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Functional css for humans

10 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 3 stories, 7 comments · first 2016-05-25 · latest 2025-07-22

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  1. …classes, but not tailwind. It's predecessor, Tachyons is small, simple, and all I've ever needed. https://github.com/tachyons-css/tachyons/
    comment by bonthron · 2025-07-22 · in CSS's problems are Tailwind's problems
  2. > Functional css for humans ( https://github.com/tachyons-css/tachyons ) What makes this 'functional'? Is it related to functional programming? Or is it used as a synonym for 'usable'?
    comment by stcg · 2023-07-19 · in Tachyons – A CSS Toolkit
  3. This branch was updated 5 days ago https://github.com/tachyons-css/tachyons/tree/v5-final-final more info on this PR https://github.com/tachyons-css/tachyons/pull/705
    comment by cmitsakis · 2023-07-19 · in Tachyons – A CSS Toolkit
  4. …and reuse it many times. More thoughtful reply to similar question from Adam Morse of tachyons: https://github.com/tachyons-css/tachyons/issues/12#issuecomm...
  5. …is red and has a border") I refer to the Tachyons style sheet as essentially a menu of options: https://github.com/tachyons-css/tachyons/blob/master/css/tac... In the rare case something is missing I do an inline style or add something to…
    comment by pdfernhout · 2020-07-18 · in Things I wish I’d known about CSS
  6. Hi There, have you tried Tachyons? https://github.com/tachyons-css/tachyons Its similar, but has been around since 2015.
    comment by blairanderson · 2018-09-27 · in Tailwind: A Utility-First CSS Framework
  7. The author discusses it a bit here: https://github.com/tachyons-css/tachyons/issues/12 The key points from there, regarding your question specifically: 1) inline styles can't use media queries, while there are tachyon classes for different…
    comment by losvedir · 2017-08-04 · in Languages Which Almost Became CSS