[!NOTE] This is a community-driven successor to the Pico CSS framework with a few simple goals:

1. Maintain pico minimally until its creator returns.
2. Focus exclusively on the pico.css version, similar to how simple.css is maintained (for Sass version check @Yohn's fork instead).
3. Keep all net new features in https://github.com/anyblades/blades, shipped as blades.css — a drop-in compatible replacement for pico.css.

Minimal CSS Framework for Semantic HTML

A minimalist and lightweight starter kit that prioritizes semantic syntax, making every HTML element responsive and elegant by default.

Write HTML, Add Pico CSS, and Voilà!

Table of contents

• Quick start
• Documentation
• Limitations
• Browser support
• Contributing
• Copyright and license

What’s new in v2.5?

Now including all features from Blades CSS, shipped as blades.css — a drop-in compatible replacement for pico.css.

Also, it includes various fixes for original @picocss/pico issues:

• #738 🐞 Submit button margin affecting siblings within .grid
• #734 🐞 RTL breadcrumbs add weird backslashes
• #733 🐞 Fix for datetime input width within groups within grids on medium breakpoint
• #731 🛠️ Allow to selectively unreduce motion like [aria-busy="true"] does
• #727 🐞 Fix dropdown summary ul offscreen (Safari)
• #721 🛠️ Possible duplicate of text-align property inside the same element selector
• #701 🐞 Nav dropdowns display error with Firefox
• #696 🛠️ Missing styling for <var> element + #695
• #670 🐞 Slow website picocss.com + #718 (box-shadow performance issues)
• #513 🐞 Image element attribute height is overridden

A Superpowered HTML Reset

With just the right amount of everything, Pico is great starting point for a clean and lightweight design system.

• Class-light and Semantic
• Great Styles with Just CSS
• Responsive Everything
• Light or Dark Mode
• Easy Customization
• Optimized Performance

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Quick start

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Documentation

• Get started
  • Quick start
  • Standalone versions NEW
  • Ninja add-ons NEW
  • Color schemes
  • Pico fork NEW
  • CSS variables
  • Frameworks
• Layout
  • Container
  • Breakout container NEW
  • Landmarks & section
  • Grid
  • Text columns NEW
  • Overflow auto
• Content
  • Typography
  • Heading helpers NEW
  • Link
  • Link icon NEW
  • Button
  • Table UPD
  • Responsive table NEW
  • List helpers NEW
  • Code formatting NEW
• Forms
  • Overview
  • Input
  • Textarea
  • Select
  • Checkboxes
  • Radios
  • Switch
  • Range
  • Float labels NEW
• Components
  • Accordion
  • Card
  • Dropdown
  • Group
  • Loading
  • Modal
  • Navigation
  • Progress
  • Tooltip
  • Timeline NEW
  • Jump to... NEW
  • Utilities NEW
• Templates NEW
  • Overview
  • HTML starter NEW
  • Links NEW
  • Sitemap NEW

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• 🐍 FastHTML

Limitations

Pico CSS can be used without custom CSS for quick or small projects. However, it’s designed as a starting point, like a “reset CSS on steroids”. As Pico does not integrate many helpers or utility .classes, it requires CSS knowledge to build large projects.

Read more

Browser support

Pico CSS is designed and tested for the latest stable Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari releases. It does not support any version of IE, including IE 11.

Contributing

• https://github.com/anyblades/pico for the original Pico CSS framework fixes.
• https://github.com/anyblades/blades for net new features and ideas.

Copyright and license

Licensed under the MIT License.