# nielsenramon/chalk

Chalk is a high quality, completely customizable, performant and 100% free Jekyll blog theme.

Repository: https://github.com/nielsenramon/chalk
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/nielsenramon-chalk
Homepage: http://chalk.nielsenramon.com
Language: CSS
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: jekyll, blog, template, scss, simple, customizable, chalk, theme, jekyll-theme, jekyll-blog, themes, circleci, github-pages
Last push: 2024-04-09T14:57:31+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3690, "days_push": 876, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1280, forks 429 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:13.783520+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: maintenance
- function: static-site-generator, templating, css-framework, theme
- domain: web-development, web-design, cms, frontend, documentation
- platform: ruby
- tags: jekyll-theme, blog-template, scss, dark-mode, seo-optimized, disqus, google-analytics, github-pages-deployment, personal-blog, web-server, nodejs, github-pages

## Member repositories
- nielsenramon/chalk (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:13.783520+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T05:02:38.394921+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/nielsenramon/chalk (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:13.783520+00:00, sha cbbfe1f6d2b6)
  - homepage: http://chalk.nielsenramon.com (fetched 2026-08-29T12:13:12.180203+00:00, sha ac4844fe534c)
  - site_page: http://chalk.nielsenramon.com/about (fetched 2026-08-29T12:13:12.182647+00:00, sha b9878c555d5b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.