Starter theme
Ship a product site this afternoon
Velocity is the smallest useful Static Site Generator theme: five pages, one stylesheet, no build step and nothing loaded from anyone else’s server.
Built for shipping quickly
No build toolchain
No npm install, no bundler, no lockfile. Edit Markdown, run one binary, deploy the folder.
Nothing phones home
No CDN, webfont host, analytics or tag manager. There is nothing to disclose in a cookie banner.
Accessible by default
Colour tokens are gated at AAA for text; keyboard paths and focus states are checked in CI.
Search included
The generator injects an accessible search dialog with a live-region result count. The theme skins it.
Feeds included
RSS, Atom and JSON Feed are generated from the same content and linked in the document head.
One file to re-skin
The whole palette is a token block at the top of styles.css. Change it, run the gate.
Who this is for
Velocity suits a product landing page, a small SaaS marketing site, or the public face of an open-source project. It is deliberately smaller than Apex: no case-study index, no portfolio hero, no metrics dashboard.
If you need a portfolio, use Apex. If you are publishing long-form writing or research, use Atlas. If you want a page that explains a product and collects enquiries, this is the one.
What "no build step" means
There is no package.json. The stylesheet is hand-authored CSS using cascade layers and custom properties, which every target browser supports natively. The two JavaScript files total under 4 KB and are plain ES5 — no transpiler, no polyfill, no module graph.
To work on the theme you run the generator and refresh. That is the whole loop.
Extending it
Adding a page is two files: a Markdown file in content/ and a layout in _layouts/ that opens with {{#extends "base"}}. The header, footer and document shell come along automatically, so a new page starts at about eight lines.