Minimal CSS Framework for Semantic HTML

Blades CSS is a modern drop‑in successor to Pico CSS.

Just switch pico.css to blades.css— and voilà!

Story From Pico to Blades CSS

Nov 2026

Blades CSS v3.1.1 released.

Development continues under Blades CSS which has already reached 400 stars ✨ and yours would be greatly appreciated too!
Oct 2026

Pico CSS officially no longer maintained.

Sep 2026
Netlify granted an Open Source plan to Blades.
Blades CSS v3 released.
Build Awesome One¹ kit for Blades released.
Jun–Aug 2026
Font Awesome kindly provided a #blades channel on their Discord.
FastHTML switched to our underlying Pico fork.
Flask & Jinja community website switched to Blades.
Grav CMS v2 chose Blades.
May 11, 2026

Blades CSS v2.2 emerged.

From standalone CSS helpers ...
Dec 2025
Breakout CSS v1 released.
May 2018
Atomic Modal v0 released.
Mar 2018
Atomic Carousel v0 and Gallery v0 released.
Oct 2016
Float Label CSS v1 released.
... and fork of original Pico:
Mar 2025
Last Pico CSS v2.1.1 released.
Feb 2024
Pico CSS v2 released.
Dec 2019
Pico CSS v1 released.

Documentation

If you know Pico — you already know Blades:

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