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i collect these CSS frameworks for fun! here's my list:

### Drop-in CSS Frameworks

preview some of these with https://sites.yax.com/

- [Spectre.css](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/getting-started/instal...)

- https://latex.vercel.app/

- https://purecss.io/

- https://picocss.com/

- https://gdcss.netlify.app/ (inspired by UK design system)

- https://simplecss.org/demo

- https://ajusa.github.io/lit/

- https://screencss.com/

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

- https://github.com/xz/new.css

- https://github.com/oxalorg/sakura

- https://native-elements.dev/

- https://watercss.kognise.dev/

- https://luxacss.com/

- https://jenil.github.io/chota/

- https://chr15m.github.io/DoodleCSS/ hand drawn look

- https://github.com/susam/spcss

- https://elementcss.neocities.org/

- https://codepen.io/web-dot-dev/pen/abpoXGZ the base classes for web.dev/learn/csss

- https://open-props.style/ css variables framework - "tailwind without tailwind"

- https://github.com/alvaromontoro/almond.css classless css framework. [thin fonts] (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30497165).

- Collections of even more:

  - https://github.com/dohliam/dropin-minimal-css

  - https://github.com/dbohdan/classless-css

  - https://github.com/ubershmekel/cssbed (https://www.cssbed.com/)

  - https://thesephist.github.io/paper.css/ and https://thesephist.github.io/blocks.css/

full list here: https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#dro...


> https://chr15m.github.io/DoodleCSS/ hand drawn look

Just found the stylesheet for my website's redesign, thank you :)

I'm surprised that Tacit is missing from the list though. When it comes to modern design using classless CSS my order of preference is normally water.css, tacit, and then MVP.css. It just looks great and uses the HTML5 semantic elements to their full potential.


well, i just added it :)


My go to seems to not be in your list yet:

https://newcss.net

I always use this if I need to quickly make some structured info visible on the web. Works on mobile, works in dark mode, looks inoffensive and professional and is super small.


yup, i have it under https://github.com/xz/new.css but noted!


The problem with some of these is that they are terrible for accessibility. There is extremely low contrast, missing focus styling, invalid non-semantic HTML, ... Having a list of good examples only would be much more interesting than a list of everything.


none of them tripped my "low contrast" radar - and i'm usually pretty good on that - please let me know which in particular and i'll add a warning


I'd also say https://classless.de should be on the list - I use it quite heavily and really like it, as well as being able to theme it more easily too!





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