Show HN: Neat, the Minimalist CSS Framework

• Milligram

  23 10,158 0.0 HTML

  A minimalist CSS framework.

  

Thanks for sharing, I love minimalist CSS frameworks that are easy to digest. My go-to for the past ~5 years has been https://milligram.io -- mainly for the grid and basic styling -- although, the author hasn't updated it in a few years. I'm going to give yours a shot!

• Tacit

  5 1,650 7.9 SCSS

  CSS framework for dummies, without a single CSS class: nicely renders properly formatted HTML5 pages

- https://yegor256.github.io/tacit/

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• spark-joy

  37 9,204 6.8 JavaScript

  ✨😂 2000+ ways to add design flair, user delight, and whimsy to your product.

i collect these for fun! adding to my collection https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#dro...

more like this:

  -  https://andybrewer.github.io/mvp/ mvp.css

• Water.css

  33 8,179 0.0 CSS

  A drop-in collection of CSS styles to make simple websites just a little nicer

- https://watercss.kognise.dev/ Small size (< 2kb)

• almond.css

  15 1,131 0.0 JavaScript

  Collection of CSS styles to make simple websites look nicer

- https://github.com/alvaromontoro/almond.css has thin fonts

• new.css

  8 3,899 0.0 HTML

  A classless CSS framework to write modern websites using only HTML.

  

- https://github.com/xz/new.css (https://newcss.net/) 4.8kb sets some sensible defaults and styles your HTML to look reasonable. It's perfect for: A dead-simple blog, Collecting your most used links, Making a simple "about me" site, Rendering markdown-generated HTML

• pico

  65 12,325 9.3 CSS

  Minimal CSS Framework for semantic HTML

  

- https://picocss.com/ Elegant styles for all natives HTML elements without .classes and dark mode automatically enabled.

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• sakura

  15 4,019 6.1 HTML

  :cherry_blossom: a minimal css framework/theme.

- https://github.com/oxalorg/sakura supports extremely easy theming using variables for duotone color scheming. It comes with several existing themes, which can be found in the css folder of this repository.

• spcss

  3 928 1.8 CSS

  A simple, minimal, classless stylesheet for simple HTML pages

• mvp

  18 4,867 4.7 HTML

  MVP.css — Minimalist classless CSS stylesheet for HTML elements

i collect these for fun! adding to my collection https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#dro...

more like this:

  -  https://andybrewer.github.io/mvp/ mvp.css

• fieber

  1 12 6.9 CSS

  Classless and accessible CSS framework

Shameless self-plug: I recently created my own classless CSS framework[1] and would appreciate feedback.

[1]: https://github.com/zichy/fieber

• Picnic CSS

  8 3,772 1.9 CSS

  :handbag: A beautiful CSS library to kickstart your projects

Picnic CSS:

https://picnicss.com/

My own and one of the older ones, almost 10 years ago, see the original Show HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8315616

• latexcss

  1 143 10.0

  Nearly Classless CSS file to give html a latex-like look

Oooh I was going to recommend you add Latex.css to your list (https://github.com/davidrzs/latexcss) but I see you have a fork listed with some pretty good additional features (https://latex.vercel.app/).

I use the former for my Zettelkasten and it looks very nice.

• neatcss

  2 517 7.2 HTML

  Rapidly build efficient sites with Neat, the minimalist css framework.

I thought that was worth drawing attention to, i hope you and project owner don't mind:

https://github.com/codazoda/neatcss/issues/29

• caniuse

  388 5,500 9.5 JavaScript

  Raw browser/feature support data from caniuse.com

After all, the purpose of system-ui [1] "is to allow web content to integrate with the look and feel of the native OS". Seems like a natural for something that's supposed to be minimalist.

system-ui [2] is supported by 96% of web users, so there's no reason not to use it.

[1]: https://w3c.github.io/csswg-drafts/css-fonts-4/#system-ui-de...

[2]: https://caniuse.com/?search=system-ui

• mu

  2 232 10.0 HTML

  The μ css framework — a 1 ko css file. (by BafS)

• csswg-drafts

  70 4,263 9.9 Bikeshed

  CSS Working Group Editor Drafts

  

system-ui is not suitable for general web content. Apps might have an argument for using it, but general web content should not use it. https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3658 has some details (mostly by others, but I chip in towards the end), and I’ve written more in other threads here on HN too which you can search for.

(That `box-sizing: content-box` is a good default might be my most unpopular CSS opinion, but writing off system-ui is probably not too far off it. But I care more about it because it’s one that actually affects users, not just developers. Maybe I should get round to pestering browser makers to improve their defaults for the sans-serif generic family so that “proxy for a maybe-prettier sans-serif” goes away as a reason to use system-ui.)

• Bootstrap

  530 167,414 9.6 JavaScript

  The most popular HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.

  

This is a weirdly contentious issue by web devs, but in my experience, system-ui is fine. It's used as the default in popular frameworks like Bootstrap[1], and most of the teething issues have been solved for a while now.

[1] https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/adf7b8dc4083b6ddc318e...

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