Functional css for humans

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TACHYONS

Functional css for humans.

Quickly build and design new UI without writing css.

Principles

Everything should be 100% responsive
Everything should be readable on any device
Everything should be as fast as possible
Designing in the browser should be easy
It should be easy to change any interface or part of an interface without breaking any existing interfaces
Doing one thing extremely well promotes reusability and reduces repetition
Documentation helps promote reusability and shared knowledge
Css shouldn't impede accessibility or the default functionality of Html
You should send the smallest possible amount of code to the user

Features

Mobile-first css architecture
490 accessible color combinations
8px baseline grid
Multiple debugging utilities to reduce layout struggles
Single-purpose class structure
Optimized for maximum gzip compression
Lightweight (~14kB)
Usable across projects
Growing open source component library
Works well with plain html, react, ember, angular, rails, and more
Infinitely nestable responsive grid system
Built with Postcss

Getting started

Docs can be found at http://tachyons.io/docs The modules are generally pretty small and thus quick and easy to read.

Use the CDN

The quickest and easiest way to start using tachyons is to include a reference to the minified file in the head of your html file.

You can always grab the latest version with

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/tachyons/css/tachyons.min.css">

You can also specify a specific version. The latest version is 4.6.1

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/tachyons@4.6.1/css/tachyons.min.css">

Local Setup

Clone the repo from github and install dependencies through npm.

git clone https://github.com/tachyons-css/tachyons.git
cd tachyons
npm install

Dev

If you want to just use everything in tachyons/src as a jumping off point and edit all the code yourself, you can compile all of your wonderful changes by running

npm start

This will output both minified and unminified versions of the css to the css directory and watch the src directory for changes. It's aliased to the command:

npm run build:watch

If you'd like to just build the css once without watching the src directory run

npm run build

If you want to check that a class hasn't been redefined or 'mutated' there is a linter to check that all of the classes have only been defined once. This can be useful if you are using another library or have written some of your own css and want to make sure there are no naming collisions. To do this run the command

npm run mutations

Docs

The tachyons docs located at http://tachyons.io are all open source and located at https://github.com/tachyons-css/tachyons-css.github.io

You can clone the docs and use them as a template for documenting your own design system / patterns / components. While not everything is automated, the component library generation makes it extremely easy to generate and organize the documentation for components as demonstrated at http://tachyons.io/components

Contributing

Please read our code of conduct for contributors.

Websites that Use Tachyons

(if you have a project that uses Tachyons feel free to make a PR to add it to this list)

And of course...

http://tachyons.io

Help

If you have a question or need help feel free to open an issue here or jump into the Tachyons slack channel.

License

MIT