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24 alternatives to Water.css

Make your tiny website just a little nicer

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Water.css launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Water.css – A just-add-css collection of styles to make websites nicer▲501
A drop-in collection of CSS styles to make simple websites just a little nicer - kognise/water.css
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Animate.css▲191
Just-add-water CSS animations
2014 · daneden.github.io · its alternatives →
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Pattern.css▲197
CSS library to fill empty background with beautiful patterns
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Pattern.css – CSS-only library to fill empty background with patterns▲332
CSS only library to fill empty background with beautiful patterns. - bansal/pattern.css
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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LaTeX.css – Make your website look like a LaTeX document▲515
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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Simple Grid▲229
Responsive & lightweight CSS grid for your website.
2016 · simplegrid.io · its alternatives →
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Layer CSS▲152
Lightweight CSS framework to build your own fluid layouts
2015 · layers-css.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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justbuildthings▲362
free tiny web products
2024 · justbuildthings.com · its alternatives →
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Pure▲164
Set of small, responsive CSS modules
2014 · pure-css.github.io · its alternatives →
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Tailwind CSS▲420
A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development
2017 · tailwindcss.com · its alternatives →
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A simple hand drawn HTML/CSS theme▲188
A simple hand drawn HTML/CSS theme.
2021 · chr15m.github.io · its alternatives →
12
lit▲265
World's smallest responsive CSS framework (398 bytes!)
2018 · ajusa.github.io · its alternatives →
13
Picnic.css, a lightweight Bootstrap alternative▲247
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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Smaller▲85
Make your websites load faster
2018 · its alternatives →
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Picnic CSS▲131
A beautiful CSS library to kickstart your projects
2016 · picnicss.com · its alternatives →
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StyleURL▲190
Share & preview CSS tweaks instantly
2018 · its alternatives →
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Stylish▲109
Restyle the web with custom CSS
2015 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Hint.css 2.0▲234
A pure CSS tooltip library for your lovely websites.
2016 · its alternatives →
19
Drop-In CSS Generator▲87
Generate custom style sheets for simple websites
2023 · dropincss.com · its alternatives →
20
Less 2.0▲96
CSS pre-processor makes CSS more maintainable & extendable
2014 · lesscss.org · its alternatives →
21
CSS-Mint▲118
Lightweight and simple to use UI Kit.
2016 · arunmichaeldsouza.github.io · its alternatives →
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A simple, plain, minimal, classless CSS for simple, plain HTML pages▲128
A simple, minimal, classless stylesheet for simple HTML pages - susam/spcss
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
23AS
A small (less than 2 kb) CSS framework▲79
A beautiful CSS framework in under 2 KiB
2013 · andhart.github.io · its alternatives →
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Ordinary▲176
Simple page maker to refresh the ordinary
2025 · ordinary.page · its alternatives →

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