A free dark template for Joomla 5 and 6 aimed at news sites, magazines and blogs: all core views styled, 36 module positions, self-hosted fonts with no external requests and a reading progress bar.
Signal Dark is a dark template for editorial sites, magazines and blogs, with violet and cyan accents. It is written in plain CSS with custom properties, by The AI Director. The README states that the whole template was written with an AI coding assistant, and it also promotes the author's paid starter kit.
Features
- Every core view is styled: articles, categories, contacts, tags, Smart Search, news feeds and user pages.
- 36 module positions, including hero, featured, ad slots, newsletter and a three-column footer.
- Self-hosted Space Grotesk, Inter and Space Mono fonts, with no external requests.
- Reading progress bar.
- CSS variables for colors, fonts and spacing; an update-safe custom.css file.
- Styled 404 error page and dark form controls.
- Mobile-first responsive layout with hamburger navigation.
Terms
Fully free, GPL-2.0-or-later. GitHub reports the licence as NOASSERTION, but the LICENSE file contains the GPL v2 text.
Compatibility and requirements
- Tested on Joomla 5.4+ and 6.0+.
- PHP 8.1 or newer.
- No update server, so updates are manual.
- One release (1.2.0) and a single maintainer; the repository manifest already reads 1.2.1.
