -- Minimal, responsive Jekyll theme for hackers.

Retlab ★4 (gem: retlab, github: benbalter/retlab) by Ben Balter -- a minimalist theme for your personal site

Overkyll ★4 (gem: overkyll-jekyll-theme, github: bertrandkeller/overkyll-jekyll-theme) by Bertrand Keller -- a simple starter theme with an ITCSS sass files organisation, a flexbox grid and modular typography

Ace ★4 (gem: ace-theme, github: aliou/ace) by Aliou Diallo

Starving Artist ★1 (gem: starving-artist, github: chrisanthropic/starving-artist-jekyll-theme) by Chris Tarwater -- a mobile friendly portfolio theme.

Writers Zone ★1 (gem: writers-zone, github: StartZeroGnu/writers-zone) by StartZeroGnu -- theme based on the official minima" theme " with some plugins installed.

Simple Texture ★1 (gem: jekyll-theme-simple-texture, github: yizeng/jekyll-theme-simple-texture) by Yi Zeng -- a responsive simple texture styled Jekyll theme.

Help Center Theme ★2 (gem: jekyll-help-center-theme, github: gustavoquinalha/jekyll-help-center-theme by Gustavo Quinalha -- Simple and responsive Jekyll theme for help center.

Cocoon ★1 github: pro-panda/cocoon by Rahul Bothra -- Minimal, single paged blog theme

jekyll-rtd-theme ★2 (gem: jekyll-rtd-theme, github: rundocs/jekyll-rtd-theme by RunDcs --full featured from the official ReadtheDocs's theme

Hamilton ★8 (gem: jekyll-theme-hamilton, github: jekyll-theme-hamilton) by Shangzhi Huang -- A minimal and beautiful Jekyll theme best for writing and note-taking

Scaffold ★6 (gem: jekyll-theme-scaffold, github: jekyll-theme-scaffold) by Songzi Vong -- A minimalist yet powerful Jekyll theme for bloggers

Moonwalk ★23 (gem: moonwalk, github: moonwalk) by Abhinav Saxena -- A fast and minimal Jekyll blog theme with clean dark mode

brutalist-blog ★2 (github: andrewhwanpark/brutalist-blog) by Andrew Park -- a no frills, fully-responsive, hyper-minimalistic dark/light theme

GitHub Pages

Use the theme property in your _config.yml to specify a theme that comes packaged with GitHub Pages. See pages.github.com/themes for valid values. Use the remote_theme property to specify any public, gem-packaged theme on GitHub.

See the docs for adding a Jekyll theme to your GitHub Pages site for more information.

Find More

Search BestGems.org for jekyll+theme to find more themes.