Installation

Just fork this repository and adjust the _config.yml to use with Github Pages and your page is done.

Features

supports dark mode on macOS Mojave
optional sidebar
MathJax support
no external ressources
included archive page
supports pagination
feed generation
responsive
syntax highlighting
supports comments via disqus or isso

Based on

Installation (jekyll-remote-theme method)

You can use this theme with the jekyll-remote-theme plugin. Just create an empty repo, copy over the index.html file and add this to your _config.yml:

remote_theme: niklasbuschmann/contrast@v2.11

plugins:
  - jekyll-remote-theme

Note: to enable icons you also need to copy over the _data folder.

Config

Your _config.yml could for example look like this:

title: "Blog Title"
author: "Blog Author"
description: "My personal blog about ... something"
permalink: /:title/
lang: "en"
excerpt_separator: "\n\n\n"
date_format: "%B %d, %Y"

# Layout

show_excerpts: true        # show article excerpts on the home page
show_frame: true           # adds a gray frame to the site
show_sidebar: false        # show a sidebar instead of the usual header

# Menu

navigation:                # accepts {file, title, url, icon, sidebaricon}
  - {file: "index.html"}
  - {file: "README.md"}

external:                  # shows a footer with social links - for available icons see fontawesome.com/icons
  - {title: Mail, icon: envelope, url: "mailto:niklasbuschmann@users.noreply.github.com"}
  - {title: Github, icon: github, url: "https://github.com/niklasbuschmann/contrast"}
  - {title: Subscribe, icon: rss, url: "/feed.xml"}

comments:
#  disqus_shortname: ""    # see https://disqus.com/
#  isso_domain: ""         # see https://posativ.org/isso/

plugins:
 - jekyll-feed

MathJax

Contrast comes preinstalled with a leightweight alternative to MathJax called KaTeX. To display equations in a post simply set mathjax: true in the article's front matter.

License

public domain

prasanthc41m/blog