Show HN: Nimble.css minimal classless CSS library for great-looking default HTML

4 points by Leftium 9 days ago · 1 comment · 1 min read

Source code: https://github.com/Leftium/nimble.css

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# About

https://PicoCSS.com was a great starting point for projects, but there was some friction:

- Global styles leaked into other components (like Userfront widgets or @vincjo/datatables)

- Too many breakpoints: I just wanted a single breakpoint for phones, otherwise responsive based on content/screen width.

- Too many CSS variables polluting dev tools.

- No longer maintained: SASS warnings polluting terminal output.

- Missing concept of "surfaces."

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I just wanted a classless CSS library that worked well with https://open-props.style. Basically a nicer-looking Open Props Normalize[1].

So I built Nimble.css! (Assisted by Claude.) PicoCSS-inspired aesthetics combined with Open Props curated values.

[1]: https://codepen.io/argyleink/pen/KKvRORE