Underscores is a minimal starter theme designed for developers who build custom themes for content management systems. It provides a clean, standards-compliant codebase as a foundation, eliminating unnecessary styling and features so developers can focus on creating unique designs and functionality.

• Lean, Modern Templates: The theme offers a just-right amount of well-commented, modern HTML5 templates. This includes a helpful 404 template and organized starter CSS to accelerate the initial design phase.
• Custom Template Tags and Functions: It includes custom template tags to keep template files clean and prevent code duplication. Additional small tweaks in the template functions file are provided to improve the theming workflow.
• Responsive Navigation: A built-in JavaScript script handles navigation, converting menus into a toggled dropdown on small screens, providing a responsive foundation ready for custom styling.
• Layout Flexibility: The starter kit includes sample CSS layouts for sidebars on either side of the main content, offering a starting point for common website structures.
• GPL Licensing: The theme is licensed under GPLv2 or later, granting developers the freedom to use, modify, and distribute their creations based on this foundation.