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 2023 Apr Project Features Stars Activity Rating
2 - 2 Tailwind CSS Speciallized CSS PostCSS 77,985 8.8 11.73%
3 ↑ 4 normalize.css Base Reset Normalize CSS 51,787 0.0 7.79%
8 - 8 Pure Lightweight CSS 23,387 7.1 3.52%
13 - 13 tachyons General Purpose CSS 11,579 7.6 1.74%
16 - 16 98.css Speciallized CSS 8,551 7.0 1.29%
17 - 17 Water.css Class-less CSS 8,174 0.0 1.23%
18 - 18 Tufte CSS Speciallized CSS 5,790 0.0 0.87%
19 - 19 modern-normalize Base Reset Normalize CSS 5,733 2.1 0.86%
20 - 20 sanitize.css Base Reset Normalize CSS 5,136 0.0 0.77%
28 ↑ 29 ress Base Reset Normalize CSS 1,990 2.3 0.30%
33 ↑↑ 5 38 Chota Lightweight CSS 1,338 2.9 0.20%
34 ↑↑ 36 Cirrus General Purpose CSS 1,319 8.7 0.20%
38 ↑↑ 40 turretcss General Purpose CSS 804 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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