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I combined Milligram, Skeleton, and Normalize into a single CSS project

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#css framework#milligram#skeleton css#normalize css#css grid

158points
33comments
#380of 3,028 in 2020
Top 13%of 2020 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

3 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 8 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score -0.24.

Design: 0 for, 6 againstIdea: 2 for, 2 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Good idea to revive two abandoned projects

    From 1 comment
    • Good work! I like the concept of creating a new project based two formerly popular css projects that now seem to be abandoned. A nice way to pay respect to the work done by…
      40four on HN
  • Impressive documentation

    From 1 comment
    • impressive documentation for a simple “stitched together” library. you even bought a domain name! nice work.
      swyx on HN

Objections

  • Thin light-grey low-contrast body text is hard to read

    From 3 comments
    • Ditch the thin light-grey font on white background. I have 20/20 vision and I have to attain my eyes to read the text.
      dmitriid on HN
    • I can barely read that low-contrast thin font, and I have average vision.
      joeframbach on HN
    • ``` body { color: #606c76; } ``` why. Just... why.
      hinkley on HN
  • File size is large (22kb) compared to Skeleton; no minified version yet

    From 1 comment
    • I really love you have picked up from skeleton / milligram. A suggestion, you might want to included a minified version of the css because it looks to be 22kb and you’ll be…
      alberth on HN
  • Text is oversized on some devices and the typography is off

    From 2 comments
    • I agree, the thin font is annoying, I have no problems with vision. But for some reason it's also ridiculously big, I had to turn my browser's zoom to 67% because it was hard to…
      Avamander on HN
    • Skelton user here. Nice to see this effort but some issues. Your page margins are too thin on mobile and the typography is off. Line height to font size to rendered stroke width…
      ComputerGuru on HN
  • Modern CSS Grid may make this unnecessary

    From 2 comments
    • Do you even need stuff like this when we have CSS Grid now?
      bbmario on HN
    • I used to use skeleton until CSS Grid support became widespread.
      velcrovan on HN

Requests

  • Use higher-contrast text colors

    From 2 comments
    • Ditch the thin light-grey font on white background. I have 20/20 vision and I have to attain my eyes to read the text.
      dmitriid on HN
    • Try #767676 (contrast ratio against #fff = AA 4.54:1), neutral gray and closest to the official minimum recommendation (4.5:1) for body text.
      deltron3030 on HN
  • Provide a minified version and state minified and gzipped sizes

    From 3 comments
    • I really love you have picked up from skeleton / milligram. A suggestion, you might want to included a minified version of the css because it looks to be 22kb and you’ll be…
      alberth on HN
    • Suggestion: tell me up front the minimized size and minimized + gzipped size. Otherwise looks pretty good, so the size decides whether it’s lightweight enough for certain projects.
      oefrha on HN
    • If the idea is to edit the single file, rather than include it and an override - would it make sense to distribute a minified version? Also, what's the difference after…
      e12e on HN
  • Make overriding and theming clearer on the homepage

    From 1 comment
    • > also reorganized the CSS to make it easier to override it I think this could/should be made more clear on the homeppage. I generally prefer cascading styles (base+override) -…
      e12e on HN
  • Replace Skeleton with Barebones

    From 1 comment
    • Skeleton lib fell away and was forked and revitalized as Barebones which is better, then Skeleton had the resurgance as it were, but still, may I suggest you replace Skeleton…
      webappguy on HN

Questions

  • What were the specific issues with Skeleton and Milligram?

    From 1 comment
    • What were the issues with skeleton/milligram that you are looking to fix? I have never used either library, but have considered them both in the past.
      CGamesPlay on HN
  • Are there other mature alternatives to Bootstrap?

    From 1 comment
    • Are there other similar options, but are also mature, lean, well maintained and a good enough replacement for Bootstrap for most common components/layouts?
      wtmt on HN

Alternatives named

  • Barebones

    From 1 comment
    • Skeleton lib fell away and was forked and revitalized as Barebones which is better, then Skeleton had the resurgance as it were, but still, may I suggest you replace Skeleton…
      webappguy on HN
  • Bulma

    From 1 comment
    • https://semantic-ui.com would come to mind. There is also a well maintained react fork available. Another one is https://bulma.io which is less blown up.
      razemio on HN
  • Semantic UI

    From 1 comment
    • https://semantic-ui.com would come to mind. There is also a well maintained react fork available. Another one is https://bulma.io which is less blown up.
      razemio on HN
  • Spectre CSS

    From 1 comment

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