// Secure Astro portfolio & blog theme
Ship a portfolio worth its weight in gold.
Auric is a premium gold-on-dark Astro theme for developers & creatives. Static-fast, secure by default, with a full Markdown blog — and everything you edit lives in one file.
instant download · unlimited personal & client sites · 14-day money-back
01 Why Auric
Nothing to fight, nothing to hide.
No trackers to appease, no page builder to fight, no mystery JavaScript to audit. Auric ships the way the web was supposed to feel.
Instant by design
Pure static output with almost no JavaScript shipped. No spinners, no layout shift — your work just appears.
Secure by default
A strict Content-Security-Policy and hardening headers — green on securityheaders.com before you change a single line.
Private, actually
Fonts are self-hosted and nothing phones home. Analytics are optional, cookieless, and off by default.
A real blog, included
Astro content collections with tags, cover images, RSS and a sitemap — plus instant full-text search that opens as a modal, tag pages and an AI-ready llms.txt. Write Markdown or MDX, hit deploy.
One-file setup
Your name, intro, skills and links live in a single config file. No spelunking through components to make it yours.
Kind to every visitor
Light and dark mode with a remembered toggle, reduced-motion support, a no-JS fallback — it reads beautifully on any screen, for anyone.
02 The tour
What you actually get, screen by screen.
Hero, about, skills, journal, contact — plus a complete blog. All in the same warm gold-on-dark finish, all editable from one config.
Find any post — without leaving the page
Hit the magnifier or a keyboard shortcut, and a search modal opens right there: instant, static, zero backend. Nothing loads until a visitor actually searches, so every other page stays as light as ever.
Show what you do at a glance
Six editable skill cards with icons. Swap the titles and text in the config file and they're yours — no component surgery required.
A blog that invites reading
Post cards with dates, tags and summaries, pulled automatically from your content folder. RSS and sitemap included, so readers and search engines both stay happy.
Documentation disguised as posts
The three included demo posts double as a setup guide and a living Markdown style guide — every heading, list, quote, table and code block, pre-styled and ready to copy.
Close with a conversation
A ready-made contact block: plug in the optional Web3Forms form, or use the obfuscated email button and skip forms — and form spam — entirely.
03 What's inside
What's in the ZIP.
- ✓Complete Astro source code — clean, commented, yours to modify
- ✓Landing page: hero, about, skills, latest posts, contact
- ✓Three demo posts that double as docs and a Markdown style guide
- ✓Instant full-text search (Pagefind) — a modal you open from the nav or a keyboard shortcut — plus tag pages and an AI-ready llms.txt for generative engines
- ✓Optional contact form (Web3Forms) or obfuscated email button
- ✓Editable SVG logo, social image and a generated OG image
- ✓A thorough README: setup, customisation and deployment
Requirements
Node.js 18+ and basic command-line comfort. Host it free on Netlify or Cloudflare Pages — you can be live in minutes.
License
One purchase, unlimited personal & client sites. Modify anything. Just don't resell or redistribute the theme itself. Fonts are under the SIL Open Font License.
Updates
New versions ship to Gumroad — re-download anytime, free.
04 Questions
Common questions.
Do I need to know how to code?
Basic terminal use only: install Node, run two commands. Day-to-day edits — your name, intro, skills, links — are plain text in one config file.
Can I use it for client work?
Yes. One purchase covers unlimited personal and client websites. The only thing you can't do is resell or redistribute the theme itself.
Does it track visitors?
No. Nothing loads from third parties and nothing phones home — unless you deliberately switch on the optional, cookieless analytics.
Can I change the colours and fonts?
Yes. Every colour is a CSS variable, and the fonts are self-hosted files you can swap for any typeface you like. Light and dark mode are both built in — visitors get a toggle, and you pick the default in one line.
Do I get updates?
Yes — whenever a new version ships, just re-download it from your Gumroad library at no extra cost.
What if it's not for me?
Email within 14 days of purchase and you'll get a refund — no drama. It's an instant digital download, so please include your order number.
// One file away
Make it yours.
Unzip, npm install, edit one file, deploy free. That's genuinely the whole process.
$29
instant download · 14-day money-back · unlimited sites