# Awesome CSS Frameworks

List of awesome CSS frameworks.
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## 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 ~5KB.

- 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 - 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

- Blaze UI - Open source modular toolkit providing great structure for building websites quickly with a scalable and maintainable foundation.
  Demo, Docs, Repo | #SCSS

- 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 - UI components used by Stack Overflow.
  Docs, Repo | #LESS

- HiQ - Simple CSS foundation with responsive typography and input styling.
  Docs, Repo | #PostCSS

## Material Design

- Material Components Web - Modular and customizable Material Design UI components for the web.
  Demo, Docs, Repo | #SCSS

- 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 - 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

- 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

- inuitcss - Extensible, scalable, Sass-based, OOCSS framework for large and long-lasting UI projects.
  Repo | #SCSS

- unsemantic - Fluid grid for mobile, tablet, and desktop.
  Demo, Docs, Repo

- Propeller - Front-end responsive framework based on Google’s Material Design standards & Bootstrap.
  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

- turretcss - Responsive front-end framework for accessible and semantic websites.
  Demo, Docs, Repo | #CSS

- Centurion - Web-based framework for rapid prototyping and building larger web projects.
  Docs, Repo

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