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When comparing Topcoat vs Picnic CSS, the Slant community recommends Picnic CSS for most people. In the question“What are the best minimal CSS frameworks?” Picnic CSS is ranked 3rd while Topcoat is ranked 19th. The most important reason people chose Picnic CSS is:
Easy to extend.
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Pros
Pro Focused on performance
Every Topcoat component is built with performance in mind. Most of the stylesheets are small and do not take too long to load.
Pro Written in SCSS
Easy to extend.
Pro Style native HTML elements
You don't need to write presentation classes mixed with your HTML, It styles native HTML elements.
Pro Lightweight
Under 10kb of compressed css.
Cons
Con Not so impressive design
But it is themeable.
Con Some issues with typography
For some components the text size is quite small, while for others it's too light over a light background, making the text harder to read.
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