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Minimal Light

Minimal Light is a free, open-source static site theme built with Jekyll. A simple and elegant Jekyll theme for an academic personal website. It has 1,052 GitHub stars and is released under the CC0-1.0 license, and GitHub's Use this template button creates your own copy in one click.

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Get started

Use this template creates your own GitHub repository from it. To work locally, copy the files with degit (no git history) or clone the repository.

Copy with degit
npx degit yaoyao-liu/minimal-light my-site
cd my-site
bundle install
bundle exec jekyll serve
Or clone with git
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yaoyao-liu/minimal-light.git my-site

Sources: GitHub docs on template repositories, degit.

About Minimal Light

This is the source code of my homepage. I built this website based on minimal. Feel free to use and share the source code anywhere you like.

Built with

  • Jekyll
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FAQ

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How do I use Minimal Light?

Click Use this template on GitHub to create your own repository from it with a fresh history, or copy the files locally with npx degit yaoyao-liu/minimal-light my-site. Then follow the README for the install and dev commands.

Can I use Minimal Light for commercial projects?

Yes. Minimal Light is released under the CC0-1.0 license, a permissive license that allows commercial use as long as you keep the copyright and license notice. Third-party assets bundled with it (images, fonts, icons) may have their own terms.

Is Minimal Light maintained?

The repository's most recent commit was on Oct 18, 2026. Its latest release is 2.0. appsgit only lists templates from repositories with a commit in the last six months.