Underscores is a minimalist starter theme designed for developers and designers who want to build custom website themes from the ground up. It provides a clean, well-structured codebase that serves as a foundation, avoiding the bloat and restrictive design choices of pre-built themes.

• Lean, commented templates: Offers a just-right amount of modern, HTML5 templates with clear comments, making them easy to understand and modify.
• Organized starter CSS: Provides smartly organized CSS in style.css to help you quickly establish your design's basic structure and layout.
• Custom template tags: Includes custom template tags in inc/template-tags.php to keep your template files clean and prevent code duplication.
• Responsive navigation: Features a script (js/navigation.js) that automatically converts menus into toggled dropdowns on small screens, providing a responsive starting point.
• Sample layouts and functions: Comes with optional sample layouts, a 404 template, and small tweaks in template functions to improve the development workflow.