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Flat UI vs Skeleton: What are the differences?
Developers describe Flat UI as "Free Bootstrap Framework and Theme". Flat UI is a beautiful theme for Bootstrap. We have redesigned many of its components to look flat in every pixel. On the other hand, Skeleton is detailed as "A Beautiful Boilerplate for Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Development". Skeleton is a small collection of CSS files that can help you rapidly develop sites that look beautiful at any size, be it a 17" laptop screen or an iPhone.
Flat UI and Skeleton can be categorized as "Front-End Frameworks" tools.
Some of the features offered by Flat UI are:
- Bootstrap-based
- Retina Ready Images and Icons
- Custom form components
On the other hand, Skeleton provides the following key features:
- Responsive Grid Down To Mobile
- Fast to Start
- Style Agnostic
Flat UI and Skeleton are both open source tools. Skeleton with 16.8K GitHub stars and 2.93K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Flat UI with 14.5K GitHub stars and 2.46K GitHub forks.
Ledger Note, Spirit Pixels™, and emotion.me are some of the popular companies that use Skeleton, whereas Flat UI is used by Apexure, Leonis Holding, and SkyQuest. Skeleton has a broader approval, being mentioned in 8 company stacks & 3 developers stacks; compared to Flat UI, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.
Pros of Flat UI
- Sass support1
- CSS class naming conventions are similar to Bootstrap1
- Good for mockups and minimal UI design1
- Basic Flat design1
Pros of Skeleton
- Minimalist9
- Responsive6
- Simple4
- Fantastically straight forward2
- Lightweight, clean syntax1
- More than an Alternative1
- Lightweight1
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Cons of Flat UI
- Not for creative and modern UI design1
Cons of Skeleton
- Have to make design decisions0
