Underscores is a minimalist starter theme designed for developers who build custom themes from the ground up. It provides a clean, standards-compliant foundation, eliminating unnecessary design and features to let you focus on creating a unique theme.

• Lean, Modern Codebase: Offers a just-right amount of well-commented, modern HTML5 templates and starter CSS. This organized codebase helps you start your design quickly without wrestling with a bloated framework.
• Development-Focused Features: Includes custom template tags to keep code clean and prevent duplication, along with small helper functions to improve the theming experience. An optional sample custom header implementation is provided for reference.
• Responsive & Accessible Foundation: Comes with a navigation script that automatically creates a toggled dropdown menu for small screens, ready for styling. It also includes a helpful 404 error page template.
• Layout Flexibility: Provides two sample CSS layouts in the /layouts/ directory for a sidebar on either side of your content, giving you a starting point for common website structures.
• Open Source License: Licensed under GPLv2 or later, allowing you to freely use, modify, and distribute your creations built upon this starter theme.