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nielsenramon/chalk

Chalk is a high quality, completely customizable, performant and 100% free Jekyll blog theme. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/nielsenramon/chalk · homepage · CSS · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

23/100

  • Activity 0
  • Release rhythm 8
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 3690
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 876
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1280 stars · 429 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Chalk is a free, customizable, and performant Jekyll blog theme written with SCSS and Liquid templates. It ships with dark/light modes, tag filtering, SEO and sitemap support, and a publish script for deploying to GitHub Pages.

Use cases

  • set up a personal blog with Jekyll
  • find a customizable Jekyll theme for GitHub Pages
  • create a developer blog with dark mode and code highlighting
  • start a static site blog with SEO and RSS built in
  • deploy a Jekyll blog to GitHub Pages with a publish script
  • add tag filtering and Disqus comments to a Jekyll blog

When to choose

  • you want a polished, ready-made Jekyll blog theme with minimal setup
  • you host on GitHub Pages and want an automated gh-pages deploy flow
  • you need dark/light theming, tag navigation, and SEO out of the box

When to avoid

  • you need a theme compatible with GitHub Pages' native Jekyll build (Chalk uses unsupported plugins)
  • you are not using Jekyll or a Ruby-based static site workflow
  • you need a highly dynamic site with server-side rendering or a CMS backend

Facets

plugin · maturity maintenance

static-site-generator templating css-framework theme web-development web-design cms frontend documentation ruby jekyll-theme blog-template scss dark-mode seo-optimized disqus google-analytics github-pages-deployment personal-blog web-server nodejs github-pages

3 sources

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
nielsenramon/chalkmain23

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="nielsenramon/chalk")

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