Zen is a modern, powerful, HTML5 starting theme with component-based CSS and a responsive, mobile-first grid design. If you are building your own standards-compliant theme, you will find it much easier to start with Zen than to start with Bartik or Stark. This theme has fantastic online documentation and tons of helpful code comments in its JavaScript, PHP, HTML, CSS and Sass.

Zen now comes with modern front-end development practices!

Documentation

The Zen theme is wonderfully documented. Each source file in the project is chock-full of best practice tips and Drupal-specific comments. The project also has an extensive online guide book at:

7.x-6.x features at a glance:

Contributors

The Zen theme system is maintained by John Albin Wilkins.

There are numerous contributors to make Zen a better framework for further theme development. All 100+ of their names can be found by following the View all committers link under the prominent “Maintainers for Zen” block on this page. They rock!

Please contribute your ideas in the issue queue. Zen continues to get better because of community input. :-)

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