HUGO-GEN-CHROMASTYLES(1)

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💅 hugo-gen-chromastyles — the Hugo Manual, bestie edition

okay so this is hugo-gen-chromastyles(1) from the Hugo Manual, and honestly? she's a little CSS factory and she ate. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

hugo-gen-chromastyles — generate a CSS stylesheet for the Chroma code highlighter 🎨✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

hugo gen chromastyles [flags] [args]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So basically: this command generates a CSS stylesheet for the Chroma code highlighter, for whatever style you ask for. Slay. 💅

And like — you need this stylesheet if markup.highlight.noClasses is disabled in config. Not "should probably", not "if you feel like it". Needed. no cap 🫶

Wanna preview the available styles before you commit? Go look at https://gohugo.io/quick-reference/syntax-highlighting-styles/ — it's giving lookbook, it's giving runway 🌈

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • --classDark="dark" — the class name that --modeSelector uses for dark styles 🌙
  • --classLight="light" — the class name that --modeSelector uses for light styles ☀️
  • -h, --help[=false] — help for chromastyles, aka the "wait what does this do again" button 💖
  • --highlightStyle="" — foreground and background colors for highlighted lines, e.g. --highlightStyle "#fff000 bg:#000fff" ✨
  • --lineNumbersInlineStyle="" — foreground and background colors for inline line numbers, e.g. --lineNumbersInlineStyle "#fff000 bg:#000fff" 🔢
  • --lineNumbersTableStyle="" — foreground and background colors for table line numbers, e.g. --lineNumbersTableStyle "#fff000 bg:#000fff" 🧮
  • --mode="" — style mode, and the valid vibes are "light" and "dark" 🌗
  • --modeSelector[=false] — scope selectors under a top level mode class, e.g. .dark .chroma 🎯
  • --omitClassComments[=false] — omit CSS class comment prefixes in the generated CSS 🙈
  • --omitEmpty[=false] — omit empty CSS rules. heads up bestie: this one is deprecated, no longer needed 💀
  • --style="friendly" — the highlighter style. default is literally "friendly" because she's nice like that 🍓
ngl, --omitEmpty is deprecated and no longer needed — don't come for me, that's just what the page says 😭

✨ OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS ✨

these are the ones she got from her parent hugo-gen, main character inheritance energy 👑

  • --clock="" — set the clock used by Hugo, e.g. --clock 2021-11-06T22:30:00.00+09:00 ⏰
  • --config="" — config file (default is hugo.yaml|json|toml) 📄
  • --configDir="config" — config dir 📁
  • -d, --destination="" — filesystem path to write files to 🗂️
  • -e, --environment="" — build environment 🌱
  • --ignoreVendorPaths="" — ignores any _vendor for module paths matching the given Glob pattern 🚫
  • --logLevel="" — log level, and your choices are debug|info|warn|error 📢
  • --noBuildLock[=false] — don't create .hugo_build.lock file 🔓
  • --quiet[=false] — build in quiet mode 🤫
  • -M, --renderToMemory[=false] — render to memory (mostly useful when running the server) 🧠
  • -s, --source="" — filesystem path to read files relative from 📍
  • --themesDir="" — filesystem path to themes directory 🎀

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

and that's the whole page, bestie, we got there 💜 fr fr this was Hugo 0.169.0, dated Oct 2026 — iconic, no notes, periodt ✨👑

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