A minimalist CSS generator
violetear is a minimalist CSS generator in Python. You write Python code and obtain a CSS definition, that you can either render to a file and serve statically, or inject dynamically into your HTML, or use inline styles directly in your markup.
It is a pure Python package with zero dependencies. Install with:
pip install violetearFor fun, mostly... but also, because CSS is boring and repetitive. But using a full-featured programming language allows me to unlock orders of magnitude of productivity generating styles programatically.
Using violetear you can compose simpler styles into more complex ones, reusing common rules to reduce repetition to a minimum. You can manipulate magnitudes, such as colors, making it much easier to generate a specific color pallete, for instance. Since you have a full-featured programming language, you can leverage variables and methods to, for example, generate dynamic themes on-the-fly based on user-defined colors.
Finally, with violetear you can generate only the subset if styles you end up using in any given template from a single Pyhon source. This means you can happily define all your styles globally and then deliver the minimum CSS subset necessary for each view.