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24 alternatives to awsm.css
Simple CSS library for semantic HTML markup
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. awsm.css launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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A drop-in collection of CSS styles to make simple websites just a little nicer - kognise/water.css
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 2LC
This is a personal take on making a classless semantic CSS library.
2023 · lissomware.github.io · its alternatives →
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MVP.css — Minimalist classless CSS stylesheet for HTML elements - andybrewer/mvp
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I've tried to make it as light as possible. It's only tested with Firefox and Chrome, however I intend to test it in IE down to 9. What would you change? What would you add? Any feedback or pull request is greatly welcome! MIT Licensed
2014 · picnicss.com · its alternatives →
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98.css▲256A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs
2020 · jdan.github.io · its alternatives →
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CSS library based on Counter Strike 1.6 UI.
2025 · cs16.samke.me · its alternatives →
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2020 · rbitr.github.io · its alternatives →
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2016 · igoradamenko.github.io · its alternatives →
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A simple, minimal, classless stylesheet for simple HTML pages - susam/spcss
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Pattern.css▲197CSS library to fill empty background with beautiful patterns
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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CSS only library to fill empty background with beautiful patterns. - bansal/pattern.css
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Bolt.css is a classless css library
2022 · boltcss.com · its alternatives →
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A CSS library embracing the neo-brutalist design principles
2023 · matifandy8.github.io · its alternatives →
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A minimal, almost class-less CSS library to write modern websites that look like LaTeX documents.
2020 · latex.now.sh · its alternatives →
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2016 · kushagragour.in · its alternatives →
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Picnic CSS▲131A beautiful CSS library to kickstart your projects
2016 · picnicss.com · its alternatives →
- 21LCLaptop.css▲92
2019 · jjkaufman.github.io · its alternatives →
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A list of CSS authoring rules with examples and a Stylelint config accessible from the top of the page. I've come to these through 20 years of experience and a willingness to make vanilla CSS a better alternative to frameworks. I encourage you all to comment on the rules themselves and the Stylelint Config for ECSS. Here's the link for faster access (I still suggest at least zipping through the rules beforehand). https://www.npmjs.com/package/@efficientcss/stylelint-config...
2024 · ecss.info · its alternatives →
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Spectre.css▲162A lightweight, responsive and modern CSS framework
2016 · picturepan2.github.io · its alternatives →
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Stitches▲135The modern CSS-in-JS library with near-zero runtime.
2020 · stitches.dev · its alternatives →
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