Blades CSS
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“Some recent alternatives/successors/forks that are in the same vein as Pico”
“Already plain modern CSS instead of Sass, has Popover API”
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“seems to be a continuation in the same spirit”
“Blades CSS is the go-to successor btw. Fully compatible with Pico”
“new home for Pico CSS”
Caveats and dissent
“This site seems very slopped together.”
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From the makers not counted in the ranking
“we also set up a dedicated page outlining key details and fixes made in underlying Pico fork”
Thanks for sharing! Same spirit, same underlying code. We’re actively maintaining Blades CSS on GitHub and Discord, and would love Community feedback there. We also set up a dedicated page outlining key details: https://blades.dev/css/pico/
“The main project is Blades at https://github.com/anyblades/blades.”
“Brand new home for Blades CSS, a fully compatible and actively maintained successor to Pico CSS”
“we’ve taken over maintenance of a fork, and just released our Pico successor candidate”
“Now including all features from Blades CSS, shipped as pico.blades.css”
Threads where it came up
- Pico CSS is no longer maintained 5 mentions
- Show HN: Sumi.css – CSS Framework 3 mentions
- Pico CSS is no longer maintained (final release v2.1.1) 1 mention
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- item 48406438 1 mention
- Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS 1 mention
Also written as Blades, blades. Data: blades-css.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 8
“Some recent alternatives/successors/forks that are in the same vein as Pico”
“Already plain modern CSS instead of Sass, has Popover API”
“seems to be a continuation in the same spirit”
“This site seems very slopped together.”
“Blades CSS is the go-to successor btw. Fully compatible with Pico”
“new home for Pico CSS”
“you might want to try Blades CSS also”
“Use Blades `<i>`-helper to wrap emojis, favicons”