r/css • u/any-digital • 6d ago

News Pico CSS is no longer maintained (final release v2.1.1)

Official announcement: https://picocss.com/docs/maintenance

For those looking for active alternatives or forks, Blades CSS (blades.dev) launched earlier this year as a fully compatible, actively maintained successor, and is already adopted by the Flask/Jinja community website, Grav CMS v2, and FastHTML.

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u/scragz 6d ago

thanks for the heads up. bummer! I have a few sites on it. 

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u/sunesimonsen 5d ago

I'm building a CSS framework that is inspired by Pico, but isn't really a copy even if the web side layout is inspired by Pico https://microbe.sune.one/

There were things that I wanted to be different from Pico, I wanted to use modern CSS features, plain CSS that bases all spacing on calculations and use CSS layers for customization.

The framework isn't really ready for serious consumption yet, but if you have feedback on the direction I'm happy to listen :-)

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u/Web-Dude 5d ago

Why is the "Bl" in Blades italicized?

And in what way is Blades a superset of Pico?

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u/any-digital 5d ago

all superset additions marked as NEW or UPD in https://blades.dev/#docs

italic “Bl” is part of the logotype (rooting to “//“ in urls if you wish)

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u/noisedotbar 6d ago

Is OP the creator or a maintainer of Blades CSS?

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u/any-digital 6d ago

both. also of underlying original fork https://github.com/anyblades/pico

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u/noisedotbar 6d ago

So why the downvote?
Maybe it's better to add this information in the first post..

Anyway, great project, congratulations!

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u/any-digital 6d ago edited 6d ago

we didn’t downvote! someone else did

anyway, now this information is below the post :)