Overview
Pico is a minimalist, readable, responsive, light, and beautiful theme inspired by Medium and The New York Times. It aims to provide the best experience for readers with its awesome design. Pico can be configured as a single page or as a full-featured site with multiple sections. It is multilingual, responsive, and includes a light and dark theme.
Features
- Multilingual support for side-by-side content in different language versions
- Syntax highlighting with the “one dark” theme
- Styled Markdown throughout, including post titles
- Customizable pages with widgets or TailwindCSS
- Straightforward customization via config.toml
- Projects and Blog sections
- Light CSS bundle that is purged and minified thanks to PostCSS
- Light and Dark theme options
- Developer-friendly with included Sass files for instant compiling to CSS using Hugo Pipes and PostCSS
Installation
- Make sure you have the extended version of Hugo installed (latest version recommended)
- Install the following NPM packages:
- postcss-cli
- postcss-import
- autoprefixer
- @fullhuman/postcss-purgecss
- tailwindcss (Learn how to install and use npm here)
- Get the Pico theme by (removed url)
- Once your website is running, you can start editing content files.
Summary
Pico is a minimalist and beautiful theme for creating responsive websites or single-page configurations. It offers multilingual support, syntax highlighting, customizable pages, and a light and dark theme option. Developers will appreciate the included Sass files for easy customization. The installation process requires the extended version of Hugo and several NPM packages. Overall, Pico provides a great reading experience with its clean design inspired by popular publications.