Spectre.css

Spectre.css is a lightweight, responsive and modern CSS framework for faster and extensible development.

Lightweight (~10KB gzipped) starting point for your projects
Flexbox-based, responsive and mobile-friendly layout
Carefully designed elements and components

Spectre is a side project based on years of CSS development work on a large web service project. Spectre only includes modern base styles, responsive layout system, CSS components and utilities, and it can be modified for your project with LESS compiler.

Read the documentation to learn more.

Getting started

There are 4 ways to get started with Spectre CSS framework in your projects. You can either manually install or use NPM, Yarn and Bower.

Install manually

Download the compiled and minified Spectre CSS file.

Install with NPM

$ npm install spectre.css --save

Install with Yarn

$ yarn add spectre.css

Install with Bower

$ bower install spectre.css --save

And include it in your website or Web app <head> part.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="dist/spectre.min.css" />

Compiling custom version

You can compile your custom version of Spectre.css. Read the documentation.

Documentation and demos

Elements

Typography - headings, paragraphs, semantic text, blockquote, lists and code elements, optimized for east asian fonts
Tables - organize and display data
Buttons - button styles in different types and sizes, and even button groups
Forms - input, radio, checkbox, switch and other form elements
Labels - formatted text tags for highlighted, informative information
Codes - inline and multiline code snippets
Media - responsive images, figures and video classes
Experimentals - experimental elements and features, mostly are not yet ready for wide use

Layout

Flexbox-grid - flexbox based responsive grid system
Responsive - responsive grid and utilities
Navbar - layout container that appears in the header of apps and websites
Empty states - empty states/blank slates for first time use, empty data and error screens

Components

Autocomplete - form component provides suggestions while you type
Avatars - user profile pictures or name initials rendered avatar
Badges - unread number indicators
Cards - flexible content containers
Chips - complex entities in small blocks
Dropdowns - combination of buttons and menus
Menus - list of links or buttons for actions and navigation
Modals - flexible dialog prompts
Navigation - breadcrumb, tabs, pagination and navs
Steps - progress indicators of a sequence of task steps
Tiles - repeatable or embeddable information blocks
Toasts - showing alerts or notifications
Tooltips - simple tooltip built entirely in CSS

Utilities

Utilities - layout, positions, display, text, shapes, loading things

Browser support

Spectre uses Autoprefixer to make most styles compatible with earlier browsers and Normalize.css for CSS resets. Spectre is designed for modern browsers. For best compatibility, these browsers are recommended:

Chrome (last three)
Microsoft Edge (last three)
Firefox (last three)
Safari (last three)
Opera (last three)
Internet Explorer 10+

Designed and built with ♥ by Yan Zhu. Feel free to submit a pull request. Help is always appreciated.

tinhspace / spectre