# Basscss Low-level CSS toolkit [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/basscss/basscss.svg)](https://travis-ci.org/basscss/basscss) [![npm version](https://badge.fury.io/js/basscss.svg)](https://badge.fury.io/js/basscss) ## Lightning-Fast Modular CSS with No Side Effects Basscss is a lightweight collection of immutable utilities designed for speed, clarity, performance, and scalability. ## Features ### Code with Confidence Using clear, humanized naming conventions, Basscss is quick to internalize and easy to reason about while speeding up development time with more scalable, more readable code. ### No Side Effects Things behave exactly as expected with immutable utilities and styles that follow the open/closed principle to help prevent common pitfalls with CSS. ### Composable Reusable, interoperable styles work like building blocks to lay the foundation for any stylesheet and can be mixed and matched in any number of combinations. ## Designed for Design Basscss strikes a balance between consistency and flexibility to allow for rapid prototyping and quick iterative changes when designing in the browser. ## Responsive by Default Basscss provides lightweight, performant styles and flexible utilities to design for any device and to help reduce boilerplate in stylesheets. ## Unassuming Modular and customizable typography and layout styles don’t dictate what things should look like and play well with other stylesheets and frameworks. [Read More](http://basscss.com) --- ## Base styles The core Basscss package does not include any base element styles. For an out-of-the-box solution, see: https://github.com/basscss/basic ## Addons In addition to the core modules, optional modules, including responsive margin, padding, layout, and typography styles, can be found here: https://github.com/basscss/addons ## Ace.css For a bundle with the core Basscss and all optional modules, see: https://github.com/basscss/ace --- ## Contributing See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) --- [MIT license](LICENSE.md)