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morandyt — Hugo Blog Template

By penyt

Morandyt is a Hugo blog theme that uses the Morandi color palette as its visual foundation, giving the overall look a soft, low-saturation feel.

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Uses the Morandi color palette as its visual foundation, with soft, low-saturation colors

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A minimalist Hugo blog theme

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Provides an online demo site and exampleSite configuration

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Installed as a Git submodule; enable it by setting theme in hugo.toml

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Released under the MIT license

Template Details

Morandyt is a Hugo blog theme by penyt, released under the MIT license. Its core characteristic is the use of the Morandi color tone, with an overall soft, low-saturation visual style that the README describes as minimalist. The theme has its own page on the official Hugo Themes site and provides an online demo site and an example site configuration.

Installation is done by adding the repository to the site's themes directory as a Git submodule, then setting theme to morandyt in hugo.toml. The repository provides an exampleSite, which can be previewed locally by running hugo server with that example directory specified, and the theme can be updated with git submodule update.

Note that the README explicitly states that more complete documentation is not yet available ("More documentation will be available soon"), so the theme's configuration options, available parameters, and page types should be based on the example site and template files in the repository; this article does not make additional inferences about them. The theme code is under the MIT license, but the licensing of third-party assets such as demo images, fonts, and icons must be checked separately.

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Use Cases

  • Building a personal blog focused on text content with a soft visual style
  • Replacing an existing theme in a Hugo site with a low-saturation color scheme
  • Quickly previewing the theme locally via exampleSite before deciding whether to adopt it

Suitable For

  • Sites that build static blogs with Hugo
  • Personal blog authors who prefer low-saturation, soft color schemes
  • Users who want to manage theme versions via Git submodules

Getting started & customization

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    First run hugo new site mywebsite to create the site directory, then enter that directory

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    Add the theme with git submodule add https://github.com/penyt/morandyt.git themes/morandyt

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    Set theme = "morandyt" in hugo.toml

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    Refer to the hugo.toml in the repository's exampleSite, and preview locally with hugo server -s themes/morandyt/exampleSite --themesDir ../..

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    The README states that more complete documentation is not yet available; configuration details should be based on the example site and template files

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# Morandyt

![screenshot](https://github.com/penyt/morandyt/blob/edd90e5846f37fda036f8ddfaf6a9d9d784d7498/images/screenshot.png)

**Morandyt** is a minimal Hugo theme featuring soft Morandi-inspired color palettes.

[Click here to see official theme page](https://themes.gohugo.io/themes/morandyt/)

## Generate a hugo site folder (named "mywebsite")

`hugo new site mywebsite`

default folder structure:  
.  
├── archetypes  
│   └── default.md  
├── assets  
├── content  
├── data  
├── hugo.toml  
├── i18n  
├── layouts  
├── static  
└── themes

## 📦 Installation

First, navigate to your website's directory.

```
cd mywebsite
```

Add this theme as a Git submodule:

```bash
git submodule add https://github.com/penyt/morandyt.git themes/morandyt
```

folder structure:  
.  
├── archetypes  
│   └── default.md  
├── assets  
├── content  
├── data  
├── hugo.toml  
├── i18n  
├── layouts  
├── resources  
├── static  
└── themes  
 └── morandyt

Then, in your hugo.toml, `nano hugo.toml`, set:

```toml
theme = "morandyt"
```

Here's an example [hugo.toml](https://github.com/penyt/morandyt/blob/main/exampleSite/hugo.toml).

You can preview the example site [here](https://morandyt-demo.penyt.com) or locally with:

```sh
hugo server -s themes/morandyt/exampleSite --themesDir ../..
```

### Get latest theme version

```sh
git submodule update --remote --merge
```

## 📝 Documentation

More documentation will be available soon.

## 📄 License

MIT
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