Underscores is a minimal, standards-compliant starter theme designed for developers who build custom themes for content management systems. It provides a lean, well-documented codebase as a foundation, eliminating unnecessary styling and features so developers can create unique designs efficiently.

• Lean, Modern Templates: Offers a just-right amount of lean, well-commented, modern HTML5 templates that serve as a clean slate for development.
• Organized Starter CSS: Features smartly organized starter CSS in style.css to help quickly establish a design foundation without prescriptive styles.
• Custom Template Tags: Includes custom template tags in inc/template-tags.php to keep template files clean and prevent code duplication.
• Responsive Navigation: Provides a script (js/navigation.js) that converts the menu into a toggled dropdown on small screens, ready for custom CSS styling.
• Sample Layouts & Functions: Contains two sample CSS layouts in layouts/ and small tweaks in inc/template-functions.php to improve the theming experience.