Basic boasts a clean HTML5 structure with extensible CSS classes for unlimited theming possibilities as well as a top-down load order for improved SEO. It is fully responsive out-of-the-box and provides an adaptive, elegant, SASS mixin library and grid system.
Basic's goal is to provide themers the building blocks and best practices needed to get their designs up and running quickly and simply.
Basic is perfect if you want a simple, smart, and flexible theme starter.
Notice: The Drupal 5 through 8 versions of Basic are not under active development and no new features will be added to these branches. New features will only be added to the 3.x versions.
Main Features
- Very simple and easy-to-modify architecture
- Responsive out-of-the-box
- SASS ready with Bourbon mixin library
- Grid Framework provided by Bourbon Neat
- Base styles inspired by Bourbon Bitters
- Grunt build tools for code compilation and asset optimization (optional)
- Drush install/renaming script (new for Drupal 8)
- BrowserSync for live updating when theming on your localhost
- SEO-friendly and easy-to-modify layout
- Great class system for body, node, blocks, comments, navigation, list items ...
- ...and more
Use Basic with SASS and Bourbon
Basic's CSS files have been compiled with a preprocessing language called SASS (Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets). For more information on SASS, visit http://sass-lang.com/
We also utilize Bourbon, a comprehensive library of SASS mixins that are designed to be simple and easy to use. The mixins aim to be as vanilla as possible, meaning they should be as close to the original CSS syntax as possible.
What Sites run on Basic?
- Scanse
- The Jibe
- MyFlix
- Umeboshi Shoes
- Klei Entertainment
- Fincad
- ...and more
- Contact me to add to the list!
What does it look like?
The easiest way to give BASIC Theme a test drive is to head on over to Simplytest.me and spin up a new copy of Drupal Core. Under Advanced Options, click Add Additional Project and enter BASIC (choose the DEV snapshot for the most current version). In a matter of a few minutes, the tools at Simplytest.me will spin up a sandbox so that you can test drive BASIC Theme in your browser.
Maintainers
Project information
1,645 sites report using this theme- Created by SteveK on , updated
Stable releases for this project are covered by the security advisory policy.
There are currently no supported stable releases.
Releases
3.0.0-alpha4
released 24 July 2025
Works with Drupal: ^9.3 || ^10 || ^11
Supported release, bug fixes and improvements.
Install:
Development version: 3.x-dev updated 24 Jul 2025 at 19:50 UTC
