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A collection of active front-end frameworks for web development.
You can Compare all front-end frameworks here: http://usablica.github.com/front-end-frameworks/compare.html All credit goes to usablica for the original list. I have removed frameworks which have gone inactive. In some cases the framework still is available but has not received updates in years.
Simple and light responsive grid system
Responsive: Yes
Website: http://html5-ninja.com/icecream
With HTML5 support coming so fast, with the tiniest of hacks we are able to use it today in virtually al browsers. Using HTML5 makes for much cleaner mark up. This framework fully uses all the great advantages of HTML5.
Responsive: No
Website: http://52framework.com/
Lightweight, highly customizable, scalable, Sass-based, OOCSS framework. LESS and Stylus ports also available.
Responsive: Yes
Website: http://concisecss.com/
Sleek, intuitive, and powerful front-end framework for faster and easier web development.
Responsive: Yes
Website: http://getbootstrap.com/
Ultra–Lean HTML Building Blocks for Rapid Website Production.
HTML KickStart is an ultra–lean set of HTML5, CSS, and jQuery (javascript) files, layouts, and elements designed to give you a headstart and save you 10's of hours on your next web project.
Responsive: Yes
Website: http://www.99lime.com/
Baseline is a framework built around the idea of a “real” baseline grid.
Built with typographic standards in mind, Baseline makes it easy to develop a website with a pleasing grid and good typography. Baseline starts with several files to reset the browser’s default behavior, build a basic typographic layout — including style for HTML forms and new HTML 5 elements — and build a simple grid system.
Responsive: No
Website: http://www.baselinecss.com/
Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your development time. It gives you a solid foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, useful plugins, and even a stylesheet for printing.
Responsive: No
Website: http://www.blueprintcss.org/
Powerful OOCSS front-end framework optimised for performance and flexibility.
Responsive: Yes
Website: http://cascade-framework.com/
An even more lightweight version of Cascade Framework, containing just the bare essentials.
Responsive: Yes
Website: https://github.com/jslegers/cascadeframeworklight/
The most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world.
Foundation is built with Sass, a powerful CSS preprocessor, which allows us to much more quickly develop Foundation itself and gives you new tools to quickly customize and build on top of Foundation.
Responsive: Yes
Website: http://foundation.zurb.com/
Ink is a set of tools for quick development of web interfaces.
It offers a fluid and responsive grid, common interface elements, interactive components, a design-first approach with ease of use and simplicity at its core. Start integrating Ink in your projects and remove the hassle of building the basics, staying free to focus on what's important.
Responsive: Yes
Website: http://ink.sapo.pt/
Github: http://github.com/sapo/ink/
A lightweight front-end framework for creating scalable, responsive sites
Kickoff is an actively maintained front-end framework, created by Zander Martineau and Ashley Nolan.
The framework is not meant to be too prescriptive - we don't want to force developers into a certain coding style - and so can be used as a starting point for any type of project.
Responsive: Yes
Website: http://trykickoff.com/index.html
Github: https://github.com/tmwagency/kickoff
CSS-framework for professional developers.
Minimal and enough. Adaptive and responsive. Revolution grid and beautiful typography. No imposed styles and freedom.
Responsive: Yes
Website: http://imperavi.com/kube/
Lightweight. Unobtrusive. Style-agnostic. Build your look on the web, not Twitter's – and build it fluid.
Layers CSS is aimed for practical use and comes with zero bullshit.
Responsive: Yes
Website: http://eiskis.net/layers/
Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/Eiskis/layers-css/src/tip/source/layers/
Created and designed by Google, Material Design is a design language that combines the classic principles of successful design along with innovation and technology. Google's goal is to develop a system of design that allows for a unified user experience across all their products on any platform.
Responsive: Yes
** Website:** http://materializecss.com
A set of small, responsive CSS modules that you can use in every web project, built by the YUI team at Yahoo!.
PureCSS is a collection of responsive 'drop-ins' built with - you guessed it! - pure CSS! The PureCSS website also has a skin builder on their website, so you're restricted by default colors no more.
Responsive: Yes
Website: http://purecss.io/
The evolution of Skeleton: A Beautiful Boilerplate for Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Development.
Ribs is a modernised, maintained and feature rich fork of the original Skeleton framework.
Responsive: Yes
Website: https://github.com/nickpack/Ribs
RÖCSSTI is a CSS micro-framework which includes accessibility notions, typo settings, IE fixes, reusable classes, ect. It is the little brother of KNACSS. It also has LESS and Sass versions.
Responsive: Yes
Website: http://rocssti.nicolas-hoffmann.net/ & https://github.com/nico3333fr/ROCSSTI
UI is the vocabulary of the web.
Semantic empowers designers and developers by creating a language for sharing UI.
Pure is ridiculously tiny. The entire set of modules clocks in at 4.5KB* minified and gzipped. Crafted with mobile devices in mind, it was important to us to keep our file sizes small, and every line of CSS was carefully considered. If you decide to only use a subset of these modules, you'll save even more bytes.
Responsive: Yes
Website: http://semantic-ui.com/
Github: https://github.com/jlukic/Semantic-UI
A Deliciously Simple SASS/SCSS Responsive Framework
Everything is straight forward, all of the code is commented and gives you instructions on how to use Crumpet, so you can spend all your time in the code editor.
Responsive: Yes
Website: https://github.com/AdamMarsBar/Crumpet
A CSS Grid System for Humans
Jeet allows you to express your page grid the same way a human would describe it. No more needlessly nesting elements. No more rigid twelve column rules. Enjoy building faster with less code, and more flexibility with Jeet.
Responsive: Yes
Website: http://jeet.gs/
A Beautiful Boilerplate for Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Development.
Skeleton is a small collection of CSS files that can help you rapidly develop sites that look beautiful at any size, be it a 17" laptop screen or an iPhone.
Responsive: Yes
Website: http://www.getskeleton.com/
Unsemantic is a fluid grid system that is the successor to the 960 Grid System. It works in a similar way, but instead of being a set number of columns, it's entirely based on percentages.
Responsive: Yes
Website: http://unsemantic.com/
Object-Oriented CSS Framework
xCSS bases on CSS and empowers a straightforward and object-oriented workflow when developing complex style cascades. Using xCSS means a dramatic cut down to your development time by: having a intuitive overview of the overall CSS structure, using variables, re-using existing style cascades and many other handy features.
Responsive: No
Website: http://xcss.antpaw.org/
“Yet Another Multicolumn Layout” (YAML)
YAML is an (X)HTML/CSS framework for creating modern and flexible floated layouts. The structure is extremely versatile in its programming and absolutely accessible for end users.
Responsive: Yes
Website: http://www.yaml.de/
Simple CSS for the web
The foundational YUI CSS is an extremely lightweight layer of responsive CSS for your projects. It offers a customizable responsive grid , along with styling for forms, tables, menus, popovers, notifications, images and more. Plays nice with YUI's JavaScript Framework.
Responsive: Yes
Website: http://yuilibrary.com/
Your markup. Your design. Our math.
The web is a responsive place, from your lithe & lively development process to your end-user's super-tablet-multi-magic-lap-phone. You need grids that are powerful yet custom, reliable yet responsive.
Responsive: Yes
Website: http://susy.oddbird.net/
Github: https://github.com/ericam/susy/
A powerful, scalable, Sass-based, BEM, OOCSS framework.
inuit.css is a Sass based, Object Oriented framework that is full of objects and abstractions. inuit.css provides little-to-no design which means no undoing things, no deleting CSS and no adhering to other peoples’ design decisions.
Responsive: Yes
Website: http://inuitcss.com/
Github: https://github.com/inuitcss/inuitcss
A beautiful CSS framework under 2kb
A small, yet beautiful CSS framework that weighs in under 2kb.
Responsive: Yes
Website: http://andhart.github.io/bijou
Github: https://github.com/andhart/bijou
metro style web framework
simple and flexible web framework to create elegant and modern web applications with the same look & feel of Windows 8.
Responsive: Yes
Website: http://aozora.github.io/bootmetro/
CodeLeson
CodeLeson is a Programming and Web Development blog. Here you will see different Web technologies tutorials free. And you can see live demos of tutorials and download the source code. You can learn from video tutorials.
Responsive: Yes
Website: http://www.codeleson.com
Github: https://github.com/codeleson