# beercss/beercss

Build material design interfaces in record time... without stress for devs... 🍺💛

Repository: https://github.com/beercss/beercss
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/beercss
Homepage: https://www.beercss.com
Language: Vue
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: design-system, material, material-3, material-design-3, material-you, semantic-html, css, material-3-design, material-3-expressive, html, web
Last push: 2026-08-04T19:40:11+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 96/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 96, release rhythm 95, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2093, "days_push": 29, "days_rel": 34, "gap_med": 12.5, "n_releases_24m": 33}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2576, forks 98 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:02.217086+00:00)

## What it is
Beer CSS is a lightweight CSS framework (about 14.5kb brotli) for building Material Design 3 interfaces using semantic HTML. It is framework-agnostic and MIT-licensed, aimed at letting developers create material-styled UIs quickly.

## Use cases
- build material design 3 interfaces quickly
- style web apps with material you design
- add material design components with plain semantic html
- find a lightweight css framework for material design
- create responsive material design websites without javascript frameworks

## When to choose
- you want Material Design 3 styling with minimal bundle size
- you prefer semantic HTML over component libraries
- you use any JS framework or none and just need CSS

## When to avoid
- you need complex interactive components with built-in JavaScript behavior
- you don't want Material Design as your visual language
- you need a full component library with React/Vue bindings

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: css-framework, ui-components
- domain: web-development, frontend, web-design
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: material-design-3, material-you, semantic-html, design-system, lightweight, web-server

## Member repositories
- beercss/beercss (main) score 96

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:02.217086+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:22:42.828891+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/beercss/beercss (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:02.217086+00:00, sha 2cee107b5adf)
  - homepage: https://www.beercss.com (fetched 2026-08-29T10:05:39.444738+00:00, sha 34f9f2297e5b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.