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CSS Bed: Classless CSS themes to use as starting points in web development

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  1. nilslindemann · · focus · HN ↗
    For me it is definitely Pico.css. Honorable mentions: simple.css, tacit, w3c-chocolate.
    1. robertclaus · · focus · HN ↗
      I like marx
    2. jimmydoe · · focus · HN ↗
      pico css has a newer fork: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mucss.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mucss.org
      1. steezeburger · · focus · HN ↗
        Brb, gotta go cough up some mucss
      2. lofties · · focus · HN ↗
        &quot;Lightweight ~120 KB uncompressed&quot;

        We have different definitions of lightweight it seems like.

        1. chrismorgan · · focus · HN ↗
          Well, μ- is a million times bigger than p-. But last time I looked &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45163827">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45163827&gt;, Pico CSS was 83 kB—nowhere near as small as that name would suggest, either.
        2. frereubu · · focus · HN ↗
          When I worked at the BBC in the late 90s &#x2F; early 2000s the home page of any site - including images - couldn&#x27;t be more than 70kb!
          1. frereubu · · focus · HN ↗
            Just checked - now the homepage of the BBC on load has a transfer of 1.5MB with 5.7MB of resources, and once you&#x27;ve scrolled down the page for the lazy loaded images those figures are 2.9MB and 7.2MB respectively.
    3. ctippett · · focus · HN ↗
      holiday.css for me, only 5kb to boot.
    4. shrikant · · focus · HN ↗
      I used chota.css (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jenil.github.io&#x2F;chota&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jenil.github.io&#x2F;chota&#x2F;) in the past to build a couple internal sites for my then-employer. Only ~3kb compressed! And the name stays relevant-ish because it means &quot;small&quot; in Hindi...

      Edited to add: it&#x27;s not classless though. Marx would disapprove.

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