hugo-trainsh

A minimal, content-first Hugo theme — defaults to a NES/FC retro pixel style inspired by classic 8-bit RPGs.

Retro Mode (Default)

The theme ships with a Retro mode enabled by default, inspired by the NES/FC era:

• Deep-blue background (#00237C) with white pixel-art dialog borders
• Fusion Pixel 12px font for headings, navigation, and UI elements
• Per-language font variants: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Latin
• NES palette syntax highlighting for code blocks
• RPG-style gold tags, pixel dashed <hr>, hard shadows, zero border-radius
• No CSS transitions — everything snaps like an 8-bit console

Two additional modes are available via the header toggle: Light and Dark (clean, modern palettes). The cycle is: Retro (gamepad) → Light (sun) → Dark (moon) → Retro …

Features

• Clean reading layout for posts and pages
• /blog/ archive (grouped by year) and /tags/ taxonomy pages
• Built-in shortcodes:
  • {{< toc >}}
  • {{< tags >}} / {{< tags sort="freq" limit="20" >}}
  • {{< recent-posts limit="5" >}}
• Code blocks with syntax highlighting, copy button, and soft-wrap toggle
• Mermaid diagrams and KaTeX math rendering
• Image rendering with figure captions + PhotoSwipe lightbox
• Three theme modes: Retro (default), Light, and Dark
• Multilingual support (with per-language pixel font variants) and footer social links

Quick Start

git submodule add https://github.com/binbinsh/hugo-trainsh themes/hugo-trainsh
git submodule update --init --recursive

In your site config:

theme = "hugo-trainsh"

[params]
mainSections = ["posts"]

mainSections must match where your posts live (content/posts/ -> ["posts"], content/blog/ -> ["blog"]).

Optional JSON output (for custom index/search use cases):

[outputs]
home = ["HTML", "RSS", "JSON"]

Create content/blog/_index.md to enable the /blog/ page.

Documentation

• Usage guide: docs/usage.md

Theme Info

• Demo: hugo-trainsh.pages.dev
• Repository: github.com/binbinsh/hugo-trainsh
• Author: Binbin Shen