# picocss/pico

> Pico is a minimal CSS framework that styles semantic HTML elements by default, so pages look clean and responsive without writing custom CSS. It is archived and no longer maintained; v2.1.1 is the final release.

- Magnitude: 0.7 out of 10 — Quiet
- Stars: 16,828 total · +0 stars measured 2026-10-30, 03:05–04:36 UTC, ≈ 0 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Web & frontend · Language: CSS · License: MIT · Created: 2019-11-15 · Last push: 2026-10-04
- GitHub: https://github.com/picocss/pico · Homepage: https://picocss.com · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/picocss/pico

## Useful for

- Build a small static site or prototype with plain HTML and no custom CSS
- Add light and dark theme support to a page via the precompiled CDN themes
- Use the classless version to get a centered or fluid layout from bare HTML

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-30 (UTC), 03:05–04:36: 16829 → 16828 stars (-1). This is the change over that interval.
- Hacker News: “Pico CSS is no longer maintained” — 68 points, 2 h ago.
- The repository is archived — the author no longer develops it.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 510
- Issues and pull requests: 531
- Watchers: 80
- Average over the last week: 0 per day
- Usual pace: 0 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): -1
- Latest release: v2.1.1 (2025-03-15)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-01 … 2026-10-30: 2, 2, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0

## Hacker News

- Pico CSS is no longer maintained — 68 points, 20 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298964

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

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   A minimalist classless-first CSS framework: plain semantic HTML looks finished out of the box, and classes are only needed for specific cases. One 6.7 KB file with no build step or JavaScript, plus dark mode and CSS-variable theming.
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