Frameworks

repo: troxler/awesome-css-frameworks
category: Front-End Development

Awesome CSS Frameworks

List of awesome CSS frameworks.
Feel free to contribute.

Are you looking for React/Vue/Angular UI Component Libraries instead?

Contents

• Base / Reset / Normalize
• Class-less
• Very Lightweight
• General Purpose
• Material Design
• Utility-based
• Specialized
• Stalled Development

Base / Reset / Normalize

• modern-normalize - Normalize browsers' default style.

  Repo
  | #CSS

• ress - Modern CSS reset.

  Repo
  | #CSS

• Natural Selection - Collection of best-practice CSS selectors.

  | #CSS

Class-less

Frameworks that use semantic HTML and do not rely on classes.

• Pico.css - Elegant styles for all native HTML elements, dark mode automatically enabled.

  Demo,
  Docs,
  Repo
  | #SCSS

• MVP.css - Minimalist stylesheet for HTML elements.

  Docs,
  Repo
  | #CSS

• sakura - Minimal classless CSS framework/theme.

  Demo,
  Repo
  | #SCSS

• Simple.css - Lightweight, classless CSS framework.

  Demo,
  Docs,
  Repo
  | #CSS

• Tacit - CSS framework for dummies, without classes.

  Repo
  | #SCSS

Very Lightweight

Frameworks that are smaller than ~10KB.

• Pure - Set of small, responsive CSS modules that you can use in every web project.

  Demo,
  Docs,
  Repo
  | #CSS

• Picnic CSS - Lightweight and beautiful library.

  Demo,
  Docs,
  Repo
  | #SCSS

• Chota - Really small CSS framework.

  Demo,
  Docs,
  Repo
  | #CSS

General Purpose

• Bootstrap - The most popular HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.

  Demo,
  Docs,
  Repo
  | #SCSS

• Bulma - Modern CSS framework based on Flexbox.

  Demo,
  Docs,
  Repo
  | #Sass

• Foundation - The most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world.

  Demo,
  Docs,
  Repo
  | #SCSS

• UIkit - Lightweight and modular front-end framework for developing fast and powerful web interfaces.

  Demo,
  Docs,
  Repo
  | #LESS #SCSS

• Primer - CSS framework that powers GitHub's front-end design.

  Docs,
  Repo
  | #SCSS

• Carbon Components - Component library behind IBM's Carbon Design System.

  Docs,
  Repo
  | #SCSS

• [U.S. Web Design System](https://designsystem.digital.gov/) - Components used by U.S. federal government websites.

  Docs,
  Repo
  | #SCSS

• Fomantic-UI - Build beautiful websites fast, with concise HTML, intuitive javascript, and simplified debugging.

  Docs,
  Repo
  | #LESS

• Cirrus - Component and utility centric SCSS framework designed for rapid prototyping.

  Demo,
  Docs,
  Repo
  | #CSS

• Vanilla Framework - Simple, extensible CSS framework. Written by the Canonical Web Team.

  Demo,
  Docs,
  Repo
  | #SCSS

• PatternFly - UI framework for enterprise web applications.

  Demo,
  Docs,
  Repo
  | #SCSS #LESS

• [Stacks](https://stackoverflow.design/) - UI components used by Stack Overflow.

  Docs,
  Repo
  | #LESS

• HiQ - Simple CSS foundation with responsive typography and input styling.

  Docs,
  Repo
  | #PostCSS

Material Design

• Beer CSS - Build material design interfaces in record time without stress for devs.

  Repo
  | #CSS

• Materialize - Responsive front-end library based on Google's Material Design.

  Docs,
  Repo
  | #SCSS

Utility-based

• [Tailwind CSS](https://tailwindcss.com) - Utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.

  Docs,
  Repo
  | #CSS

• Open Props - CSS custom properties to help accelerate adaptive and consistent design.

  Demo,
  Docs,
  Repo
  | #CSS #PostCSS

Specialized

• NES.css - NES-style CSS Framework.

  Demo,
  Docs,
  Repo
  | #SCSS

• 98.css - CSS library for building interfaces that look like Windows 98.

  Repo
  | #CSS

• Tufte CSS - Style your webpage like Edward Tufte’s handouts.

  Repo
  | #CSS

• Gutenberg - Modern framework to print the web correctly.

  Demo,
  Docs
  | #SCSS

• System.css - Design system for building retro Apple interfaces.

  Repo
  | #PostCSS

• XP.css - CSS library for building interfaces that look like Windows XP.

  Repo
  | #PostCSS

• TuiCss - Library to create MS-DOS interfaces.

  Demo,
  Docs
  | #SCSS

• 7.css - CSS library for building interfaces that look like Windows 7.

  Repo
  | #PostCSS

• Bojler - Email framework for developing responsive and lightweight email templates.

  Docs,
  Repo
  | #SCSS

• Orbit - CSS framework designed for building any kind of radial UI.

  Docs,
  Repo
  | #SCSS

Stalled Development

Frameworks that have not seen any real development for more than about one year or officially have been deprecated.
We are keeping them here for reference/inspiration and hope for a revival.

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• Semantic UI - User interface is the language of the web.

  Docs,
  Repo
  | #LESS

• Material Components Web - Modular and customizable Material Design UI components for the web.

  Demo,
  Docs,
  Repo
  | #SCSS

• Tachyons - Quickly build and design new UI without writing CSS.

  Demo,
  Docs,
  Repo
  | #CSS

• Bourbon - Lightweight Sass tool set.

  Docs,
  Repo
  | #SCSS

• Water.css - Just-add-CSS collection of styles to make simple websites just a little nicer.

  Repo
  | #CSS

• sanitize.css - The best-practices CSS foundation.

  Repo
  | #CSS

• modern-css-reset - Tiny little reset that you can use as the basis of your CSS projects.

  Repo
  | #CSS

• minireset.css - Tiny modern CSS reset.

  Repo
  | #Sass

• CSS Remedy - Start your project with a remedy for the technical debt of CSS.

  | #CSS

• Blaze UI - Open source modular toolkit providing great structure for building websites quickly with a scalable and maintainable foundation.

  Demo,
  Docs,
  Repo
  | #SCSS

• Concise CSS - Give up the bloat. Stop tripping over your classes. Be concise.

  Docs,
  Repo
  | #SCSS

• Responsive Boilerplate - Powerful, accessible, developer friendly framework for building responsive websites.

  Docs,
  Repo
  | #SCSS

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