Press

What you can use and how¶

The Ehundu logo and the Nidel illustrations can be used as they are, unmodified, to talk about Ehundu or link to the project: in an article, in a talk, in a list of tools or in a site built with it. There is no need to ask for permission. Unmodified means without changing their colours, without distorting them and without adding anything to them.

For any other use, such as a modified version, a product or another project's image, please ask us first through the contact page.

Ehundu's MIT licence covers the code and the documentation, not these files: the logo and the illustrations belong to Paigar, which reserves all rights to them.

Logo

The logo is an “e” drawn with the thread that comes out of the eye of a needle. It comes in horizontal and vertical versions, with the Spanish tagline “generador de sitios estáticos” (“static site generator”) and without it. Use the colour version on a light background and the negative one on a dark background.

All of them are available as SVG, which scales up without losing sharpness, and as PNG with a transparent background, for programs that cannot open SVG.

Horizontal with tagline In colour, for light backgrounds

SVG (Horizontal with tagline, in colour, for light backgrounds) PNG (Horizontal with tagline, in colour, for light backgrounds)
Horizontal with tagline Negative, for dark backgrounds

SVG (Horizontal with tagline, negative, for dark backgrounds) PNG (Horizontal with tagline, negative, for dark backgrounds)
Horizontal without tagline In colour, for light backgrounds

SVG (Horizontal without tagline, in colour, for light backgrounds) PNG (Horizontal without tagline, in colour, for light backgrounds)
Horizontal without tagline Negative, for dark backgrounds

SVG (Horizontal without tagline, negative, for dark backgrounds) PNG (Horizontal without tagline, negative, for dark backgrounds)
Vertical with tagline In colour, for light backgrounds

SVG (Vertical with tagline, in colour, for light backgrounds) PNG (Vertical with tagline, in colour, for light backgrounds)
Vertical with tagline Negative, for dark backgrounds

SVG (Vertical with tagline, negative, for dark backgrounds) PNG (Vertical with tagline, negative, for dark backgrounds)
Vertical without tagline In colour, for light backgrounds

SVG (Vertical without tagline, in colour, for light backgrounds) PNG (Vertical without tagline, in colour, for light backgrounds)
Vertical without tagline Negative, for dark backgrounds

SVG (Vertical without tagline, negative, for dark backgrounds) PNG (Vertical without tagline, negative, for dark backgrounds)
Full symbol With the needle and the loose thread

SVG (Full symbol, with the needle and the loose thread) PNG (Full symbol, with the needle and the loose thread)
Compact symbol Without the dangling thread

SVG (Compact symbol, without the dangling thread) PNG (Compact symbol, without the dangling thread)
Minimal symbol A single colour, for very small sizes

SVG (Minimal symbol, a single colour, for very small sizes) PNG (Minimal symbol, a single colour, for very small sizes)
The symbol, without the name, is for when the name does not fit or already appears next to it: an avatar, an icon, a thumbnail. The minimal one has a single colour and is meant for the smallest sizes.

Download the whole logo ZIP · 0.9 MB

Nidel

Nidel is the dog who carries the needle in the logo. He was in a haystack the day Juanjo adopted him, and his name sounds like needle: it was, quite literally, finding a needle in a haystack.

There are twenty poses, as PNG with a transparent background. The originals measure between 1,312 and 1,536 px on their long side.

Portrait PNG (Portrait)
Lying down PNG (Lying down)
Sitting PNG (Sitting)
Standing PNG (Standing)
With the yarn ball PNG (With the yarn ball)
Leaping PNG (Leaping)
Resting PNG (Resting)
Sleeping PNG (Sleeping)
Pulling the thread PNG (Pulling the thread)
With the laptop PNG (With the laptop)
Tangled PNG (Tangled)
In the tangle PNG (In the tangle)
Surprised PNG (Surprised)
Thinking PNG (Thinking)
With a web page PNG (With a web page)
Peeking PNG (Peeking)
Waving PNG (Waving)
Looking up PNG (Looking up)
Sniffing PNG (Sniffing)
Looking for the needle PNG (Looking for the needle)

Download all twenty poses ZIP · 30.2 MB

Colours and typefaces

The five colours of the logo, exactly as they appear in its files, and the typefaces of this website.

Red #c24d3d RGB 194, 77, 61 The colour of the logo's thread and of Nidel's collar.
Ink #1f1f1f RGB 31, 31, 31 The name and the needle, on a light background.
Cream #f8f5ef RGB 248, 245, 239 The name and the needle, on a dark background. It is also the background of this website.
Warm grey #55504a RGB 85, 80, 74 The tagline, on a light background.
Sand #cfc8be RGB 207, 200, 190 The tagline, on a dark background.

Schibsted Grotesk The headings of this website. Licence (Schibsted Grotesk)
IBM Plex Sans The body text. Licence (IBM Plex Sans)
IBM Plex Mono Code and technical details. Licence (IBM Plex Mono)

All three are free, under the SIL Open Font License, and this website serves them itself.

Ehundu in a few words

Three texts to copy and paste, from shortest to longest. Use them as they are or adapt them.

In one line

Ehundu is an open-source static site generator written in PHP that can also build a site from a web process, on ordinary shared hosting.

In a paragraph

Ehundu is an open-source static site generator, written in PHP and released under the MIT licence. It takes a folder with content in Markdown, data in YAML and Twig templates, and produces plain HTML that can be hosted on any server. What sets it apart is that it does not only run from the command line. An editing tool can use the same library to build and publish the site within a web request, on ordinary shared PHP hosting. The project format is in Spanish and, since version 1.0, it is a stable contract.

In detail

Ehundu (Basque for “to weave”) is an open-source static site generator written in PHP 8.4 and released under the MIT licence by Paigar. A site is a folder of files, with content in Markdown, data in YAML, templates in Twig and images as they are. Ehundu builds it into plain HTML and uploads it to a folder, over FTP or SFTP, or to S3-compatible storage, sending only what has changed. Unlike other generators, it is designed to build from a web process too, on shared hosting and without running external programs, so an editing tool can publish a change right away. It handles multilingual sites, produces PDFs of the pages that ask for them, schedules publication and rebuilds only what a change affects. Its format, in Spanish on purpose, has been stable since version 1.0, and it has no plugins and runs no code of a site's own.

Key facts

Current version: 1.1
What it is: A static site generator.
First stable release: 1.0.0, on 2 November 2026.
Licence: MIT, for the code and the documentation. The logo and the Nidel illustrations belong to Paigar (see above).
Requirements: PHP 8.4 or later, with no unusual extensions or external programs.
Installation: composer require ehundu/ehundu, or the ehundu.phar file of each release.
Format: In Spanish. A project is a folder with Markdown, YAML and Twig templates.
Name: “To weave”, in Basque. It is pronounced roughly “eh-OON-doo”.
Author: A project of Paigar (opens in a new tab), based in Bilbao, Spain.
Links: ehundu.com, GitHub (opens in a new tab) and Packagist (opens in a new tab).

Press release

2 November 2026

Ehundu 1.0, the first stable release. What it is, what it promises from now on and where to get it.

Read the press release

Contact

For an interview, a question or a permission, write to us with the contact form or at ehundu@paigar.eu. If you have found a bug or want to ask for something in the engine, please open an issue on GitHub (opens in a new tab).