🥷 Blades  

Fully compatible and actively maintained successor to Pico CSS.

Introduces float labels, breakout container and other modern, opt-out helpers. Simply switch pico.css to blades.css OR use blades.standalone.css with other frameworks.

Quick start

There are 4 ways to get started:

A. Install manually

Download CSS archive and link css/blades.css in the <head> of your website.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/blades.css" />

B. Usage from CDN

<link rel="stylesheet" href="
  https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@anyblades/blades@3/css/blades.min.css
"/>

Live example: https://github.com/pallets/website/blob/main/src/pallets/templates/layout.html

Full list of CSS files available on CDN: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@anyblades/blades@3/css/

C. Install with NPM

npm install @anyblades/blades

Then, @import sources into your CSS file:

@import "@anyblades/blades";

Alternatively, import standalone Blades CSS sources only (without underlying Pico CSS base styles):

@import "@anyblades/blades/standalone";

Live example using Tailwind: https://github.com/anyblades/buildawesome-micro-starters/blob/main/tailwind/styles.css

D. Official starters

• https://github.com/buildawesome-one/starter
• https://github.com/buildawesome-one/examples
• https://github.com/getgrav/grav-theme-quark2
• https://github.com/getgrav/grav-plugin-devtools

Starter HTML template

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
    <meta name="color-scheme" content="light dark" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/blades.css" />
    <title>Hello world!</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <main class="container">
      <h1>Hello world!</h1>
    </main>
  </body>
</html>

Dynamic templates

Available for Nunjucks, Liquid and Twig ↗

Documentation

Trusted by

• 🐍 Flask & Jinja community website
• 🪐 Grav CMS v2 default theme

Featured by

• getgrav.org
• @11ty/buildawesome ↗
• buildawesome.one
• libhunt.com
• context7.com
• awesome-css
• awesome-css-frameworks
• @pauleveritt
• @daviding
• @cantdutchthis
• @adamdjbrett

Credits

• https://picocss.com/ for inspiration
• https://11ty.dev/ for site generation