Base is a super simple, responsive open source framework built to work on mobile devices, tablets, netbooks and desktop computers.
Base is developed in LESS, a powerful CSS pre-processor that helps you write cleaner, more organized, well structured CSS that you can easily maintain over time.
Base supports all major browsers and legacy browsers.
Features include:
- Easy to learn – well organised and commented CSS.
- Responsive design – built for all devices big and small.
- Built on Normalize.css and includes most styles and layout.
- Base stylesheet has styles for typography, headings, tables, blockquotes, form elements and more.
- Grid system – uses a variation of the 960 grid system. The syntax is super simple
- Typography – has a global default font size of 14px.
- Supported browsers include Firefox, Chrome, and IE7+.
- Basic HTML5 template which includes jQuery to get you started.
- LESS and SASS files to easily customise your base stylesheet.
- PSD grid based on 960.gs.
- HTML5 support for legacy versions of Internet Explorer.
- All three sizes of Apple touch icons for iPhone 3, iPad and iPhone 4 with retina + the standard favicon for all other web browsers.
Website: github.com/getbase/base
Support: Documentation
Developer: Matthew Hartman
License: MIT License
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