Of course, it's only for my own invoicing/crm system. I started on replacing the look and feel of everything with a flat more modern/less user-friendly equivalent by downloading the static css and modifying it to look like material UI designs.
Is there a name for this style? Im also trying to pinpoint the defining characteristics. The thing that stand out to me are:
- 3d-ish buttons
- gradients (headers, buttons, etc)
- not much whitespace between text
- small text
I've hand written the CSS for all of the sites I've worked on, and the CSS is smaller than some all encompassing library. Plus, I'm much better at CSS. But I decided I wanted to invest that effort. No shame if you don't
https://github.com/dbohdan/classless-css
also, https://github.com/troxler/awesome-css-frameworks
others may give you a _real_ recommendation. cheers
[0]: http://classless.de
It uses classes to style html inline and looks pretty good. The downside is it gives a fairly generic look but I don't think you should be too worried about that.
Tailwind has largely replaced it because it offers more flexibility. You use utility classes to write the css (add padding, change color, etc.) and isnt as opinionated as bootstrap. But I dont think you want that.
If you really are going for lightweight and simple you should checkout classless css which only uses html to style things. Nothing needed from you other than including the css sheet. https://github.com/dbohdan/classless-css