6 Download or clone [Bootswatch](https://github.com/thomaspark/bootswatch).
11 In terminal, navigate to `/bootswatch/swatchmaker/` and run the command `make bootstrap` to download the latest version of Bootstrap.
14 3. Install Bootstrap Dependencies
16 If you haven't before, [install npm](https://npmjs.org/). Next, navigate to `/bootswatch/swatchmaker/bootstrap/` and type `npm install` to locally install Bootstrap dependencies (uglify-js, jshint, recess, connect, hogan.js).
19 4. Customize Bootstrap
21 Make your customizations to the two files found in `/bootswatch/swatchmaker/swatch/`: `variables.less` and `bootswatch.less`. You can also copy over the less files from an existing theme and modify them.
24 5. Build Customized Bootstrap
26 In `/bootswatch/swatchmaker/`, run `make bootswatch`. The compiled CSS files will be created in `/bootswatch/swatchmaker/swatch/`.
28 You can run the watcher to automatically build Bootstrap whenever changes are saved with `make watcher` (Requires `gem install directory_watcher`).
33 If you want to reset `variables.less` and `bootswatch.less` to defaults, run `make default`.