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https://github.com/pradyunsg/furo

A clean customizable documentation theme for Sphinx
https://github.com/pradyunsg/furo

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A clean customizable documentation theme for Sphinx

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Furo



A clean customisable Sphinx documentation theme.



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## Elevator pitch

- **Intentionally minimal** --- the most important thing is the content, not the scaffolding around it.
- **Responsive** --- adapting perfectly to the available screen space, to work on all sorts of devices.
- **Customisable** --- change the color palette, font families, logo and more!
- **Easy to navigate** --- with carefully-designed sidebar navigation and inter-page links.
- **Good looking content** --- through clear typography and well-stylised elements.
- **Good looking search** --- helps readers find what they want quickly.
- **Biased for smaller docsets** --- intended for smaller documentation sets, where presenting the entire hierarchy in the sidebar is not overwhelming.

## Quickstart

Furo is distributed on [PyPI]. To use the theme in your Sphinx project:

1. Install Furo in documentation's build environment.

```text
pip install furo
```

2. Update the `html_theme` in `conf.py`.

```py
html_theme = "furo"
```

3. Your Sphinx documentation's HTML pages will now be generated with this theme! ๐ŸŽ‰

[pypi]: https://pypi.org/project/furo/

For more information, visit [Furo's documentation][quickstart-docs].

[quickstart-docs]: https://pradyunsg.me/furo/quickstart

## Contributing

Furo is a volunteer maintained open source project, and we welcome contributions of all forms. Please take a look at our [Contributing Guide](https://pradyunsg.me/furo/contributing/) for more information.

## Acknowledgements

Furo is inspired by (and borrows elements from) some excellent technical documentation themes:

- [mkdocs-material] for MkDocs
- [Just the Docs] for Jekyll
- [GitBook]
- [pdoc3]

We use [BrowserStack] to test on real devices and browsers. Shoutout to them for supporting OSS projects!

[mkdocs-material]: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/
[just the docs]: https://just-the-docs.github.io/just-the-docs/
[gitbook]: https://www.gitbook.com/
[pdoc3]: https://pdoc3.github.io/pdoc/doc
[browserstack]: https://browserstack.com/

## What's with the name?

I plucked this from the scientific name for [Domesticated Ferrets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferret): Mustela putorius **furo**.

A ferret is actually a really good spirit animal for this project: cute, small, steals little things from various places, and hisses at you when you try to make it do things it doesn't like.

> I plan on commissioning a logo for this project (or making one myself) consisting of a cute ferret. Please reach out if you're interested!

## Used By

> I'm being told that mentioning who uses `$thing` is a good way to promote `$thing`.

- [urllib3] -- THE first adopter of Furo
- [attrs] -- one of the early adopters!
- [pip] -- what I wrote this for
- [Python Developerโ€™s Guide][devguide]
- [black]

[urllib3]: https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/
[attrs]: https://www.attrs.org/
[devguide]: https://devguide.python.org/
[pip]: https://pip.pypa.io/
[psycopg3]: https://www.psycopg.org/psycopg3/docs/
[black]: https://black.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
[pelican]: https://docs.getpelican.com/en/latest/

## License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.