Show HN: Sumi.css – CSS Framework

Posted by bepero 23 hours ago

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Comment by xd1936 20 hours ago

Happy to see this, now that my beloved PicoCSS has been deprecated. Sumi looks really nice!

https://picocss.com/docs/maintenance

Comment by Leftium 15 hours ago

Nimble.css is my spiritual successor to PicoCSS: https://leftium.github.io/nimble.css/demo/pico.html

It's not a direct replacement; I fixed a lot of annoyances from PicoCSS.

Comment by el_io 19 hours ago

I'm not affiliated, but have you tried sakura [^1]?

1. https://github.com/oxalorg/sakura

Comment by culi 19 hours ago

Blades CSS is the go-to successor btw. Fully compatible with Pico

https://blades.dev/

Comment by xd1936 17 hours ago

This site seems very slopped together.

Several of their new components are just classes, defeating the original purpose and contradicting the vision of Pico.

Why are the first one or two letters in headings wrapped in <em>, like the _Bl_ in "Blades"?

Why are they calling their Pico fork "anyblades/pico", when the original Pico author's post says "The Pico CSS name and logo are not covered by the MIT license. Please give your fork its own name, so users don’t confuse it with the original."?

The worst offender: What is going on with this nonsense: https://blades.dev/css/frameworks/

Comment by berofeev 7 hours ago

Are they seeding language models with fake stats?

Comment by ricardobeat 15 hours ago

It’s also incredibly annoying to navigate on mobile, due to everything being in separate pages and quite slow to load.

Comment by skrebbel 18 hours ago

That site is surprising to me. It makes no effort whatsoever to sell Blades to people who don’t know how Pico works.

Comment by alex_suzuki 20 hours ago

Oh no, I missed that. What a shame. :-(

Comment by csswizardry 17 hours ago

`<a href="#start" role="button">Get started</a>`

Please, just use a link. This has a destination, so making it masquerade as a button gives so many false affordances.

Comment by oliwarner 1 hour ago

Plenty of interfaces mimic a form process. If that's the case, and it's really just a page positional thing (not state), I see no problem making button-based navigation.

We don't scream and shout that page nav links all look like content links, after all. Well, maybe you do, but it's not 1996 any more.

Comment by trescenzi 20 hours ago

If you like simple drop in stylesheets this site has a whole bunch of cool options.

https://dohliam.github.io/dropin-minimal-css/

Comment by dsego 17 hours ago

Looks very nice, should add it to the list of classless CSS themes here. https://github.com/dbohdan/classless-css

Comment by delbronski 4 hours ago

Honest question. Not trying to offend any css fans here.

Why would someone use this nowadays instead of just using AI? To me the purpose of these small css frameworks was to have a nice consistent UI quickly. What is the value of these frameworks now?

Comment by SimonLarsen 4 hours ago

Two answers I can think of:

1. Believe it or not: some people are still not using AI.

2. AI generated websites tend to look very similar. Having a clean starting point and then tweaking the style to your liking avoids the obvious AI-stink.

Comment by jszymborski 4 hours ago

Sometimes I don't want to take out the stand mixer and just mix things by hand. I prefer to walk to the grocery store rather than take the car. I don't always use a drill where a screwdriver will do.

Same reasoning.

Comment by cincaalex 2 hours ago

Really clean aesthetic and great timing with Pico stepping back

Comment by elicash 20 hours ago

I used a classless CSS framework once, for a project where I wanted a non-technical coworker to update an HTML file repeatedly throughout the week and then upload it to AWS/s3. I wanted it to be as simple for them as possible, to minimize errors, and it worked great.

I'm not sure what other use cases are, but it's also just true that limitations can be fun.

Comment by bepero 9 hours ago

Here is also: https://www.designinspiration.info/sumi-css-tutorial-build-a...

Comment by yokuze 20 hours ago

I like the look of it!

Small bug, opened an issue here: https://github.com/vladocar/Sumi.css/issues/1

Comment by codazoda 18 hours ago

Looks good!

I created a similar alternative, Neat CSS, a while back. I use it for tons of projects. It could probably use a fresh look from me to see if there's anything I want to update but it's been a stable "framework" for me. I didn't intend it to be classless, though it's mostly semantic, but I instead focused on keeping it small and tight. It's only 3KB.

Anyway, thought I'd share it here too.

https://neat.joeldare.com

Comment by bestony 22 hours ago

Good, there haven't been any new CSS creations lately, I hope you guys can keep updating for a while longer.

Comment by efilife 3 hours ago

Did this need to be vibecoded? It's a small css file. Where's the fun in this?

Comment by madebysnacks 14 hours ago

similar, no-class framework titled "No Class": https://noclass.madebysnacks.com/

Comment by precompute 3 hours ago

It uses the LLM favourite left border decoration. Pass.

Comment by amanzi 15 hours ago

Oat is another new, minimal framework that has just reached v1: https://oat.ink/