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Front-end Frameworks v2.5
A collection of best front-end frameworks for faster and easier web development.
You can Compare all front-end frameworks here: http://usablica.github.com/front-end-frameworks/compare.html
Twitter Bootstrap
Sleek, intuitive, and powerful front-end framework for faster and easier web development.
Responsive: Yes
Website: http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/
Foundation
The most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world.
Foundation 3 is built with Sass, a powerful CSS preprocessor, which allows us to much more quickly develop Foundation itself and gives you new tools to quickly customize and build on top of Foundation.
Responsive: Yes
Website: http://foundation.zurb.com/
960 Grid System
Simple grid system
The 960 Grid System is an effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels. There are two variants: 12 and 16 columns, which can be used separately or in tandem.
Responsive: Yes
Website: http://960.gs/
Skeleton
A Beautiful Boilerplate for Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Development.
Skeleton is a small collection of CSS files that can help you rapidly develop sites that look beautiful at any size, be it a 17" laptop screen or an iPhone.
Responsive: Yes
Website: http://www.getskeleton.com/
99lime HTML KickStart
Ultra–Lean HTML Building Blocks for Rapid Website Production.
HTML KickStart is an ultra–lean set of HTML5, CSS, and jQuery (javascript) files, layouts, and elements designed to give you a headstart and save you 10's of hours on your next web project.
Responsive: No
Website: http://www.99lime.com/
Kube
CSS-framework for professional developers.
Minimal and enough. Adaptive and responsive. Revolution grid and beautiful typography. No imposed styles and freedom.
Responsive: Yes
Website: http://imperavi.com/kube/
Less Framework
An adaptive CSS grid system.
Less Framework is a CSS grid system for designing adaptive websites. It contains 4 layouts and 3 sets of typography presets, all based on a single grid.
Responsive: Yes
Website: http://lessframework.com/
Flaminwork
The tiny front-end framework for lazy developers.
Responsive: No
Website: http://flaminwork.com/
G5 Framework
(X)HTML5, CSS3, PHP & jQuery Front End Framework.
G5 Framework started as a personal project. In an attempt to speed up workflow, reuse the best coding practices & similar coding techniques, the framework serves as a starter file for new websites.
Responsive: No
Website: http://framework.gregbabula.info/
Easy Framework
Your new starting point for every front-end projects!
Easy is a CSS/HTML/JavaScript framework started as a personal project and then grew into something more. The idea behind it is to reduce the amount of time spent on setting up the basic master HTML template by reusing the same coding techniques.
Responsive: No
Website: http://easyframework.com/
Blueprint
Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your development time. It gives you a solid foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, useful plugins, and even a stylesheet for printing.
Responsive: No
Website: http://www.blueprintcss.org/
YAML
“Yet Another Multicolumn Layout” (YAML)
YAML is an (X)HTML/CSS framework for creating modern and flexible floated layouts. The structure is extremely versatile in its programming and absolutely accessible for end users.
Responsive: Yes
Website: http://www.yaml.de/
BlueTrip
A full featured and beautiful CSS framework which originally combined the best of Blueprint, Tripoli (hence the name), Hartija, 960.gs, and Elements, but has now found a life of its own.
Responsive: No
Website: http://bluetrip.org/
YUI CSS
Simple CSS for the web
The foundational YUI CSS is an extremely lightweight layer of responsive CSS for your projects. It offers a customizable responsive grid , along with styling for forms, tables, menus, popovers, notifications, images and more. Plays nice with YUI's JavaScript Framework.
Responsive: Yes
Website: https://tilomitra.github.com/
Elements
Elements is a down to earth CSS framework.
It was built to help designers write CSS faster and more efficient. Elements goes beyond being just a framework, it’s its own project workflow.It has everything you need to complete your project, which makes you and your clients happy.
Responsive: No
Website: http://elements.projectdesigns.org/
52framework
With HTML5 support coming so fast, with the tiniest of hacks we are able to use it today in virtually al browsers. Using HTML5 makes for much cleaner mark up. This framework fully uses all the great advantages of HTML5.
Responsive: No
Website: http://52framework.com/
elastiCSS
A simple css framework to layout web-based interfaces, based on the printed layout techniques of 4 columns but with capabilities to unlimited column combinations. and capacity to make elastic, fixed and liquid layout easily
Responsive: No
Website: http://elasticss.com/
Boilerplate
noun standardized pieces of text for use as clauses in contracts or as part of a computer program.
As one of the original authors of Blueprint CSS I’ve decided to re-factor my ideas into a stripped down framework which provides the bare essentials to begin any project. This framework will be lite and strive not to suggest un-semantic naming conventions. You’re the designer and your craft is important.
Responsive: No
Website: http://code.google.com/p/css-boilerplate/
Emastic
Emastic is a CSS Framework, it’s continuing mission: to explore a strange new world, to seek out new life and new web spaces, to boldly go where no CSS Framework has gone before.
Responsive: No
Website: http://code.google.com/p/emastic/
Malo
Malo is ultra small css library for building web sites.
Malo is ultra small css library for building web sites. It is meant to be structural base for small or medium web sites. Malo derives from it’s bigger brother Emastic CSS Framework.
Responsive: No
Website: http://code.google.com/p/malo/
The Golden Grid
The Golden Grid is a web grid system. It 's a product of the search for the perfect modern grid system. It 's meant to be a CSS tool for grid based web sites.
Responsive: No
Website: http://code.google.com/p/the-golden-grid/
1kb grid
Other CSS frameworks try to do everything—grid system, style reset, basic typography, form styles. But complex systems are, well, complex. Looking for a simple, lightweight approach that doesn't require a PhD? Meet The 1KB CSS Grid.
Responsive: No
Website: http://www.1kbgrid.com/
Fluid 960 Grid System
The Fluid 960 Grid System templates have been built upon the work of Nathan Smith and his 960 Grid System using effects from the MooTools and jQuery JavaScript libraries.
Responsive: No
Website: http://www.designinfluences.com/fluid960gs/
Baseline
Baseline is a framework built around the idea of a “real” baseline grid.
Built with typographic standards in mind, Baseline makes it easy to develop a website with a pleasing grid and good typography. Baseline starts with several files to reset the browser’s default behavior, build a basic typographic layout — including style for HTML forms and new HTML 5 elements — and build a simple grid system.
Responsive: No
Website: http://www.baselinecss.com/
Lovely CSS Framework
The Lovely CSS Framework is a simple and straight forward way to easily deploy an XHTML/CSS site.
Based on a simple 960px wide grid system, featuring multiple column layouts, and various pluggable add-ons.
Responsive: No
Website: http://code.google.com/p/lovely-css/
xCSS
Object-Oriented CSS Framework
xCSS bases on CSS and empowers a straightforward and object-oriented workflow when developing complex style cascades. Using xCSS means a dramatic cut down to your development time by: having a intuitive overview of the overall CSS structure, using variables, re-using existing style cascades and many other handy features.
Responsive: No
Website: http://xcss.antpaw.org/
FEM CSS Framework
FEM CSS Framework is a 960px width + 12 column grid system + CSS common styles, to easy and fast develop web layouts. It is based in the 960 Grid System, but with a twist in the philosophy to make it more flexible and faster to play with boxes.
Responsive: No
Website: http://www.frontendmatters.com/projects/fem-css-framework/
Helium
Helium is a framework for rapid prototyping and production-ready development. In many ways it's similar to both Twitter Bootstrap and ZURB Foundation - in fact, it uses bits of their code. Unlike either of these two frameworks, however, Helium is designed to be much more lightweight and easier to tinker with.
Responsive: Yes