# cyanharlow/purecss-francine

HTML/CSS drawing in the style of an 18th-century oil painting. Hand-coded entirely in HTML & CSS.

Repository: https://github.com/cyanharlow/purecss-francine
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/purecss-francine
Language: CSS
License Family: other
Last push: 2023-11-06T06:50:37+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3357, "days_push": 1031, "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 7762, forks 497 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:04.828307+00:00)

## What it is
Pure CSS Francine is a hand-coded artwork depicting an 18th-century oil painting style portrait created entirely with HTML and CSS, with no images, SVG, or JavaScript. It is part of an ongoing series of CSS art by the author and is best viewed in Chrome.

## Use cases
- view a portrait drawn purely in CSS
- study advanced CSS techniques for drawing shapes and shading
- find inspiration for creative coding projects
- demo of what CSS can do without images or JavaScript
- example for talks about CSS capabilities

## When to choose
- you want to explore or learn extreme CSS rendering techniques
- you need a striking demo of CSS-only art
- you are studying hand-coded CSS shading and shape construction

## When to avoid
- you need cross-browser compatibility (it targets Chrome only)
- you need a reusable component or library
- you need production-ready, maintained code

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: graphics, animation
- domain: web-development, frontend, graphics, web-design
- platform: browser
- tags: css-art, pure-css, html-css, digital-art, oil-painting, demo, creative-coding, web-server

## Member repositories
- cyanharlow/purecss-francine (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:04.828307+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 2026-08-29T17:35:08.127122+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/cyanharlow/purecss-francine (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:04.828307+00:00, sha b7c3d30432ec)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.