The Best CSS Frameworks

Based on github stars

Top 40 Most Popular CSS Frameworks
by number of GitHub stars

 

Rank Change 2024 May Project Features Stars Activity Rating
1 - 1 Bootstrap General Purpose SCSS 172,297 9.5 25.66%
2 - 2 Tailwind CSS Speciallized CSS PostCSS 87,661 9.9 13.05%
3 - 3 normalize.css Base Reset Normalize CSS 53,113 0.0 7.91%
4 - 4 Semantic UI General Purpose LESS 51,164 2.2 7.62%
5 - 5 Bulma General Purpose SASS 49,751 8.3 7.41%
6 - 6 Materialize Material Design SCSS 38,879 0.0 5.79%
7 - 7 Foundation General Purpose SCSS 29,754 7.6 4.43%
8 - 8 Pure Lightweight CSS 23,713 8.5 3.53%
9 - 9 NES.css Speciallized SCSS 21,030 0.0 3.13%
10 - 10 UI kit General Purpose SCSS LESS 18,426 9.4 2.74%
11 12 Primer General Purpose SCSS 12,683 8.6 1.89%
12 13 tachyons General Purpose CSS 11,667 7.6 1.74%
13 14 Spectre.css General Purpose SCSS 11,342 0.0 1.69%
14 ↑↑ 16 98.css Speciallized CSS 10,267 3.9 1.53%
15 - 15 Milligram Lightweight SCSS 10,233 0.0 1.52%
16 17 Water.css Class-less CSS 8,426 0.0 1.25%
17 ↑↑ 19 modern-normalize Base Reset Normalize CSS 6,726 6.5 1.00%
18 - 18 Tufte CSS Speciallized CSS 6,155 3.2 0.92%
19 20 sanitize.css Base Reset Normalize CSS 5,261 2.1 0.78%
20 21 Gutenberg Speciallized SCSS 4,872 0.0 0.73%
21 22 MUI Material Design SCSS 4,513 0.0 0.67%
22 23 sakura Class-less SCSS 4,237 3.4 0.63%
23 24 Picnic CSS Lightweight SCSS 3,866 7.7 0.58%
24 25 Fomantic-UI General Purpose LESS 3,644 9.2 0.54%
25 26 minireset.css Base Reset Normalize SASS 2,789 2.6 0.42%
26 ↑↑ 28 ress Base Reset Normalize CSS 2,042 2.3 0.30%
27 - 27 Wing Lightweight Stylus 2,012 0.0 0.30%
28 29 inuitcss Base Reset Normalize SCSS 1,853 0.0 0.28%
29 ↑↑ 31 Tacit Class-less SCSS 1,743 8.8 0.26%
30 - 30 Marx Class-less SCSS Stylus 1,691 1.6 0.25%
31 32 Blaze UI General Purpose SCSS 1,555 3.5 0.23%
32 33 Chota Lightweight CSS 1,484 3.8 0.22%
33 34 Cirrus General Purpose CSS 1,399 8.1 0.21%
34 35 Base General Purpose SCSS LESS 1,269 0.0 0.19%
35 36 Propeller Material Design SCSS 1,125 0.0 0.17%
36 37 Bojler Speciallized SCSS 1,035 0.0 0.15%
37 38 turretcss General Purpose CSS 799 0.0 0.12%
38 39 PatternFly General Purpose SCSS LESS 740 9.5 0.11%
39 40 HiQ General Purpose PostCSS 319 5.8 0.05%
40 41 Cavepaint CSS Less 29 0.0 0.00%
  • 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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