When comparing Hologram vs SC5, the Slant community recommends SC5 for most people. In the question“What are the best tools for building and generating css living styleguides?” SC5 is ranked 1st while Hologram is ranked 4th. The most important reason people chose SC5 is:
The [designer tool](https://github.com/SC5/sc5-styleguide#designer-tool) allows you to edit Sass, Less and PostCSS in the browser, which can be saved to the main file.
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Pros
Pro Very customizable
Hologram has a variety of plugins and extensions to choose from, and the ability to create custom renderers.
Pro Supports variety of file types
Hologram supports Markdown and JavaScript, as well as popular preprocessors (Less, Sass, and Stylus).
Pro Edit on the fly
The designer tool allows you to edit Sass, Less and PostCSS in the browser, which can be saved to the main file.
Pro Powerful search feature
There is a built-in search feature that allow you to quickly find components and markup examples.
Pro Extends KSS
SC5 is built on, and extends the functionality of KSS. It is compatible with existing KSS styleguides.
Pro Easy to customize
The default theme is easy to override using CSS or Sass.
Pro Wide range of support
It supports SASS, LESS, PostCSS styles as well as pure CSS style sheets.
Cons
Con Requires Ruby
Con Poor error reporting
Currently Hologram has limited error reporting, sometime giving unhelpful messages or failing silently.
Con Renders slow for big projects
The generated website can render slow for larger projects.