About
Swiss is a bold Jekyll theme inspired by Swiss design and the works of Massimo Vignelli. This theme lends itself well to sites heavy on written content.
Features:
- Mobile-first design ensures this theme performs fastest on mobile while scaling elegantly to desktop-size screens.
- Designed for blogs and sites heavy on written content, with bold typography styles, homepage summaries, and previous/next snippets.
- Supports a wide range of HTML elements and markdown.
- Flexible styles that can be reused for customization without adding additional CSS.
- Dynamically generated navigation links. See docs below for adding pages with specific post category for-loops.
Themes
This theme comes in eight different color variations. The default is set to the black
theme. To change the theme color, add theme_color:
to your config.yml
file with the color you wish to use. Example: theme_color: blue
.
Config setting | Thumbnail |
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theme_color: black |
|
theme_color: red |
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theme_color: white |
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theme_color: gray |
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theme_color: blue |
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theme_color: magenta |
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theme_color: orange |
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theme_color: yellow |
Installation
Add this line to your Jekyll site’s Gemfile:
gem "jekyll-swiss"
And add this line to your Jekyll site config.yml
:
theme: jekyll-swiss
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install jekyll-swiss