Semantic first
Style the HTML you already write. Buttons, forms, tables, dialogs and details look right with no classes.
Open source, MIT
Minimal CSS for semantic HTML
A plain modern CSS rewrite of Pico CSS. Write the markup, get a clean, accessible, themeable page.
Quick install
CDN
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@rusticstack/pico-reforged@1/css/pico.min.css" />npm
npm install @rusticstack/pico-reforgedPlain HTML in, good looking page out
<form>
<fieldset role="group">
<input type="email" placeholder="Enter your email" aria-label="Email" />
<input type="submit" value="Subscribe" />
</fieldset>
<label>
<input type="checkbox" role="switch" checked />
Send me release notes
</label>
</form>What you get
Classless
A build with every class selector removed, for content sites, Markdown output and quick prototypes.
20 themes and your own
Twenty ready-made color themes, or one hex color that becomes a full 19-step OKLCH scale.
Modern CSS
Cascade layers, light-dark(), OKLCH, native popover and anchor positioning. No Sass, no polyfills.
Opt-in extras
Tabs, alert, toast, badge, avatar, skeleton, app shell, data table, pagination, stepper and empty state.
Safe purge
Vite and PostCSS plugins drop unused rules at build time. Safe mode never removes a rule it cannot prove unused.
AI ready
llms.txt, llms-full.txt, a Markdown copy of every page and an agent skill that knows the rules.
Where it comes from
Pico Reforged is a rewrite of Pico CSS v2.1.1 by Lucas Larroche, released under the MIT license. The upstream project is archived. This one keeps the same class names, tokens and CDN file names so existing pages keep working, and moves the source from Sass to plain CSS. Migration guide