Underscores is a starter theme designed for developers who build custom themes for a widely-used content management system. It provides a minimal, standards-compliant foundation, allowing you to focus on creating a unique design without unnecessary bloat.

• 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 with less to strip away.
• Development Utilities: Includes custom template tags to keep code clean and prevent duplication, along with template functions to improve the theming workflow.
• Responsive Navigation: Comes with a JavaScript file that converts the menu into a toggled dropdown on small screens, providing a responsive foundation ready for custom styling.
• Layout & Design Starters: Provides two sample CSS layouts for sidebars and an optional sample custom header implementation, giving practical starting points for common design patterns.
• Hacker-Friendly Philosophy: Explicitly intended as a base to be modified and extended into a complete theme, not used as a parent theme. Its minimal style is deliberate to get out of your way during development.