Furo

A clean customisable Sphinx documentation theme.

Elevator pitch

• Intentionally minimal --- the most important thing is the content, not the scaffolding around it.
• Responsive --- adapting perfectly to the available screen space, to work on all sorts of devices.
• Customisable --- change the color palette, font families, logo and more!
• Easy to navigate --- with carefully-designed sidebar navigation and inter-page links.
• Good looking content --- through clear typography and well-stylised elements.
• Good looking search --- helps readers find what they want quickly.
• Biased for smaller docsets --- intended for smaller documentation sets, where presenting the entire hierarchy in the sidebar is not overwhelming.

Quickstart

Furo is distributed on PyPI. To use the theme in your Sphinx project:

1. Install Furo in documentation's build environment.

   pip install furo
   

2. Update the html_theme in conf.py.

   html_theme = "furo"

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

For more information, visit Furo's documentation.

Contributing

Furo 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.

If CSS changes are introduced in flyte.css, run gulp build to compile CSS and JS.

Acknowledgements

Furo is inspired by (and borrows elements from) some excellent technical documentation themes:

• mkdocs-material for MkDocs
• Just the Docs for Jekyll
• GitBook

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 from the scientific name for Domesticated Ferrets: Mustela putorius furo.

A ferret is actually a really good spirit animal for this project: cute, small, steals little things from various places, and hisses at you when you try to make it do things it doesn't like.

I plan on commissioning a logo for this project (or making one myself) consisting of a cute ferret. Please reach out if you're interested!

Used By

I'm being told that mentioning who uses $thing is a good way to promote $thing.

• urllib3 -- THE first adopter of Furo.
• attrs (also one of the early adopters!)
• psycopg3
• pip
• packaging

I'm also a maintainer on the last two, so... that covers responsible disclosure. :)

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.