Welcome! In this post, I'll be outlining 10 amazing classless CSS frameworks that you can use to style your web pages with ease.
Simply drop one line of HTML into the <head> tag of your website, and your webpage will be looking ✨stunning✨ instantly.
Let's begin!
1. Pico.css
Pico.css is an excellent classless CSS framework with a modern, minimal aesthetic.
Preview
Features:
- Responsive
- Dark theme support
- Great documentation
- Cool examples
- Form styling
- Built-in components
Website: Website
GitHub Repo: GitHub Repo
2. Holiday.css
If you want to style a webpage, article or blog post quickly, then be sure to take a look at the Holiday.css framework. It has a modern visual aesthetic, and supports dark mode too.
It also has built-in code snippet styling with syntax highlighting, which can be useful for creating code tutorials and so forth.
Overall, this framework could be very useful if you'd like to create a personal website, blog or just want to add some magic to a website.
☀️ Light theme
🌙 Dark theme
Website: Website
GitHub Repo: GitHub Repo
Features:
- Only ~5kb, super lightweight
- Responsive
- Nav styling
- Converts nested
<ul>s into dropdowns - Code snippet styling with syntax highlighting
- Dark theme support
- Form styling
3. LaTeX.css
If you'd like to style your webpages like LaTeX documents, then this is the CSS library for you! It's such a cool library overall, and can be great if you'd like to make articles and blog posts appear like LaTeX documents.
It also has an alternative typeface available, you can preview this by scrolling to the "Alternative Typeface" section, and there will be a toggle button which you can click to preview the other typeface.
☀️ Light theme
🌙 Dark theme
There's also a dark theme version too. If you scroll down on the website, there will be a toggle that you can click to enable/disable dark theme mode.
Website: Website
GitHub Repo: GitHub Repo
Features:
- Responsive
- Dark theme support
- Supports sidenotes
- Beautiful styling of tables, blockquotes etc
- Support for displaying equations, proofs, theorems, lemmas
- Text formatting
4. Bamboo
Bamboo is a CSS framework with a clean, minimal design. It automatically switches the theme according to the system mode, but you can also specifically specify whether to use light/dark mode. This framework is super lightweight, and is fully responsive also.
☀️ Light theme
🌙 Dark theme
Features:
- Responsive
- Dark theme support
- Great documentation
- Cool examples
- Form styling
- Built-in components
Website: Website
GitHub Repo: GitHub Repo
5. New.css
You can use this for styling a blog post, article or just for stylising text. It has a sleek, modern aesthetic and can instantly enhance your website in seconds.
It has both light and dark mode support.
☀️ Light theme
🌙 Dark theme
Bonus: It also has a cool terminal theme, you can preview it here.
** Terminal theme**
Website: Website
GitHub Repo: GitHub Repo
Features:
- Responsive
- Dark theme support
- Built-in header styling
- Cool terminal theme
- Great documentation
6. Simple.css
Simple.css is another great library I would recommend taking a look at. You can see a preview of it below, and a link to the website is also provided below too.
Preview
Website: Website
GitHub Repo: GitHub Repo
Features:
- Responsive
- Dark theme support
- Built-in header styling
- Test page with common HTML elements, view it here
7. Silicon.css
Silicon.css is a new framework which can make webpages look incredible instantly! It uses the Outfit font, which adds a modern aesthetic overall. It supports dark mode, and looks great on mobile devices too.
Website: Website
GitHub Repo: GitHub Repo
Features:
- Responsive
- Dark theme support
- Great documentation
8. Tacit
Tacit is a great CSS framework which you can quickly add to your webpages. You can see a preview of it in the image below, and the library's website acts as a demo for the library too, so you can preview what it looks like.
Preview
Website: Website
GitHub Repo: GitHub Repo
Features:
- Responsive
- Dark theme support
- Great documentation
- Cool examples
9. MVP.css
I'd also recommend taking a look at MVP.css, which helps you to quickly style your webpages. If you're creating a new website for a project and want to style the page without much CSS, then just import this library and you're good to go!
Preview
Website: Website
GitHub Repo:GitHub Repo
Features:
- Responsive
- Dark theme support
- Great documentation
- Great for quickly building project websites etc
10. Almond.css
Almond.css is a lovely, minimalist CSS framework that's lightweight and responsive. It has great documentation, and showcases a preview of what common HTML elements look like with the framework styling applied.
You can install it via NPM or by adding the stylesheet to your website's head tag.
The theme can be adjusted, so it supports custom styling too.
Preview
Website: Website
GitHub Repo: GitHub Repo
Features:
- Responsive
- Great documentation
- Custom styling
- Lightweight
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