Underscores is a minimalist starter theme designed for developers who build custom themes for the popular content management system. It provides a lean, standards-compliant foundation that is meant to be fully customized, not used as a parent theme. This approach is ideal for developers who want full control over their theme's structure and design without having to strip out unnecessary features or bloated code.

Key features include:

• Lean, commented HTML5 templates: Provides a just-right amount of modern, semantic markup as a starting point, with clear comments to guide development.
• Organized starter CSS: Smartly organized CSS in style.css helps you start implementing your design quickly, with minimal default styling to override.
• Custom template tags and functions: Includes separate files like inc/template-tags.php and inc/template-functions.php to keep template files clean and prevent code duplication.
• Responsive navigation script: A JavaScript file (js/navigation.js) provides a basic toggle for menus on small screens, ready for custom styling.
• Sample layouts and components: Offers practical starting points like two sample CSS layouts, a 404 template, and an optional custom header implementation to accelerate development.