Getting to Know Nuno on nuno

Welcome to nuno

Mon, 04 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000

nuno is a Hugo theme for people who write. It has one typeface, four palettes, a single accent colour, and no third-party requests at all. The home page you arrived on is the whole design argument: a masthead that types itself, a column of numbered cards, and nothing else competing for attention.

What you get

The parts worth knowing about, in rough order of how often you will touch them:

Four Palettes, One Accent

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000

The theme has two colour switches and they are independent of each other. That is the only unusual thing about its palette system, and it is worth five minutes of explanation because almost every customisation question turns out to be about it.

The two switches

Theme is light or dark, toggled by the ☾/☀ button in the nav. Ground is brown or green, toggled from the footer. Neither knows about the other, so the combinations are:

The Image Pipeline

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0000

Of everything the theme does for performance, the image pipeline earns the most. One post in early testing went from 2.5 MB and a 12.9 second load to 118 KB and 533 ms, and nothing changed about it except how the images were processed.

What happens to an image

Write an ordinary Markdown image and a render hook intercepts it:

markdown

![A build-time processed image](images/example-figure.png)