The Best CSS Frameworks

Based on github stars

Top 40 Most Popular CSS Frameworks
by number of GitHub stars

 

Rank Change 2023 Apr Project Features Stars Activity Rating
1 - 1 Bootstrap General Purpose SCSS 167,414 9.6 25.16%
2 - 2 Tailwind CSS Speciallized CSS PostCSS 78,370 9.4 11.78%
3 ↑ 4 normalize.css Base Reset Normalize CSS 51,836 0.0 7.79%
4 ↓ 3 Semantic UI General Purpose LESS 50,990 0.0 7.66%
5 - 5 Bulma General Purpose SASS 48,572 8.4 7.30%
6 - 6 Materialize Material Design SCSS 38,853 0.0 5.84%
7 - 7 Foundation General Purpose SCSS 29,602 6.4 4.45%
8 - 8 Pure Lightweight CSS 23,395 7.5 3.52%
9 - 9 NES.css Speciallized SCSS 20,284 0.0 3.05%
10 - 10 UI kit General Purpose SCSS LESS 18,103 9.6 2.72%
11 - 11 Material Components Web Material Design SCSS 17,076 7.4 2.57%
12 - 12 Primer General Purpose SCSS 12,454 8.5 1.87%
13 - 13 tachyons General Purpose CSS 11,585 7.6 1.74%
14 - 14 Spectre.css General Purpose SCSS 11,290 0.0 1.70%
15 - 15 Milligram Lightweight SCSS 10,158 0.0 1.53%
16 - 16 98.css Speciallized CSS 8,584 6.3 1.29%
17 - 17 Water.css Class-less CSS 8,179 0.0 1.23%
18 - 18 Tufte CSS Speciallized CSS 5,790 0.0 0.87%
19 - 19 modern-normalize Base Reset Normalize CSS 5,742 2.1 0.86%
20 - 20 sanitize.css Base Reset Normalize CSS 5,136 0.0 0.77%
21 - 21 Gutenberg Speciallized SCSS 4,770 0.0 0.72%
22 - 22 MUI Material Design SCSS 4,513 0.0 0.68%
23 - 23 sakura Class-less SCSS 4,022 6.1 0.60%
24 - 24 Picnic CSS Lightweight SCSS 3,772 1.9 0.57%
25 - 25 Fomantic-UI General Purpose LESS 3,469 8.8 0.52%
26 ↑ 27 minireset.css Base Reset Normalize SASS 2,738 0.0 0.41%
27 ↑ 28 Wing Lightweight Stylus 2,009 0.0 0.30%
28 ↑ 29 ress Base Reset Normalize CSS 1,990 2.3 0.30%
29 ↑ 30 inuitcss Base Reset Normalize SCSS 1,854 0.0 0.28%
30 ↑ 31 Marx Class-less SCSS Stylus 1,680 4.0 0.25%
31 ↑ 32 Tacit Class-less SCSS 1,651 7.8 0.25%
32 ↑ 33 Blaze UI General Purpose SCSS 1,549 3.5 0.23%
33 ↑↑ 5 38 Chota Lightweight CSS 1,336 2.9 0.20%
34 ↑↑ 36 Cirrus General Purpose CSS 1,323 8.7 0.20%
35 - 35 Base General Purpose SCSS LESS 1,249 0.0 0.19%
36 ↑ 37 Propeller Material Design SCSS 1,131 0.0 0.17%
37 ↑↑ 39 Bojler Speciallized SCSS 1,018 0.0 0.15%
38 ↑↑ 40 turretcss General Purpose CSS 804 0.0 0.12%
39 ↑↑ 41 PatternFly General Purpose SCSS LESS 675 9.2 0.10%
40 ↑↑ 42 HiQ General Purpose PostCSS 309 3.7 0.05%
  • Rating - the percentage of stars of a particular project from the total number.
  • Activity - a relative number between 0 and 10 representing the commits activity of a project.
    9+ meaning that the project is amongst the top 10% of most actively developed projects.
    5+ meaning that the project is amongst the top 50% of most active projects.

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