What is 🐦Ravenbright CSS?

Ravenbright CSS is a modern, style & platform agnostic CSS library to build intuitive static sites faster. Ravenbright CSS comes with 3 main features: CSS utility classes, CSS custom properties & minimal components.

How Ravenbright CSS differs from others?

• ✨ Low specificity CSS. It makes styling more manageable & customization process easier. Check the Ravenbright CSS code quality dashboard here.

• 🤓 It's beginner friendly. Ravenbright CSS has zero configuration to get started. No preprocessors, no complex front-end setup, & no subscriptions required. Just plug & play 🎮. Quickly download the source code and UI collections for free!.

• 🌐 Ravenbright CSS is a platform agnostic. It has no vendor lock-in. It provides flexible & easy to implement styling options that works regardless of specific tech platforms.

• 👌 Ravenbright CSS doesn't dictate how you should design the website. Everything is customizable, style agnostic and without strictly opinionated design styles. Handily modify the components with using CSS variables, utility classes or creating your own classes. It's all your choice

• ✅ You can build static websites that works without Javascript.

• 🤝 Ravenbright CSS provides a way to have faster & seamless handoff experiences. Ravenbright CSS offers broad range of design tokens format: CSS variables, raw JSON, Figma tokens JSON & tailwind CSS config. By using raw JSON file you can generate the tokens to other formats using Style Dictionary.

Who is it for?

If you,

• are on the verge of getting started without rebuilding same UI components but still aim to customize the sites
• tired to deal with complex front-end configurations when creating static sites such as portfolio, coming soon, or landing page
• have had enough customizing opinionated frameworks which contain bloated CSS
• attempt to improve designer & developer hand off process
• need to develop static sites that works without Javascript

Ravenbright CSS might be for you.

Explore other 😎 cool features from Ravenbright CSS

• 🆓 Free even for commercial usage - Ravenbright CSS codes are free to use & released under Apache license 2.0.

• ⚡ Free pre-built lightning fast & beautifully-designed Next.js 13, Astro 1.6 & Gatsby modern agency portfolio templates

• 🌙 Built in dark mode - Ravenbright CSS provide wide range of colors for the dark mode

• ♿ Built with accessibility in mind - Ravenbright CSS components & design tokens follow WCAG 2.1

• 🌐 Rapidly integrate Ravenbright CSS with your favorite stacks - Ravenbright CSS currently can be integrated with 5 platforms (NextJS, Gatsby, Figma, Tailwind & Astro) to help you start quickly when building sites

• 📗 In-depth documentation - Learn utility classes, design tokens, & CSS components with the growing documentation

How to get started?

Manual download

• Download the source code from GitHub Releases

Install via CDN

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/ravenbrightcss/dist/ravenbright.min.css">

Install via npm

# initialize project
npm init

# download & install Ravenbright CSS locally
npm install ravenbrightcss

# change directory
cd node_modules/ravenbrightcss

# install dependencies
npm install

# build the css & start the local dev server
npm run dev

Still have doubt? Don't be, explore & play around with Ravenbright CSS live demo on Codepen.

View demo on Codepen 👇

CSS build process

Ravenbright CSS is built from several CSS files with the help of PostCSS. By using PostCSS, you can remove the unused CSS, cherry-pick the CSS files and use SASS-like features in CSS (Nesting & mixins).

Check out Ravenbright CSS tutorial to help you understand more about this.

Credits & attributions

Check the complete list of attributions

License

Ravenbright CSS source codes are released under Apache License 2.0