# pages-themes/minimal

Minimal is a Jekyll theme for GitHub Pages

Repository: https://github.com/pages-themes/minimal
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/pages-themes-minimal
Homepage: https://pages-themes.github.io/minimal/
Language: SCSS
License: CC0-1.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: jekyll, github-pages, jekyll-theme
Last push: 2024-08-20T09:32:12+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": 3618, "days_push": 743, "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 1809, forks 6399 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:39.402175+00:00)

## What it is
Minimal is a Jekyll theme designed for GitHub Pages sites, distributed as a Ruby gem and usable via jekyll-remote-theme. It provides a clean, simple layout with configurable title, description, download links, and Google Analytics support.

## Use cases
- style a GitHub Pages project site with a minimal theme
- create a simple documentation or README-style website
- customize a Jekyll theme's stylesheet and layouts
- add Google Analytics to a GitHub Pages site
- quickly publish a static site without designing CSS from scratch

## When to choose
- you host a site on GitHub Pages and want a supported, low-effort theme
- you want a clean, content-focused layout with minimal configuration
- you need a theme that is easy to override with custom SCSS or layouts

## When to avoid
- you need a blog-oriented theme with post listings and pagination
- you want a modern JavaScript-based frontend framework or rich UI components
- you are not using Jekyll or GitHub Pages

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: stable
- function: templating, css-framework, static-site-generator
- domain: web-development, web-design, documentation
- platform: ruby
- tags: jekyll-theme, github-pages, scss, static-site-theme, web-server

## Member repositories
- pages-themes/minimal (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:39.402175+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 2026-08-30T03:21:20.139957+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/pages-themes/minimal (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:39.402175+00:00, sha 01b6604a700b)
  - homepage: https://pages-themes.github.io/minimal/ (fetched 2026-08-29T11:00:06.603746+00:00, sha 5506701c8d9e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.