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## About

Tersus is an exercise in publishing template minimalism, based on the orginal [Tersus for Wordpress](http://github.com/splorp/tersus/) theme.
Tersus for Tumblr is an exercise in publishing template minimalism, based on the orginal [Tersus for Wordpress](https://github.com/splorp/tersus/) theme.

Why create yet another theme? As clean and stripped down as some themes are, we wanted to prune things a bit further.

Tersus was originally named Simplicity — a term that described exactly what the project was all about. However, that was prior to the discovery of a [WordPress](http://wordpress.org/) theme already using that very name. After a brief discussion, several latin terms were bandied about as replacements. Tersus (which means ‘clean, neat, or cleansed’) seemed to fit the bill rather nicely … and here we are.

Keep track of Tersus development on [Twitter](http://twitter.com/tersustheme).
See this theme in action over on [splorp.tumblr.com](https://splorp.tumblr.com/)


## Features

+ HTML5 structure and compliance
+ CSS that has been reset and built from the ground up
+ Non-semantic, presentational markup has been dispatched
+ Responsive, adaptive layout for small screens
+ CSS that is minimal and tidy
+ Non-semantic, presentational markup has been beaten into submission
+ Clean, valid, and awesome


## Credits

The Tersus project is brought to you by [Chris Harrison](http://cdharrison.com/), [Grant Hutchinson](http://splorp.me/), [Dan Rubin](http://danielrubin.org/), and [Andy van der Raadt](http://nicemodernist.com/).

Lovely chaps, all of them.

The groundwork for Tersus was based on the [Starkers](http://starkerstheme.com/) theme created by the affable [Elliot Jay Stocks](http://elliotjaystocks.com/).

We’d also like to give some props to the fine individuals and handy resources which have made the development of Tersus much more enjoyable. On the currently guest list are [Grettir Asmundarson](http://tinypineapple.com/), [Beau Calvez](http://twitter.com/avengio), [David Kendal](http://davidkendal.net/), [BBEdit](http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/), [CSS Lint](http://csslint.net/), [GitHub for Mac](http://mac.github.com/), and Google’s [Rich Snippets Testing Tool](http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets).

Cheers.
Tersus for Tumblr is being developed by [Grant Hutchinson](https://splorp.me/).


## Licensing

The Tersus theme is absolutely free and conveniently licensed under GPL. You may use it for personal or commercial projects, as you see fit. Please refer to the [license.txt](https://github.com/splorp/tersus-tumblr/blob/master/license.txt) file included with the source for more information.

Portions of the stylesheets are based on the [YUI CSS Reset](http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/reset/) and [YUI CSS Base](http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/base/) tools provided as part of the [Yahoo! User Interface Library](http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/). All of the [YUI Library](http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/) components are provided free of charge under a liberal [BSD license](http://yuilibrary.com/license/). Copyright © 2012 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.
The Tersus for Tumblr theme is absolutely free and conveniently licensed under GPL. You may use it for personal or commercial projects, as you see fit. Please refer to the [license.txt](https://github.com/splorp/tersus-tumblr/blob/master/license.txt) file included with the source for more information.


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