Underscores is a starter framework designed for developers who want to create custom themes efficiently. It serves as a clean, minimal base that avoids pre-built designs, allowing for full creative control and faster project starts.

• Lean, modern templates: Offers HTML5 templates with just enough structure and comments to guide development without excess code.
• Organized starter CSS: Includes smartly organized CSS in style.css to help quickly implement designs and reduce initial setup time.
• Custom template tags: Provides template tags in inc/template-tags.php to keep templates clean, prevent code duplication, and maintain readability.
• Responsive navigation: Features a script at js/navigation.js that enables toggled dropdown menus on small screens, ready for custom styling.
• Sample layouts and tools: Comes with 2 sample CSS layouts for sidebars, a 404 template, and optional custom header implementation to aid common theming tasks.