The HFC Base theme (originally HFCCBase) is a starter theme originally derived from the Drupal 5 version Basic theme by Raincity Studios. Since that time, these two themes have diverged widely, as new features have been added to Basic, while this theme has gone its own way.
This theme is intended to be a base theme for multiple projects. Styles placed in this theme should not be opinionated, and should be applicable for most cases on any site. These global definitions can be overridden by site themes or for specific uses by using more precise selectors.
The HFC Base theme is starting point for Drupal theme work at Henry Ford College and for other sites I've built outside of HFC. The goal of this theme is to extend the stable9 them to provide just enough stable, reusable components to provide a starting point for new design work. Many of the changes provided by the current version of this theme were copied or derived from classy.
When creating a sub-theme, themers will generally want to copy some of the CSS files and overwrite them completely, adding new CSS files in the sub-theme to style the headers, footers and menus, etc.
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