Minimal CSS Framework for Semantic HTML

Fully compatible and actively maintained successor to Pico CSS.

Introduces float labels, breakout container and other modern, opt-out helpers. Simply switch pico.css to blades.css OR use blades.standalone.css with other frameworks.

Story From Pico to Blades CSS

August
FastHTML switched to our underlying Pico CSS fork!
Awesome Discord opened a channel for #blades — join now!
July
🌟 Blades hit 300! Support us with a star if you haven't yet.
11ty / Build Awesome Kit for Blades released,
powering the best-in-class Content-First Starter.
June
Flask & Jinja community website switched to Blades.
Grav CMS v2 migrated to Blades, including the official Devtools Plugin.
May 11, 2026

Blades CSS v2.2.0 emerged.

From standalone CSS helpers ...
Apr 2026
Standalone Blades CSS v0 released.
Dec 2025
Standalone CSS helpers consolidation started.
Breakout CSS v1 released.
 
Mar 2018
Atomic Gallery v0 and
Atomic Carousel v0 released.
Oct 2016
Float Label CSS v1 released.
... and original Pico CSS fork:
Apr 2026
Pico CSS fork v2.2.0 released.
... no updates for 1 year
Mar 2025
Pico CSS v2.1.1 last update.
 
Dec 2019
Pico CSS v1 released.

Documentation

If you know Pico — you already know Blades:

Credits