Top 9 classless Open-Source Projects

mvp

18 4,864 4.7 HTML

MVP.css — Minimalist classless CSS stylesheet for HTML elements

Project mention: Ask HN: I'm bad at design, which stops me from finishing side projects. Advice? | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-22

Buy a bootstrap theme, they're cheap and they offer a lot out of the box. Better solution than bare tailwind, which actually requires you to know how to design. I used tailwind on my personal website, result was good but I had to do a lot more than if I used a bootstrap theme.
You make your app ui work within the boundaries of your bootstrap theme and you're good for 96% of the design stuff.
If you don't want to even learn bootstrap css classes and stuff, consider https://andybrewer.github.io/mvp/
It's amazing, you drop it and you have a theme based on the html only. I use this mostly for prototyping though
sakura

15 4,019 6.1 HTML

:cherry_blossom: a minimal css framework/theme.

Project mention: The classless and class-light CSS aproaches | dev.to | 2024-01-24
InfluxDB

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latex-css

3 2,686 5.7 HTML

LaTeX.css is a CSS library that makes your website look like a LaTeX document
classless-css

23 1,769 7.5 HTML

A list of classless CSS themes/frameworks with screenshots

Project mention: Pico CSS v2 comes with 380 manually crafted colors | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-24

I dug through a ton of these for several days before finally deciding to just make my own...
All the lesser known ones tend to not be very extensible or themable beyond basic color changes, and they're a little too extreme about pure semantic HTML.
This guy has a really good roundup with last commit and GitHub stars info:
https://github.com/dbohdan/classless-css
Currently working on getting some issues with their test case ironed out to get mine (https://eternityforest.github.io/barrel.css/) included.
dropin-minimal-css

9 1,608 5.9 CSS

Drop-in switcher for previewing minimal CSS frameworks

Project mention: I hate CSS: how can I build UIs? | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-05

Agreed, find a class-less framework to start, so that you focus on just the HTML, semantic structure first. Here's a couple of lists of such frameworks:
https://github.com/troxler/awesome-css-frameworks#class-less
https://github.com/dohliam/dropin-minimal-css
Personally, I like simple.css (https://github.com/kevquirk/simple.css)
Basic.css

3 685 0.0 HTML

Basic.css - Classless CSS Starter File
concrete.css

3 483 6.8 HTML

A simple and to the point classless CSS framework

Project mention: Concrete.css | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-08
WorkOS

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subreply-css

8 24 0.0 HTML

A simple, yet modern and beautiful classless CSS style. Influenced by Subreply (https://subreply.com/about)
fieber

1 12 6.9 CSS

Classless and accessible CSS framework

Project mention: Show HN: Neat, the Minimalist CSS Framework | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-04-25

Shameless self-plug: I recently created my own classless CSS framework[1] and would appreciate feedback.
[1]: https://github.com/zichy/fieber

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2024-02-24.