sakura is a minimal, classless CSS framework / theme.
Just drop sakura.css into any webpage and go from an ugly-looking 1900s website to a pretty, modern website in literally 0 seconds.
It’s easy to customize and build on top of sakura.
sakura supports extremely easy theming using variables for duotone color scheming. It comes with several existing themes, which can be found in the css folder of this repository.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Drop it in, even on existing HTML content, to get a pretty-looking website (everything “just works”).
- Quick prototyping, especially when working on backend sites and can’t yet be bothered to fidget with CSS/HTML
- Building a quick (but pretty) site/blog.
- No need to remember tons of different class names for every other CSS framework.
- Works amazingly with markdown-generated HTML pages (eliminates the need for hacks.
- Useful for people who aren’t really good or interested in design as sakura is nothing but a set of reasonable defaults
Website: github.com/oxalorg/sakura
Support:
Developer: Mitesh Shah
License: MIT License
sakura is written in CSS. Learn CSS with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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