Clean
A base theme with a focus on minimal implementation.
The idea behind this theme was to make a clean, versatile theme that has just enough styling to be usable right out of the box. Clean theme is analogous to using a reset.css file to start a project, but in the form of a Drupal theme. Clean theme provides a solid foundation on which you will be able to create a bespoke theme within the shortest possible time.
Key features
- Lean, mean base theme
- Focus on minimal implementation
- 100% XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS 2.1 valid
- 1/2/3 column collapsible layout
- Large base font size
- Relative font sizes
- Thorough use of CSS inheritance
- Default layout fits 960gs grid
- Theme setting to toggle 12 column 960 grid background
- 6.x version has theme setting to flush theme registry cache on each page load to make theme development easier
Usage
The best way to work with Clean theme is to create a new theme with base theme = clean in the theme's info file. Keep Clean theme at sites/all/themes and each site specific theme based on Clean theme at sites/example.com/themes.
There are currently 2 subthemes in the 6.x-2.x release to make it easier to create a light on dark site or site with a liquid layout. If you want to use either of these you should specify base theme = clean_dark or base theme = clean_liquid in the info file of your new theme.
Using this method keeps Clean theme free of modifications. For the same reasons you don't hack core, don't hack Clean. You will be able to benefit from future updates to Clean theme this way.
Note: The 6.x-2.x development version contains a lot of new features and is being refactored at the moment to make it more neutral and suitable to be used as a base theme. I have decided to create a new branch for these changes so any existing installations using the base theme method are not broken.
This theme was sponsored and is maintained by Freestyle Systems.
#D7CX: I pledge that Clean theme will have a full Drupal 7 release on the day that Drupal 7 is released.
