# Beautiful Jekyll (Static site themes)

> Beautiful Jekyll is a free, open-source static site theme built with Jekyll. Build a beautiful and simple website in literally minutes. It has 5,825 GitHub stars and is released under the MIT license. A live demo is linked from this page.

Beautiful Jekyll is a ready-to-use template to help you create a beautiful website quickly. Perfect for personal sites, blogs, or simple project websites. Check out a demo of what you'll get after just two minutes. You can also look at my personal website or my consulting website to see it in use, or see examples of websites other people created using this theme.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/daattali/beautiful-jekyll |
| Built with | Jekyll |
| Live demo | https://beautifuljekyll.com |
| GitHub template repository | no |
| GitHub stars | 5,825 |
| License | MIT |
| Language | HTML |
| Official | no |
| Category | Static site themes |
| Latest release | 6.0.1 (Jun 8, 2023) |
| Last commit | May 25, 2026 |

## Get started

### Copy with degit

```sh
npx degit daattali/beautiful-jekyll my-site
cd my-site
bundle install
bundle exec jekyll serve
```

### Or clone with git

```sh
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/daattali/beautiful-jekyll.git my-site
```

Commercial use depends on the MIT license. Sources: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/creating-and-managing-repositories/creating-a-repository-from-a-template, https://github.com/Rich-Harris/degit

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