# north/north

Design and development standards to align and guide your project.

Repository: https://github.com/north/north
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/north
Homepage: http://pointnorth.io
Language: CSS
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2016-01-07T16:43:56+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4681, "days_push": 3891, "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 4794, forks 283 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:59.971419+00:00)

## What it is
North is a set of design and development standards and best practices for modern web projects, covering the full lifecycle from project kickoff through development. It is a versioned, living documentation resource distributed as a Bower dependency rather than executable software.

## Use cases
- establish coding and design standards for a web team
- guide agile scrum processes and user story writing
- define content strategy and information architecture for a website
- adopt a mobile-first, in-browser design approach
- onboard new team members to project conventions
- reference grid system and visual design best practices

## When to choose
- you need a comprehensive, opinionated baseline of web project standards to adapt
- your team wants shared vocabulary for process, content strategy, and front-end design
- you want versioned standards you can pin as a project dependency

## When to avoid
- you need executable tooling, linters, or automation rather than written guidelines
- you require up-to-date standards reflecting modern practices, as the project has not been updated since 2016
- your stack is not web-focused

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: abandoned
- function: documentation, developer-tools
- domain: web-development, web-design, developer-tools, documentation, tutorials
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: best-practices, style-guide, standards, agile, content-strategy, design-system, living-document, web-server

## Member repositories
- north/north (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:59.971419+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 2026-08-29T18:18:40.717006+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/north/north (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:59.971419+00:00, sha 3a39e6aec00c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.