Hux Blog is a Jekyll theme for building a personal blog with progressive web app capabilities. The theme solves the problem of creating a visually polished, feature-rich blog without building from scratch, using Jekyll's static site generation approach combined with Liquid templating and a responsive design that works across devices.
The theme is built on Jekyll with Ruby and Bundler as dependencies. Development involves Grunt for build tasks including JavaScript minification, LESS-to-CSS compilation, and license header management. The critical template logic lives in the `_include/` and `_layouts/` directories as Liquid templates. Code syntax highlighting uses Rouge, which is compatible with Pygments themes, allowing customization by swapping theme CSS files.
Developers should choose this theme if they want an established, production-ready blog design without extensive customization work. It suits personal blogs and portfolio sites where a clean, professional appearance matters. The theme acknowledges its own build tooling as old-fashioned and lacking modularization or transpilation, which may matter if you plan significant modifications. The README notes that a boilerplate starter repository exists but is out of date.
The project maintains its original repository as the canonical source, with community ports available for Hexo and React-SSR. Development activity shows the theme remains actively maintained, with the core codebase stable and focused on bug fixes and incremental improvements rather than architectural overhauls. The maintainer has kept the project's foundational structure intact while accepting that the build system reflects earlier web development practices.
