magick.css — Minimalist CSS for Wizards. It was shared on Show HN in 2024 and received 305 upvotes on Hacker News. magick.css is magically playful, yet simple styling. all in one file. Albus Greybeard, On the Virtues of Mystical Marginalia , 1132 Fundamentals magick.css is a minimalistic, (mostly) classless CSS framework that is designed to be easy to use and easy to understand. It is contained in a single file, and every choice is commented. It is inspired by LaTeX , old school TTRPG rulebooks, CSS frameworks like concrete.css and Tufte CSS and the "usability as design" ethic of brutalism. How to use magick.css magick.css works best with normalize.css , using it is strongly recommended! The easiest way to check out magick.css for your own project is to add it from a CDN. There are some cool features that you can use, though; just scroll down to discover them! This page is a good example of how to do this. You will find it used from time to time on this page. Should you want to elaborate on a point, or provide additional context, you can use magick.css's sidenotes. You can find out more about this in the Extras section below. Typography Here is a showcase of the typography that magick.css offers: Heading 1: A title bold and grand, the story's gate. Underlined secrets, subtly hinted, Small, yet mighty, our words are minted. Headings below

are not styled by magick.css; they are usually not needed for hierarchical structuring, but instead for very specific use cases. [It is] notable that the Feynman lectures [...] write about all of physics in 1800 pages, using only 2 levels of hierarchical headings: chapters and A-level heads in the text. Edward Tufte, forum post, ‘Book design: advice and examples’ thread Structured Content Lists Lists are kept simple, as to not distract from the content: This is... Text Inputs Free standing text inputs are not opinionated in regards to their size or placement, as their use can vary greatly. Here are some examples: Checkboxes & Radio Buttons Labels for checkboxes and radio buttons are expected after the input element. In magick.css, forms are styled to stand out, grabbing the user's attention.