Website template
Stack
Card-style Hugo theme designed for bloggers
Portfolio · Blog · Free

Pages
Screenshots of the live demo, page by page. Scroll inside a page to see all of it.

Design breakdown
An AI reading of this template's design: colors, type, spacing, sections and signature details. Ottermind starts from it when you use the template.
- Overall
blog, clean, minimal, light
- Palette
background #f5f5fa; surfaces [#ffffff, #2a9d8f, #eaeaea]; text #000000; muted text #707070; primary #2a9d8f; accents []
- Type
headings Lato, 700, sentence-case; body Lato, 16px; scale h1 16px / h2 14px / h3 20px
- Shape & spacing
button/card radius 10px/4px, no borders, shadow rgba(0,0,0,0.04) 0 4px 8px, rgba(0,0,0,0.06) 0 0 2px, rgba(0,0,0,0.04) 0 0 1px, section spacing 2rem, content width 800px
- Sections (top to bottom)
- Header — fixed sidebar with logo, nav links, language toggle, dark mode switch; main content area with hero image and article cards; right sidebar with search, archives, categories, tags
- Main content — vertical card layout of articles with featured image, label, headline, excerpt, metadata, language tags; consistent padding and spacing between cards
- Pagination — centered numeric pagination with ellipsis and arrows
- Footer — centered copyright, Hugo credit, designer attribution
- Signature details
- Card-style article containers with subtle drop shadows
- Teal "Documentation" label above each article
- Minimalist sidebar with icon-only navigation
- Hover effect on sidebar items and buttons
- Language selector with flag icons
- Clean typography hierarchy with consistent spacing
- Other pages
- /about: personal profile with bio and social links
- /archives: chronological list of posts by year
- /search: results page with filtered entries
- /links: curated external resources in grid layout
Template details
- Category
- Portfolio, Blog
- Built with
- Hugo
- License
- GPL-3.0-only
- Author
- Jimmy Cai
- Listed on
- Hugo Themes
- Price
- Free
- blog
- dark
- light
- personal
Original design by Jimmy Cai, listed on Hugo Themes. Ottermind does not copy the template's code; it builds a new site from the brief.
The brief Ottermind starts from
It opens in Studio as a draft — add your brand, audience and pages before you send.
Build a portfolio website inspired by the "Stack" template. Reference brief: Card-style Hugo theme designed for bloggers Style and features to reflect: blog, dark, light, personal. Use original copy and imagery for my brand rather than the reference's placeholder content.
How to use this template
- 1
Click “Use this template” to open it in Ottermind Studio with its brief filled in.
- 2
Add your brand, audience, pages and content to the brief.
- 3
Ottermind builds a new site inspired by this design — keep editing it in the chat.







