Lutra

A clean, modern, customisable, searchable, mobile-friendly theme for documentation.

Elevator pitch

• Statically awesome — builds upon Sphinx and huge ecosystem of extensions.
• Responsive — works across all sorts of screen resolutions.
• Customisable — change colors, fonts, page layout and more!
• Clear typography — borrowing the design language of this decade's websites.
• Capable navigation — scales with large documentation sets.
• Capable search — help readers find what they want quickly.
• Modern architecture — built with modern tooling (sphinx-theme-builder, Tailwind, webpack, and more).

Quickstart

To use the theme in your existing Sphinx documentation:

1. Install Lutra in documentation's build environment.

   $ pip install lutra

2. Update the html_theme in conf.py. If there's any configuration variables that start with html_ in this file, comment them out.

   html_theme = "lutra"

3. Your Sphinx documentation's HTML pages will now be generated with this theme! 🎉

For more information, visit Lutra's documentation.

Contributing

Lutra is a volunteer maintained open source project, and we welcome contributions of all forms. Please take a look at our Contributing Guide for more information.

Acknowledgements

Lutra draws inspiration from some excellent technical documentation websites:

• mkdocs-material for MkDocs
• Gatsby documentation
• Tailwind CSS documentation
• Just the Docs for Jekyll

We use BrowserStack to test on real devices and browsers. Shoutout to them for supporting OSS projects!

What's with the name?

I plucked this out of the scientific name for The Eurasian otter: Lutra lutra. You can decide whether I picked the first one or the second one.

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License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.