Spectre.css

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

lightweight and clean starting point for your project and prototype
flexbox, responsive and mobile-friendly layout
carefully designed elements
built in useful components and utilities
responsive email templates (soon)

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 3 ways to get started with Spectre CSS framework in your projects. You can either manually install or use NPM and Bower.

Install manually

Download the compiled and minified Spectre CSS file.

Install with NPM

$ npm install spectre.css

Install with Bower

$ bower install spectre.css

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

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

Compiling custom version

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

Documentation and demos

Elements

typography - headings, paragraphs, blockquote, lists and code elements, optimized for 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
media - responsive image and video class

Layout

flexbox-grid - flexbox based responsive grid system
responsive - responsive grid and utilities
navbar - header layout of apps and websites
empty states - empty states/blank slates for first time use, empty data and error screens

Components

avatars - user profile pictures or name initials rendered avatar
chips - complex entities in small blocks
autocomplete - form component provides suggestions while you type
tooltips - simple tooltip built entirely in CSS
labels - formatted text tags for highlighted, informative information
badges - unread number indicators
toasts - showing alerts or notifications
menus - list of links or buttons for actions and navigation
navigation - breadcrumb, tabs and pagination
modals - flexible dialog prompts
cards - flexible content containers

Utilities

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

Tools

Responsive Resizer - responsive test tool

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 compatiblity, these browsers are recommended:

Chrome (last two)
Edge (last two)
Firefox (last two)
Internet Explorer 10+
Microsoft Edge
Opera (last two)
Safari 6+

Currently maintained by Yan Zhu. Feel free to submit a pull request. Help is always appreciated.