# jensimmons/cssremedy

Start your project with a remedy for the technical debt of CSS.

Repository: https://github.com/jensimmons/cssremedy
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/cssremedy
Language: CSS
License: MPL-2.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2022-07-07T22:11:37+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": 2792, "days_push": 1518, "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 2224, forks 113 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:27.931458+00:00)

## What it is
CSS Remedy is a modern CSS reset/base stylesheet that sets default styles to what the CSS Working Group would design today, free of legacy backwards-compatibility constraints. It provides a core remedy.css plus optional opinionated remedy files to start projects with sensible modern defaults.

## Use cases
- reset browser default styles in a new project
- replace normalize.css with modern CSS defaults
- start a website with a sensible CSS baseline
- fix inconsistent default styling across browsers
- reduce CSS technical debt from legacy UA stylesheets
- get opinionated base styles for forms and quotes

## When to choose
- starting a new web project that needs a modern CSS baseline
- you want defaults reflecting current CSSWG thinking rather than Mosaic-era behavior
- you need a lightweight alternative to normalize.css or Eric Meyer's reset

## When to avoid
- you need a battle-tested, production-hardened reset for large legacy codebases
- you must support very old browsers beyond IE 11
- you need a full component or utility CSS framework

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: experimental
- function: css-framework, ui-components
- domain: web-development, frontend, web-design
- platform: browser, cross-platform
- tags: css-reset, normalize-css, base-stylesheet, modern-css-defaults, stylesheet

## Member repositories
- jensimmons/cssremedy (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:27.931458+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 2026-08-30T02:44:59.581561+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jensimmons/cssremedy (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:27.931458+00:00, sha d8b07e8eab43)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.