dactl is a fast, modern and configurable Jekyll theme with some tricks up it’s sleeve. It has a live theme switcher and it’s main blog layout display prominent hero images for posts with colored overlays and nice animations.

Features

Though minimalistic-looking by nature, dactl is easily configurable and includes quite a lot of niceties:

  • Main features:
    • Customizable blog layout - choose how your posts will be displayed
    • Light/Dark live theme switcher
    • Inline footnotes using Barefoot
    • IcoMoon custom icon set (~4kb)
    • Typography and components size set in rem and em which makes them easily scalable
    • Responsive design
  • Jekyll-specific features:
    • Pagination (default: 5 posts per page)
    • Fully compatible with Jekyll 3.x and GitHub Pages
    • SEO optimized
    • Google Analytics support
    • Disqus comments support
    • Syntax highlighter using Rouge with numbered code lines
  • Other features:
    • Archive page
    • About page
    • Tags functionality and tags pages
    • Link posts functionality