Underscores is a starter framework designed for developers who want to create custom themes from scratch on popular content management systems. It offers a clean, minimal codebase that serves as a foundation, allowing you to focus on design and functionality without starting from zero. This tool is ideal for experienced developers who prefer full control over their theme's structure and want to avoid the limitations of pre-built themes.

• Lean, well-commented templates: Provides modern HTML5 templates with clear comments, making it easy to understand and modify the code for your specific needs.
• Smart CSS organization: Includes starter CSS in style.css that is logically structured, helping you quickly implement designs without wrestling with messy stylesheets.
• Custom template tags: Features template tags in inc/template-tags.php that reduce code duplication and keep your templates clean and maintainable.
• Responsive navigation: Comes with a script at js/navigation.js that enables toggled dropdown menus on small screens, ready for customization with CSS.
• Sample layouts and tools: Offers two sample CSS layouts in layouts/ for sidebars, an optional custom header implementation, and tweaks in inc/template-functions.php to improve the theming workflow.