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Blueprint (CSS framework)

Blueprint is a CSS framework designed to reduce development time and ensure cross-browser compatibility when working with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). It also serves as a foundation for many tools designed to make CSS development easier and more accessible to beginners.

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Blueprint
Final release
1.0.1 / May 14, 2011 (2011-05-14)1
LicenseMIT License
Websitewww.blueprintcss.org
Repositorygithub.com/joshuaclayton/blueprint-css

Blueprint is a CSS framework designed to reduce development time and ensure cross-browser compatibility when working with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). It also serves as a foundation for many tools designed to make CSS development easier and more accessible to beginners.

History

Blueprint was first created by Olav Bjørkøy and released on August 3, 2007.2 By August 11, Blueprint included work based on ideas from Jeff Croft, Nathan Borror, Christian Metts, and Eric A. Meyer.3 Version 0.8 was released on November 11, and included various bugfixes as well as a new "tabs" plugin.4

Purpose

One of the goals stated by the core team is to facilitate the development of new tools for working with CSS.5 A variety of CSS generators, visual editors, themes, and frameworks are based on Blueprint, many of which can be found on the Blueprint Wiki.67

License

Blueprint is released under a modified version of the MIT License, making it free software. It can be either used as is, or further adapted for use via a compression tool that is written in Ruby.

Features

Blueprint's README file lists the following features as being provided out-of-the-box:

  • A typographic baseline
  • A stylesheet for printing
  • An easily customizable grid
  • Sensible default typography
  • Perfected browser CSS reset
  • Powerful scripts for customization8
  • Bloat Minimized as much as possible
See also

See also

References

References

  1. "joshuaclayton/blueprint-css". GitHub. Retrieved 23 April 2020. This repository has been archived by the owner. It is now read-only.
  2. Launch: Blueprint, a CSS framework. bjorkoy.com (2007-8-3).
  3. CSS Frameworks for Front-end Developers. byteswire.com. Retrieved on 2014-09-01.
  4. Blueprint version 0.8. (Archived) Christianmontoya.com. Retrieved on 2012-09-11.
  5. Semantify, and CSS tools based on Blueprint Archived January 16, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. Christianmontoya.com. Retrieved on 2012-09-11.
  6. Mods, Forks and Alternatives Archived 2010-03-30 at the Wayback Machine. Wiki.github.com (2012-03-31). Retrieved on 2012-09-11.
  7. "Multilingual Website Development: How to Build for 5+ Languages". 2026-04-04. Retrieved 2026-04-21.
  8. Impact of video size on website load times Video Compressor. Retrieved on 2023-03-07.
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