Underscores is a minimal starter theme designed for developers and designers who build custom themes from the ground up. It provides a clean, standards-compliant codebase that serves as a blank canvas, avoiding pre-set design decisions so you can implement your own visual style and functionality.

• Lean, Modern Codebase: Offers a just-right amount of well-commented, modern HTML5 templates and starter CSS. This organized structure helps you begin development quickly without removing unnecessary bloat.
• Development-Focused Features: Includes custom template tags to keep code clean and prevent duplication, along with helpful template functions to improve the theming workflow.
• Responsive Foundation: Comes with a navigation script that converts menus into a toggled dropdown on small screens, providing a ready-made responsive behavior for custom styling.
• Flexible Layout Options: Provides two sample CSS layouts in the /layouts/ directory for implementing sidebars on either side of the main content area.
• Extensible Boilerplate: Contains optional sample code for features like custom headers and a helpful 404 template, giving you practical examples to extend and modify.