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Blueprint is a CSS framework designed to reduce development time and ensure cross-browser compatibility when working with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). It also serves as a foundation for many tools designed to make CSS development easier and more accessible to beginners.

• History

• Purpose

• Features

• See also

• References

• External links

Blueprint was first created by Olav Bjørkøy and released on August 3, 2007.cite-ref-2[2] By August 11, Blueprint included work based on ideas from Jeff Croft, Nathan Borror, Christian Metts, and Eric A. Meyer.cite-ref-v0point4-3-0[3] Version 0.8 was released on November 11, and included various bugfixes as well as a new "tabs" plugin.cite-ref-v0point8-4-0[4]

One of the goals stated by the core team is to facilitate the development of new tools for working with CSS.cite-ref-tools-5-0[5] A variety of CSS generators, visual editors, themes, and frameworks are based on Blueprint, many of which can be found on the Blueprint Wiki.cite-ref-6[6]

Blueprint is released under a modified version of the MIT License, making it free software. It can be either used as is, or further adapted for use via a compression tool that is written in Ruby.

Blueprint's README file lists the following features as being provided out-of-the-box:

• A typographic baseline

• A stylesheet for printing

• An easily customizable grid

• Sensible default typography

• Perfected browser CSS reset

• Powerful scripts for customizationcite-ref-7[7]

• Bloat Minimized as much as possible

• CSS box model

cite-note-11. "joshuaclayton/blueprint-css". GitHub. Retrieved 23 April 2020. This repository has been archived by the owner. It is now read-only.

cite-note-22. ↑ Launch: Blueprint, a CSS framework. bjorkoy.com (2007-8-3).

cite-note-v0point4-33. ↑ CSS Frameworks for Front-end Developers. byteswire.com. Retrieved on 2014-09-01.

cite-note-v0point8-44. ↑ Blueprint version 0.8. (Archived) Christianmontoya.com. Retrieved on 2012-09-11.

cite-note-tools-55. ↑ Semantify, and CSS tools based on Blueprint Archived January 16, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. Christianmontoya.com. Retrieved on 2012-09-11.

cite-note-66. ↑ Mods, Forks and Alternatives Archived 2010-03-30 at the Wayback Machine. Wiki.github.com (2012-03-31). Retrieved on 2012-09-11.

cite-note-77. ↑ Impact of video size on website load times Video Compressor. Retrieved on 2023-03-07.

• Blueprint Webpage

• Web Development