Frankenstyle is the spiritual successor to Franken UI — our first project that fused UIkit with Tailwind CSS. This time, we’re rebuilding from the ground up with a sharper focus on simplicity, flexibility, and long-term maintainability.
The documentation website is still being updated, but you can refer to the context files for the most accurate and up-to-date information.
Here’s the current state of the project and where we’re headed next.
While Franken UI relied on mature libraries like Tailwind CSS and UIkit, the goal now is to build a more granular, robust, and future-proof foundation — essentially, our own ecosystem. The project is split into three parts:
- Frankenstyle – A no-build, value-driven, fully responsive, utility-first CSS framework.
- Headless Web Components (HWC) – A collection of unstyled, fully accessible, commonly used web components.
- FrankenstyleKit – The fusion of the two, featuring its own opinionated design system inspired by
coss ui.
Both Frankenstyle and HWC are fully detached and can be used independently — hence the creation of FrankenstyleKit.
- Frankenstyle – Development is very active and open to the community.
- Franken UI – Now in Long-Term Support (LTS). No new features will be added, but bug fixes and dependency updates are guaranteed.
Right now, the project is unsustainable — it has no commercial backing or paid projects and relies solely on donors, a few sponsors from Franken UI, and, of course, my own boredom and availability.
There’s a lot to do, and I’d love to see this project thrive. If you’d like to support the work, you can do so here:
- GitHub Sponsors: https://github.com/sponsors/sveltecult
- Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/sveltecult
Licensed under the MIT License.