Underscores is a minimalist starter theme designed for developers who want to build custom website themes from the ground up. It provides a clean, standards-compliant foundation that is meant to be fully customized, not used as a parent theme.

• Lean, Modern Codebase: Offers a just-right amount of well-commented, modern HTML5 templates and starter CSS. This minimal approach means less pre-built code to remove or override, allowing you to implement your design vision directly.
• Development-Focused Features: Includes practical development aids like custom template tags to keep code clean, a sample custom header implementation, and small helper functions to improve the theming experience.
• Mobile-Ready Foundation: Comes with a navigation script that automatically converts menus into a toggled dropdown on small screens, providing a responsive starting point ready for custom styling.
• Flexible Layout Options: Provides two sample CSS layouts in the /layouts/ directory for a sidebar on either side of the main content, giving you a structural head start.
• Helpful Templates: Includes a helpful 404 error page template and all code is licensed under GPLv2 or later, ensuring freedom for your projects.