# dropbox/css-style-guide

Dropbox’s (S)CSS authoring style guide

Repository: https://github.com/dropbox/css-style-guide
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/css-style-guide
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2019-11-08T08:25:39+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3964, "days_push": 2490, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1215, forks 82 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:01.004351+00:00)

## What it is
Dropbox's open-source style guide for authoring CSS and SCSS, covering formatting, spacing, selector conventions, and anti-patterns to avoid. It is a documentation resource rather than executable software.

## Use cases
- establish css coding standards for a team
- learn scss best practices
- decide how to format css selectors
- avoid specificity issues in stylesheets
- create a company frontend style guide
- review css code against conventions

## When to choose
- you want a battle-tested css/scss convention set from a large engineering org
- you are writing or adopting a frontend style guide
- you use Sass and want nesting and formatting rules

## When to avoid
- you need a linter or automated enforcement tool rather than prose guidelines
- you want a css framework or component library
- you need actively updated guidance - the repo has not seen releases since 2019

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: maintenance
- function: documentation, css-framework
- domain: web-development, frontend, documentation
- platform: -
- tags: css, scss, sass, style-guide, coding-standards, dropbox, web-server

## Member repositories
- dropbox/css-style-guide (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:01.004351+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 2026-08-30T06:17:15.747491+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/dropbox/css-style-guide (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:01.004351+00:00, sha d819990f9963)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.