docSkimmer Theme

December 17, 2025 · View on GitHub

docSkimmer is a skimmable minimal theme for MkDocs. Supports MkDocs versions >= 0.16.2.

Screenshot of docSkimmer theme for MkDocs

Figure 1: Screenshot of docSkimmer theme for MkDocs

Features

accessible;
responsive;
valid HTML5 + CSS3;
no fonts (include only what you prefer using extra_css);
no libs - except for a single (~2KB) module (include only what you prefer using extra_javascript);
supports MkDocs configuration features such as google_analytics.

Installation

Clone docSkimmer from GitHub:

$ git clone https://github.com/hfagerlund/mkdocs-docskimmer.git

Or download the required version - refer to: 'Version compatibility'.

(Not on PyPI yet.)

Copy the contents of the mkdocs_docskimmer directory into the MkDocs project root (ie. at the same level as the docs directory).

pip install

Install directly from repository:

$ pip install git+https://github.com/hfagerlund/mkdocs-docskimmer.git@master

Docker

Refer to docker-for-docskimmer.

Usage

Modify the following settings in the 'mkdocs.yml' file:

For docSkimmer v0.3.x, v0.4.x:

# mkdocs.yml:

nav:
    ## add your custom pages hierarchy here

theme:
  name: null
  custom_dir: 'mkdocs_docskimmer'
  include_search_page: true
  search_index_only: false
  static_templates:
  - 404.html

plugins: ['search']

# add theme version number here
extra:
    version: 0.3.x

For docSkimmer v0.2.1:

# mkdocs.yml:

pages:
    ## add your custom pages hierarchy here

theme:
  name: null
  custom_dir: 'mkdocs_docskimmer'
  include_search_page: true
  search_index_only: false
  static_templates:
  - 404.html

plugins: ['search']

extra:
    version: 0.2.1

For docSkimmer v0.2.0:

# mkdocs.yml:

pages:
    ## add your custom pages hierarchy here

theme:
    name: null
    custom_dir: 'mkdocs_docskimmer'

static_templates:
    - 404.html

extra:
    version: 0.2.0

For docSkimmer v0.1.x:

# mkdocs.yml:

pages:
    ## add your custom pages hierarchy here

theme_dir: 'mkdocs_docskimmer'

Version compatibility

docSkimmer theme version(s)	MkDocs version(s)
0.4.0	1.0.4
0.3.1	1.0.4 Template URL filter addition
0.3.0	Pages refactor
0.2.1	0.17.4 0.17.3 0.17.2 0.17.1 0.17.0
0.2.0	0.17.0
0.1.1 0.1.0	0.16.3 0.16.2

Demo

A demo of the docSkimmer theme is available on its documentation homepage.