Kits

The foundation of every project.

Kits are self-contained packages with blocks, settings and design tokens – the core stays unchanged and updatable.

Kits

Nine kits – design, blocks and data structure to start with.

A kit is the foundation of a project: design, blocks, website settings, lists and detail pages, structured data, starter content and languages. You adjust its design in the style editor; create your own kits with kit:create.

Neutral · toolkit

Kit “Basis”

Starting point for new projects: four navigations, seven design presets, dark mode.
Breakpoint-free

Kit “Fluid”

Type, spacing and grid scale smoothly with every screen width.
Magazine & association

Kit “Editorial”

Masthead, sections and strong lead stories for associations and culture.
Less, but better

Kit “Essenz”

Functional minimalism with a single signal colour and cards like device panels.
Medical practice

Kit “Praxis”

Consultation hours, practice details and encrypted inboxes for prescription and referral requests.
Organic & calm

Kit “Nature”

For farms, farm shops, nurseries, nature conservation and outdoor – with generated landscapes for every season.
Contemporary & confident

Kit “Modern”

Large grotesque type, bold colour blocks and a bento grid – for studios, consultancies and companies.
Glass, legibility first

Kit “Glas”

Frosted glass over a soft colour field – opaque when transparency is reduced.
Starting point

Starter kit

The smallest complete kit for your own development – commented in eleven sections.

Light, dark, mobile

On every device.

Click to enlarge. The demo content is fictional.

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Kit “Essenz” in dark mode
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Kit “Editorial” in dark mode
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Kit “Nature” in its dark “forest night” mode
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Kit “Nature” with the “autumn” preset
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Kit “Modern” in dark mode
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Kit “Glas” in dark mode

Built in

Budgets and accessibility.

Budgets

Home page baseline under 30 KB CSS and under 8 KB JavaScript; block CSS only loads where the block is used.
WCAG 2.2 AA

Contrast is checked in the style editor; presets are tuned for light and dark.
Local fonts

All fonts are loaded from your own server.
kit:create

New kit as a copy of a template – with its own prefix, blocks and settings.

Anatomy of a kit

What a kit contains.

Using the “Essenz” kit as an example: one folder with clear responsibilities – and seven layers that together form the foundation of a project.

Folder

themes/essenz/
theme.phpblocks, settings, SEO, conditional CSS
design.phpdesign tokens and presets
functions.phphelpers essenz_*
seed.phpstarter content
blocks/one PHP template per block
faq.php
hero.php
templates/layout, error, partials/
assets/sources, built to public/themes/essenz
css/
js/
lang/en.php, site/en.php
tools/demo.php, demo-content.php, contrast.php
docs/manual.phpchapters for the editor manual
README.md

Layers

Design

Design tokens, presets and navigation variants – adjustable in the style editor.
Blocks

Fields and one PHP template per block.
Data structure

Website form, lists and detail pages.
SEO

Titles, descriptions and JSON-LD.
Starter content

Pages, tables and images on first start.
Languages

Fixed texts via lt() with translations.
Logic

Helper functions with their own prefix.

Layer by layer

Real excerpts from the “Essenz” kit.

Design

Every token becomes a CSS variable or a class on <html>; the style editor checks contrast pairs. Plus presets such as “Signalorange” or “Graphit” and header variants.

themes/essenz/design.php

$color('accent', 'Signal (Füllfarbe)', '--e-a', '#D85B19', '#F0782F', ['with' => 'background', 'min' => 3],
…
['name' => 'header', 'label' => 'Kopfbereich', 'type' => 'choice', 'class' => 'hdr-{value}', 'default' => 'bar', 'preview' => 'nav',

Blocks

The definition describes fields, variants and structured data; the template renders – with inline editing via $b->edit().

themes/essenz/theme.php · blocks/faq.php

'faq' => [
    'label' => 'Fragen & Antworten', 'icon' => 'question', 'group' => 'Inhalt',
    'variants' => ['split' => 'Überschrift links, Fragen rechts', 'stacked' => 'Untereinander'],

<summary class="faq__q">… <span class="faq__qt"<?= $b->edit("items.$i.q") ?>><?= e($it['q']) ?></span>

Data structure

The “Website” form defines the central details – name, address, hours; blocks and templates read them with setting(). Detail pages are a template per data table.

themes/essenz/theme.php

'settings' => [
    'title' => 'Website',
    'groups' => [
        ['id' => 'stammdaten', 'label' => 'Stammdaten', 'fields' => [
            ['name' => 'org_name', 'label' => 'Name (Unternehmen, Verein, Büro …)', 'type' => 'text', 'required' => true,

SEO

Which settings feed titles, descriptions and preview images – and which function provides the organisation as JSON-LD. Blocks declare their own data (e.g. FAQPage).

themes/essenz/theme.php

'seo' => [
    'home_title' => 'site_title',
    'title_suffix' => 'site_title_suffix',
    'title_suffix_fallback' => 'org_name',
    'description' => 'default_meta_description',
    'og_image' => 'og_default_image',
],
'jsonld' => 'essenz_jsonld',
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'jsonld' => ['type' => 'faq', 'items' => 'items', 'question' => 'q', 'answer' => 'a'],

Starter content

On the first request of a new website, the kit seeds settings and pages – and optionally more, such as sample pages with tables and images.
themes/essenz/seed.php
```
'after' => function () {
    require_once __DIR__ . '/tools/demo-content.php';
    essenz_demo_install();
},
```
Languages

Fixed texts are written in German in the template and output via lt() in the page’s language.
templates/layout.php · lang/site/en.php
```
<a class="skip" href="#main"><?= e(lt('Zum Inhalt springen')) ?></a>

'Datenschutz' => 'Privacy',
```

Logic

Helpers with the kit’s prefix – kit:create renames it automatically for derived kits.

themes/essenz/functions.php

function essenz_name(bool $short = false): string
{
    $name = trim((string) setting('org_name'));
    $shortName = trim((string) setting('short_name'));
    if ($short && $shortName !== '') return $shortName;
    return $name !== '' ? $name : ($shortName !== '' ? $shortName : site_name());
}

Starter kit

Anatomy of the starter kit.

The complete folder – theme.php is split into eleven commented sections.

themes/starter

themes/starter/
assets/
css/
_base.cssreset, typography, sections, buttons
_tokens.cssdesign tokens + roles, light/dark
blocks.cssonly with sample blocks
core.cssvariables for core blocks
site.cssalways loaded
js/
site.jsProgressive Enhancement
video.jstwo-click video
blocks/
cards.php
cta.php
downloads.php
faq.php
hero.php
text.php
text_image.php
video.php
lang/
site/
en.php
en.php
templates/
partials/
editor.phpeditor mount
footer.php
header.php
section.php
video-embed.phptwo-click, MP4, poster
error.php
layout.php
maintenance.php
offline.php
tools/
contrast.phpWCAG check
demo-content.phphome page + subpage
build.mjsoptional build hook
CHANGELOG.md
composer.jsonstub “klxm-studio-kit” (package install planned)
functions.phphelpers starter_*
LICENSE
README.md
seed.phpstarter content
theme.phpdefinition in 11 commented sections

theme.php · § 1–11

§ 1 Meta · § 2 Sections

Name, version, core version; backgrounds and containers.
§ 3 SEO & JSON-LD · § 4 Project

Titles, descriptions, organisation; terms, checks, app icon.
§ 5 Assets · § 6 Design

CSS/JS only where needed; design tokens, presets, navigation variants, light/dark.
§ 7 Website · § 8 Blocks · § 9 Data

Central form; sample blocks plus core blocks; lists and detail pages.
§ 10 Starter content · § 11 Languages

Home page and subpage; translations in lang/.

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Starter kit home page (demo)

Starter kit

Your own kit in a few steps.

The starter kit is the smallest complete kit: system font, one accent colour, light and dark, six sample blocks plus video and downloads – home page ≈ 15.7 KB CSS and 0.4 KB JavaScript.

Get the source

git

git clone https://github.com/klxm/studio.git
cd studio

02
Create a kit

A copy of the starter kit (default) with its own prefix for functions and settings; --from picks another kit as template.
shell
```
php bin/console kit:create meinkit
php bin/console kit:create meinkit --from=basis   # oder ein anderes Kit
```
Adjust tokens and blocks

theme.php is split into eleven commented sections: § 6 design tokens, § 8 blocks (fields + template in blocks/), § 11 languages in lang/.
04
Build

Copies the sources from assets/ to public/themes/meinkit and minifies them.
shell
```
cd tools && pnpm run build && cd ..
```
05
Check

Health check (“kit compatible”) and contrast of all presets against WCAG 2.2 AA, light and dark.
shell
```
php bin/console health
php themes/meinkit/tools/contrast.php
```

Starter kit on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

Contact

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A demo, use in your agency or technical questions – we answer personally.

Get in touch Call us

KLXM Crossmedia GmbH
Am Schürmannshütt 40g
47441 Moers
Germany

Phone: +49 2841 889998-0
Email: info@klxm.de
Website: klxm.de (opens in a new tab)

The foundation of every project.

Kit “Basis”

Kit “Fluid”

Kit “Editorial”

Kit “Essenz”

Kit “Praxis”

Kit “Nature”

Kit “Modern”

Kit “Glas”

Starter kit

Budgets

WCAG 2.2 AA

Local fonts

kit:create

Design

Blocks

Data structure

SEO

Starter content

Languages

Logic

Get the source

Create a kit

Adjust tokens and blocks

Build

Check