Underscores (_s) is a minimalist starter theme designed for developers and designers who want to build custom website themes from the ground up. It provides a clean, standards-compliant foundation that avoids pre-styled opinions, making it ideal for creating unique designs without the overhead of a bloated framework.

• Lean, Modern Codebase: Offers a just-right amount of well-commented HTML5 templates and starter CSS. This organized, minimal approach provides the essential structure without imposing design decisions, allowing you to focus on your own creative implementation.
• Development-Focused Features: Includes practical utilities like custom template tags to keep code clean and prevent duplication, a helpful 404 template, and sample functions to improve the theming workflow. It also contains an optional sample implementation for custom headers.
• Mobile-Ready Foundation: Comes with a navigation script that automatically converts menus into toggleable dropdowns on small screens, providing a responsive starting point ready for custom CSS styling.
• Flexible Layout Options: Provides two sample CSS layouts in the /layouts/ directory for positioning a sidebar on either the left or right side of the main content area, offering a quick structural starting point.
• Open Source License: The theme is licensed under GPLv2 or later, granting full freedom to use, modify, and distribute your creations built upon this starter code.