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Flat UI vs Topcoat: What are the differences?

What is Flat UI? 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.

What is Topcoat? CSS for clean and fast web apps. TopCoat is made up of base controls, platform specific styles, themes and a build script to stitch them all together.

Flat UI and Topcoat can be primarily classified 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, Topcoat provides the following key features:

  • Components Galore
  • Themeable
  • BEM Architecture

Flat UI and Topcoat are both open source tools. It seems that Flat UI with 14.5K GitHub stars and 2.46K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Topcoat with 4.31K GitHub stars and 417 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Flat UI
Pros of Topcoat
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    Sass support
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    CSS class naming conventions are similar to Bootstrap
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    Good for mockups and minimal UI design
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    Basic Flat design
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    Open source
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    Backed by Adobe
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    Pretty
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    Themeable
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    BEM Architecture
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    Lightweight
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    Fast
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    Clean
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    PSD included

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Cons of Flat UI
Cons of Topcoat
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    Not for creative and modern UI design
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    What is Flat UI?

    Flat UI is a beautiful theme for Bootstrap. We have redesigned many of its components to look flat in every pixel.

    What is Topcoat?

    TopCoat is made up of base controls, platform specific styles, themes and a build script to stitch them all together.

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