# thoughtbot/bitters

Add a dash of pre-defined style to your Bourbon.

Repository: https://github.com/thoughtbot/bitters
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/bitters
Homepage: https://thoughtbot.com
Language: HTML
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: bourbon, bitters, sass, scss, scaffold, scaffold-styles, css, bourbon-family
Last push: 2021-09-24T16:02:48+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4951, "days_push": 1804, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1362, forks 135 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:30.298775+00:00)

## What it is
Bitters is a set of scaffold styles, Sass variables, and default element styles for web projects, designed to work alongside the Bourbon Sass library. It provides a basic project structure and base styling for typography, forms, buttons, and lists that developers are encouraged to modify and extend.

## Use cases
- scaffold base styles for a new web project
- set up Sass variables and structure with Bourbon
- get default form and button styling quickly
- bootstrap a consistent typography baseline in SCSS
- start a Rails app stylesheet with pre-defined styles

## When to choose
- you already use Bourbon and want matching base styles
- you want a minimal, modifiable Sass starting point rather than a full CSS framework
- you're starting a Ruby on Rails or Sass-based web application

## When to avoid
- you want a full-featured component framework like Bootstrap or Tailwind
- your project doesn't use Sass or Bourbon
- you need actively developed tooling with modern Sass module support

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: css-framework, ui-components, templating
- domain: web-development, frontend, web-design
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: sass, scss, bourbon, scaffold-styles, starter-styles, design-system, web-server

## Member repositories
- thoughtbot/bitters (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:30.298775+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 2026-08-30T04:41:32.130050+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/thoughtbot/bitters (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:30.298775+00:00, sha e360ad62a999)
  - homepage: https://thoughtbot.com (fetched 2026-08-29T11:59:12.523780+00:00, sha 5510254df796)
  - site_page: https://thoughtbot.com/our-company (fetched 2026-08-29T11:59:12.530528+00:00, sha 9e2e18b981fb)
  - site_page: https://thoughtbot.com/case-studies/closeknit-health (fetched 2026-08-29T11:59:12.526511+00:00, sha ec773542ed58)
  - site_page: https://thoughtbot.com/services (fetched 2026-08-29T11:59:12.528665+00:00, sha 5b152b8c27da)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.