The Best CSS Frameworks

Based on github stars

Top 40 Most Popular CSS Frameworks
by number of GitHub stars

Filtering projects by: CSS X

Rank Change 2025 Oct Project Features Stars Activity Rating
2 - 2 Tailwind CSS Speciallized CSS PostCSS 97,759 9.6 14.18%
3 - 3 normalize.css Base Reset Normalize CSS 53,522 0.0 7.76%
8 - 8 Pure Lightweight CSS 23,722 8.0 3.44%
12 - 12 tachyons General Purpose CSS 11,726 3.0 1.70%
13 ↑ 14 98.css Speciallized CSS 11,476 4.5 1.66%
16 - 16 Water.css Class-less CSS 8,648 0.0 1.25%
17 - 17 modern-normalize Base Reset Normalize CSS 7,420 2.6 1.08%
18 - 18 Tufte CSS Speciallized CSS 6,572 5.6 0.95%
19 - 19 sanitize.css Base Reset Normalize CSS 5,309 2.1 0.77%
26 - 26 ress Base Reset Normalize CSS 2,079 3.5 0.30%
32 - 32 Chota Lightweight CSS 1,549 0.0 0.22%
33 - 33 Cirrus General Purpose CSS 1,430 4.5 0.21%
38 ↓ 37 turretcss General Purpose CSS 797 0.0 0.12%
  • 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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