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anatole — Hugo Starter Template

By lxndrblz

Anatole is a minimalistic two-column theme for Hugo, ported from farbox-theme-Anatole. It supports dark mode, multilingual and RTL, and offers optional features such as portfolio, comments, and analytics.

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Minimalistic two-column layout, ported from farbox-theme-Anatole

Built-in dark mode, multilingual and RTL support

Optional portfolio and article thumbnails

Optional comment systems: Disqus, Commento, Gitalk, Utteranc.es, Giscus

Optional analytics: Google Analytics, Simple Analytics, Umami

Supports KaTeX formulas, Mermaid diagrams, and Formspree contact form

Template Details

Anatole is a minimalistic two-column theme for Hugo, ported from farbox-theme-Anatole by Alexander Bilz. The theme is characterized by clean typography and a two-column layout, suitable for personal blogs, portfolios, or documentation sites.

In terms of features, the theme includes built-in dark mode, multilingual and RTL support, and provides a range of optional integrations: portfolio, article thumbnails, Google Analytics / Simple Analytics / Umami analytics, Disqus / Commento / Gitalk / Utteranc.es / Giscus comments, KaTeX math formulas, Mermaid diagrams, Formspree contact form, Twitter Cards, Open Graph, Google Fonts, and custom JavaScript and CSS. The theme claims to follow a strict CSP and supports post series.

Regarding usage limitations, the README mentions that the Formspree form service requires configuring an endpoint yourself, and its quotas and fees must be checked separately; third-party assets such as demo images, fonts, and icons must be checked under their respective licenses and cannot be judged solely by the code's MIT license; external services such as domain and hosting may incur additional charges. Documentation has been moved to the GitHub Wiki.

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Use Cases

Building a personal blog that needs clean two-column typography and dark mode
Creating a multilingual or RTL language site
Displaying a portfolio page with article thumbnails
Integrating comments, analytics, or math formulas into a static site

Suitable For

Developers building static sites with Hugo
Personal bloggers who prefer a minimalistic two-column design
Site authors who need multilingual or RTL support
Users who want to enable optional features such as comments, analytics, and formulas on demand

Getting started & customization

Use these recorded setup notes alongside the repository instructions for your chosen version.

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After cloning the repository, you can run hugo server --themesDir ../.. in the exampleSite directory to preview the example site
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The latest documentation is on the GitHub Wiki; documentation links in the README have been moved
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The Formspree contact form requires configuring a service endpoint yourself; usage quotas and fees must be checked separately
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Third-party assets such as demo images, fonts, and icons must be checked under their respective licenses

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Usage conditions & limitations

Free to use · keep license notice

This 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.

Must comply with when using

Free use, modification, commercial use, and distribution of this version's code are permitted.
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.

Additional costs & items to verify

The contact form is an optional feature that requires using the third-party Formspree service and configuring an endpoint yourself; its free quota and fees must be checked separately.
Analytics is optional and requires integrating external services such as Google Analytics, Simple Analytics, or Umami, which may require account registration or payment.
Comments are optional and require integrating third-party services such as Disqus, Commento, Gitalk, Utteranc.es, or Giscus, which may require account registration.
Assets such as avatars, portfolio images, and thumbnails in the example site come from third parties such as Unsplash and must be checked separately under their respective licenses; they are not licensed together with the MIT code license.
The FontAwesome icons used by the project are third-party assets and must be checked under their own license terms.
The README mentions the Formspree form service; actual submissions require configuring a service endpoint, and its usage quotas and fees must be checked separately.
Demo images, fonts, icons, and other third-party assets must be checked under their respective licenses and cannot be judged solely by the code's MIT license.
External services such as domain, hosting, database, payment, or AI may incur additional charges.

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Permission is hereby granted, free of charge
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Formspree Contact Form (optional)
Original README

Analytics powered by Google Analytics, Simple Analytics and Umami (optional)
Original README

Comments powered by Disqus, Commento, Gitalk, Utteranc.es or Giscus (optional)
Original README

Go to [Kareya Saleh](https://unsplash.com/photos/tLKOj6cNwe0) for providing the [profile picture]
Original README

Go to [FontAwseome](https://fontawesome.com/) for providing the icons used in this project.
Original README

https://github.com/lxndrblz/anatole/blob/master/LICENSE https://github.com/lxndrblz/anatole/blob/master/README.md

Compiled by DeepSeek based on repository license and README ·2026-10-02. Results only cover the materials read; dependencies, images, fonts, and subsequent term changes are subject to their respective original texts.

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Template Information

Source platforms: Hugo Themes
Documentation and maintenance reference score: More documented · 91 / 100
Technologies: Hugo
Website type: Starter

How this score is calculated

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Repository update recorded: 2026-07-12
Screenshot last checked: 2026-10-02

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# Anatole Hugo Theme ![LICENSE](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-blue.svg) [![https://img.shields.io/badge/Conventional%20Commits-1.0.0-yellow.svg](https://img.shields.io/badge/Conventional%20Commits-1.0.0-yellow.svg)](https://www.conventionalcommits.org/) [![Netlify Status](https://api.netlify.com/api/v1/badges/1f4f2327-2b3f-428a-8f31-c4f921ebcc44/deploy-status)](https://app.netlify.com/sites/anatole-demo/deploys)

Anatole is a beautiful minimalist two-column [hugo](https://gohugo.io/) theme based on farbox-theme-Anatole.

![Screenshot Anatole Theme](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lxndrblz/anatole/master/images/screenshot.png)
![Screenshot Anatole Theme (dark)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lxndrblz/anatole/master/images/screenshot_dark.png)

## Demo

A live demo of the theme can be found under the following domain:
[https://anatole-demo.netlify.app/](https://anatole-demo.netlify.app/)

## Features

Anatole's aims to be minimalistic and sleek but still brings some great functionality, including:

- Dark mode
- Multilingual
- RTL support
- Portfolio (optional)
- Post Thumbnails (optional)
- 100⁄100 Google Lighthouse score
- Analytics powered by Google Analytics, Simple Analytics and Umami (optional)
- Comments powered by Disqus, Commento, Gitalk, Utteranc.es or Giscus (optional)
- KaTeX support (optional)
- Formspree Contact Form (optional)
- Twitter Cards support
- Open Graph support
- Google Fonts support
- Custom JavaScript and CSS (optional)
- Compliant to strict CSP
- Post Series
- Mermaid diagram support (optional)

## Preview the Example Site

```shell
git clone https://github.com/lxndrblz/anatole.git anatole
cd anatole/exampleSite
hugo server --themesDir ../..
```

## Documentation

🚧 The documentation has moved!

The latest documentation for the theme can be found within the [Wiki Tab on GitHub](https://github.com/lxndrblz/anatole/wiki).

## License

Anatole is licensed under the [MIT license](https://github.com/lxndrblz/anatole/blob/master/LICENSE).

## Contributions

This theme is maintained by its author [Alexander Bilz](https://github.com/lxndrblz) and with the help from these awesome [contributors](https://github.com/lxndrblz/anatole/graphs/contributors). All contributions (including features, translations, code cleanups, improved documentation & bugs reporting) are welcome.

Read the [guidelines](https://github.com/lxndrblz/anatole/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md) for more information about contributing to this project.

## Sponsoring

If you like this theme, give it a star on GitHub, and consider supporting its development:

[![ko-fi](https://www.ko-fi.com/img/githubbutton_sm.svg)](https://ko-fi.com/lxndrblz/)

## Special Thanks 🎁

- Go to [Cai Cai](https://github.com/hi-caicai), for the great Anatole [Farbox theme](https://github.com/hi-caicai/farbox-theme-Anatole) that formed the foundation for this theme.
- Go to [Kareya Saleh](https://unsplash.com/photos/tLKOj6cNwe0) for providing the [profile picture](https://github.com/lxndrblz/anatole/blob/master/exampleSite/static/images/profile.jpg) used in the exampleSite.
- Go to [Petri R](https://unsplash.com/photos/jLn20MzqfdE) for providing the [portfolio picture](https://github.com/lxndrblz/anatole/blob/master/exampleSite/static/images/portfolio/code.jpg) used in the exampleSite.
- Go to [Ales Krivec](https://unsplash.com/photos/4miBe6zg5r0) for providing the thumbnail picture used in the exampleSite [image-test post](https://github.com/lxndrblz/anatole/blob/master/exampleSite/content/english/post/image-test.md).
- Go to [Tobias Ahlin](https://github.com/tobiasahlin) for his [SpinKit](https://github.com/tobiasahlin/SpinKit) that is used in the exampleSite [redirect post](https://github.com/lxndrblz/anatole/blob/master/exampleSite/content/english/post/redirect.md).
- Go to [FontAwseome](https://fontawesome.com/) for providing the icons used in this project.

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