# franciscop/picnic

:handbag: A beautiful CSS library to kickstart your projects

Repository: https://github.com/franciscop/picnic
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/picnic
Homepage: http://picnicss.com/
Language: CSS
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2024-10-03T17:55:24+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": 4382, "days_push": 699, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3881, forks 225 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:28.025911+00:00)

## What it is
Picnic CSS is a lightweight (~10kb) CSS library written in SCSS that styles native HTML elements without requiring presentation classes. It is modular, MIT-licensed, and includes components like buttons, cards, modals, and navigation with subtle CSS transitions.

## Use cases
- style a quick prototype with semantic HTML
- add beautiful default styling to a new project without writing CSS classes
- build a lightweight responsive page under 10kb of CSS
- customize a CSS framework via SCSS variables
- create forms, buttons, and cards without JavaScript

## When to choose
- starting a new project from scratch where you control the HTML
- you want semantic HTML without utility classes like btn-primary
- you need a tiny, fast-loading CSS footprint for mobile
- you want a SCSS-based framework that is easy to extend

## When to avoid
- working with existing HTML that uses utility-class conventions
- you need a large component ecosystem or complex widgets
- you need support for legacy browsers older than IE11
- building a design system requiring heavy theming and dark mode

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: css-framework, ui-components
- domain: web-development, frontend, web-design
- platform: browser
- tags: css, scss, lightweight, semantic-html, responsive, no-javascript, web-server, nodejs

## Member repositories
- franciscop/picnic (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:28.025911+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 2026-08-29T18:25:42.830909+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/franciscop/picnic (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:28.025911+00:00, sha 466499d10b85)
  - homepage: http://picnicss.com/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:19:43.549629+00:00, sha 6ba695c205f3)
  - site_page: https://picnicss.com/documentation (fetched 2026-08-29T09:19:43.557886+00:00, sha 25f111bc7520)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.