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# Spectre.css
Spectre.css is a lightweight, responsive and modern CSS framework for faster and extensible development.
- Lightweight (~10KB gzipped) starting point for your projects
- Flexbox-based, responsive and mobile-friendly layout
- Elegantly designed and developed elements and components
Spectre is a side project based on years of CSS development work on a large web service project. Spectre only includes modern base styles, responsive layout system, CSS components and utilities, and it can be modified for your project with LESS compiler.
Spectre.css is completely free to use. If you enjoy it, please consider [donating via Paypal](https://www.paypal.me/picturepan2) for the further development. ♥
### Getting started
There are 5 ways to get started with Spectre CSS framework in your projects. You can either manually install or use NPM, Yarn and Bower.
#### Install manually
Download the compiled and minified [Spectre CSS file](https://github.com/picturepan2/spectre/tree/master/docs/dist). And include `spectre.css` located in `/docs/dist` in your website or Web app <head> part.
`<link rel="stylesheet" href="spectre.min.css" />`
#### Install from CDN
Alternatively, you can use the [unpkg](https://unpkg.com/) CDN to load compiled Spectre.css.
`<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/spectre.css/dist/spectre.min.css" />`
#### Install with NPM
`$ npm install spectre.css --save`
#### Install with Yarn
`$ yarn add spectre.css`
#### Install with Bower
`$ bower install spectre.css --save`
### Compiling custom version
You can compile your custom version of Spectre.css. Read [the documentation](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/getting-started.html#compiling).
### Documentation and examples
#### Elements
- [Typography](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/elements.html#typography) - headings, paragraphs, semantic text, blockquote, lists and code elements, optimized for east asian fonts
- [Tables](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/elements.html#tables) - organize and display data
- [Buttons](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/elements.html#buttons) - button styles in different types and sizes, and even button groups
- [Forms](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/elements.html#forms) - input, radio, checkbox, switch and other form elements
- [Icons](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/elements.html#icons) - single-element, responsive and pure CSS icons
- [Labels](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/elements.html#labels) - formatted text tags for highlighted, informative information
- [Codes](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/elements.html#codes) - inline and multiline code snippets
- [Media](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/elements.html#media) - responsive images, figures and video classes
#### Layout
- [Flexbox grid](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/layout.html#grid) - flexbox based responsive grid system
- [Responsive](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/layout.html#responsive) - responsive grid and utilities
- [Navbar](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/layout.html#navbar) - layout container that appears in the header of apps and websites
#### Components
- [Accordions](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/components.html#accordions) - used to toggle sections of content
- [Autocomplete](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/components.html#autocomplete) - form component provides suggestions while you type
- [Avatars](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/components.html#avatars) - user profile pictures or name initials rendered avatar
- [Badges](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/components.html#badges) - unread number indicators
- [Breadcrumbs](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/components.html#breadcrumbs) - navigational hierarchy
- [Bars](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/components.html#bars) - progress of a task or the value within the known range
- [Cards](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/components.html#cards) - flexible content containers
- [Chips](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/components.html#chips) - complex entities in small blocks
- [Empty states](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/components.html#empty) - empty states/blank slates for first time use, empty data and error screens
- [Menus](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/components.html#menus) - list of links or buttons for actions and navigation
- [Navs](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/components.html#navs) - navigational list of links
- [Modals](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/components.html#modals) - flexible dialog prompts
- [Pagination](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/components.html#pagination) - navigational links for multiple pages
- [Panels](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/components.html#panels) - flexible view container with auto-expand content section
- [Popovers](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/components.html#popovers) - small overlay content containers
- [Steps](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/components.html#steps) - progress indicators of a sequence of task steps
- [Tabs](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/components.html#tabs) - toggle for different views
- [Tiles](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/components.html#tiles) - repeatable or embeddable information blocks
- [Toasts](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/components.html#toasts) - showing alerts or notifications
- [Tooltips](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/components.html#tooltips) - simple tooltip built entirely in CSS
#### Utilities
- [Utilities](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/utilities.html) - colors, display, divider, loading, position, shapes and text utilities
#### Experimentals
- [Calendars](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/experimentals.html#calendars) - date or date range picker and events display
- [Carousels](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/experimentals.html#carousels) - slideshows for cycling images
- [Comparison Sliders](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/experimentals.html#comparison) - sliders for comparing two images, built entirely in CSS
- [Filters](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/experimentals.html#carousels) - CSS only content filters
- [Meters](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/experimentals.html#meters) - representing the value within the known range
- [Parallax](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/experimentals.html#parallax) - acting like Apple TV/tvOS hover parallax effect, built entirely in CSS
- [Progress](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/experimentals.html#progress) - indicators for the progress completion of a task
- [Sliders](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/experimentals.html#sliders) - selecting values from ranges
- [Timelines](https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/experimentals.html#timelines) - ordered sequences of activities
### Browser support
Spectre uses [Autoprefixer](https://github.com/postcss/autoprefixer) to make most styles compatible with earlier browsers and [Normalize.css](https://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/) for CSS resets. Spectre is designed for modern browsers. For best compatibility, these browsers are recommended:
- Chrome (last 4)
- Microsoft Edge (last 4)
- Firefox (last 4)
- Safari (last 4)
- Opera (last 4)
- Internet Explorer 10+
Designed and built with ♥ by [Yan Zhu](https://twitter.com/picturepan2). Feel free to submit a pull request. Help is always appreciated.
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