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+# Hugo Serif Theme
+
+Serif is a beautiful small business theme for Hugo. It contains content types for the archetypical small business website. The theme is fully responsive, blazing fast and artfully illustrated.
+
+- Services (Content Type)
+- Team (Content Type)
+- Testimonials (Content Type)
+- Features (Data)
+- SCSS (Hugo Pipelines)
+- Responsive design
+- Responsive menu managed in `config.toml`
+- 100/100 Google Lighthouse speed score
+- Under 30KB without images or 80KB with images and illustrations ⚡
+- Robust example content included
+- Royalty free illustrations included
+- Deploy to Netlify
+
+![Hugo Serif Theme screenshot](docs/images/hugo-serif-screenshot.png)
+
+## Installation
+
+Inside the folder of your Hugo site run:
+
+    $ cd themes
+    $ git clone https://github.com/jugglerx/hugo-serif-theme.git
+
+For more information read the official [setup guide](//gohugo.io/overview/installing/) of Hugo.
+
+
+## Getting started
+
+After installing the Serif theme successfully it requires a just a few more steps to get your site finally running.
+
+
+### Adding example content
+
+The fastest way to get started is to copy the example content. Copy the contents of the `exampleSite` folder to the root folder of your Hugo site. This theme comes with content for the following content types: `services`, `team`, `testimonials` and includes JSON data for `features` and `contact`. It also includes the `config.toml` file which has an example menu.
+
+## Running Hugo
+
+After installing the theme, generate the Hugo site.
+
+```
+hugo
+```
+
+Hugo's built-in local server.
+
+```
+hugo server
+```
+
+Now enter [`localhost:1313`](http://localhost:1313) in the address bar of your browser.