🆚 Spectre.css vs. Tachyons

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Spectre.css is slightly more popular than Tachyons.
🌎 Spectre.css is more popular in the United States, Germany, and France.
🌎 Tachyons is more popular in Brazil, the United Kingdom, and Argentina.

Spectre.css

Tachyons

Type

User interface framework

About

Spectre.css is a lightweight, responsive CSS framework designed for faster and extensible development.

It provides basic styles for typography, utility classes for spacing and alignment, a flexbox-based 12-column grid system, pure CSS components like menus, modals and tooltips, and supports customization via Sass.

Tachyons is a lightweight, functional CSS framework that enables the creation of fast, responsive, and accessible web interfaces without writing custom CSS.

It provides a wide range of single-purpose utility classes, a mobile-first grid system, accessible color combinations, and a shallow cascade that allows scalable and maintainable styling.

Headquarters

Shanghai, China

Boise, Idaho, United States

Website

picturepan2.github.io/spectre/

tachyons.io #271,682

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Spectre.css UI framework is 1.5 times more popular than Tachyons.

Total websites

Market share

UI Frameworks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Spectre.css is more popular in the United States, Germany, and France, while Tachyons is more popular in Brazil, the United Kingdom, and Argentina.

United States

Brazil

Germany

United Kingdom

France

India

Spain

Poland

Italy

Netherlands

Awards

⭐ 4th most popular in Armenia in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Portugal in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Bulgaria in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Slovakia in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 8th most popular in Spain in the UI Frameworks category.

⭐ 5th most popular in Chile in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Colombia in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Peru in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Ecuador in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Brazil in the UI Frameworks category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Spectre.css is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, business, and education and reference, while Tachyons is more commonly used on marketing and merchandising, fashion and beauty, and Internet services sites.

Online Shopping

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Fashion/Beauty

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Health

Blogs/Wiki

Travel

Entertainment