A Hugo theme for personal blogs, derived from the Kiera theme
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darkyellow — Hugo Blog Template
By GuillemCastro
darkyellow is a Hugo theme for personal blogs, maintained by GuillemCastro, derived from the Kiera theme and released under the MIT license.
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Released under the MIT license, allowing use, modification, commercial use, and distribution
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Template Details
darkyellow is a Hugo theme for personal blogs. The repository is maintained by GuillemCastro, and the README states that it is derived from avianto's Kiera theme. The theme uses Hugo as its only technology stack and is a blog-type template, suitable for generating static sites with Hugo and writing personal articles.
The repository provides two screenshots (images/screenshot.png and images/syntax.png), showing the overall page appearance and code syntax highlighting, which can be used to understand the theme's visual style. The project is under the MIT license, allowing free use, modification, commercial use, and distribution, but the original author's copyright notice and the full license notice must be retained; the licensing of third-party assets such as demo images, fonts, and icons must be checked separately.
The materials do not list the theme's specific feature list, configuration options, dependency versions, or compatible Hugo versions, nor do they state its maintenance status or production readiness. Before use, you should check the repository contents and commit history yourself.
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Use Cases
- Building a personal blog with Hugo and writing articles
- Customizing a theme derived from Kiera
- Needing a blog theme under the MIT license that can be freely modified
Suitable For
- Personal blog authors using Hugo
- Front-end developers who want to build on an existing theme
- Projects that need a permissive-license (MIT) template
Getting started & customization
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The theme is a Hugo theme and must be installed and enabled in a Hugo site
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The README does not provide configuration instructions; for specific usage, refer to the repository files
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After distribution or modification, the original author's copyright notice and the MIT license notice must be retained
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Third-party assets such as demo images, fonts, and icons must be checked against their respective licenses
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The repository does not list dependency versions or compatible Hugo versions; confirm them yourself before use
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Free to use · keep license noticeThis entry covers the free version under the MIT license in the public repository; the free scope is the code of this version and does not mean that external services or third-party assets are free.
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- The code of this version may be used, modified, used commercially, and distributed for free.
- When distributing copies or substantial portions of the code, retain the original author's copyright notice and the full MIT license notice.
- The code is provided as is; warranties and limitations of liability are governed by the original license and applicable law.
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Template Information
- Source platforms
- GitHub
- Documentation and maintenance reference score
- Less documented · 53 / 100
- Technologies
- Hugo
- Website type
- Blog
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- Repository update recorded
- 2020-06-27
- Screenshot last checked
- 2026-10-11
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Source file / repository# darkyellow A Hugo theme for personal blogs This theme is derived from the [Kiera theme for Hugo](https://github.com/avianto/hugo-kiera). ## Screenshots   ## License ``` The MIT License (MIT) Copyright (c) 2017 b. avianto Copyright (c) 2020 Guillem Castro Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. ```
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