Motherplate – responsive boilerplate

Last Updated on April 16, 2025

Motherplate is a bare bones open source SCSS HTML5 responsive boilerplate.

It includes a CSS reset and a bunch of minimal boilerplate styles that should come in useful for any project, including a responsive grid, typography, icons and forms.

Motherplate uses SASS and Compass, which rely on Ruby.

Features include:

• Uses SASS partials to help structure the CSS.
• Uses Compass to take advantage of CSS3 mixins so you don’t have to worry about browser prefixes (-webkit- etc).
• Responsive-ready 12-column grid system to work across all devices.
• Uses Font-Awesome icon fonts for icons.
• Uses Normalize.css to reset browser styles.
• Only enough CSS to get you started; no visual styling with this boilerplate.
• Only the HTML/JS you need to get started; very little components with this boilerplate.

Website: www.leemunroe.com
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Lee Munroe
License: MIT License

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