pollen VS nord

So frameworks like https://www.pollen.style/ are doing this. Personally I still prefer the tailwind approach.

I do think that the real value of Tailwind comes from the utility classes, rather than css-in-html paradigm. You could achieve the same, for example, with Pollen.css [0] or Open Props [1].

[0] https://github.com/heybokeh/pollen

[1] https://github.com/argyleink/open-props

Tailwind is a great option to look into, I really enjoy it, but if you want something a bit more in-between, you can check out frameworks like https://www.pollen.style. There you get a framework of consistent CSS variables you can use, while still writing all your vanilla CSS yourself with full control of everything.

It uses UnoCSS (think TailwindCSS but super customizeable) with Pollen (which is similar to open props).

Very similar to Pollen (https://www.pollen.style), though it looks a little more complicated.

IMO the main value of Tailwind is that it's a step function over your units and colors, which helps bring better consistency and dev speed to UI implementation.

Tailwind's "write class names instead of CSS" approach makes sense in the component-based systems most apps are built in these days, where pretty much any repeated markup will be turned into a component. It performs better than scoped styles and is less complicated.

A CSS variable approach like Open Props or Pollen is, in my experience, better if you're not using a component-based system (ie. conventional HTML) and therefore have repeated markup patterns. Having a simple class name to apply to repeated markup is much more maintainable than trying to copy/paste a long tailwind string around.

Pollen and Open Props are two popular examples of such token first frameworks. If you are not familiar with CSS Custom Properties (also called CSS variables), I recently wrote about how to use them to create a CSS Style API layer.

In the last few years, a new set of frameworks with a radically different concept drew the attention of frontend developers. These frameworks are now extremely popular in the frontend world, and you’re likely already familiar with them: Tailwind CSS and Pollen.

For color values, refer here, https://github.com/nordtheme/nord

I'm more of a Nord kind of guy

It could have been a nord-like white, less blinding yet impressing anyway.

I would say the color theme and the background. All the colors are taken from this website https://www.nordtheme.com/

NORD?

Not sure how much this will help, but the project maintainer gave this answer. https://github.com/arcticicestudio/nord/issues/130

Hey there! I spent the last weekend making a custom theme for Jellyfin based on Nord. If you're interested or want to help test it, I have a PR open here: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/pull/4207

I have spent hours over the pst two days trying to get it to write decent code. The first attempt was feeding it a css file for a theme for logseq. I asked it to swap the colors with colors from Nord theme. I was suprised it did it. And at fist glance it looked good. On a closer look I realized it was just replacing the color with a random color from Nord theme. Give in mind I was also feeding it documentation from Nord theme website and github repo. As well as example ports of the Nord theme for vscodium, neovim, emacs.