picocss/pico
Minimal CSS Framework for semantic HTML
16.8k stars · 519 forks · CSS · archived
Quick update: star history is from the full report of Nov 1, 2026.
Avoid
Archived on GitHub.
Why
- The repository is archived on GitHub, so it no longer accepts changes. (source 1)
What would change this
- The owner unarchives the repository.
- Partly checked: people (Only 2 human commits were found, too few to judge who maintains the project.)
Maintenance
CompleteArchived
- Human commits, 30 days
- 0
- Human commits, 90 days
- 2
- Human commits, 365 days
- 2
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 0%
- Last commit
- Oct 4, 2026 (1 month ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 4, 2026 (1 month ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 1
- Last release
- Mar 15, 2025 (1 year ago)
- Median PR merge time
- 3 days
Too few recent issues to measure responsiveness.
- The repository is archived, so no new work is expected.
- Only 1 recent issues can be checked for a response, too few to measure response time.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Partial- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 2 since Nov 13, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 1
- Contributors
- 61
Top committers
- lucaslarroche: 100% of commits
- Only 2 human commits were found, too few to judge who maintains the project.
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence medium
Bursts
- Sep 18, 2021 to Sep 20, 2021: about 37 more stars than usual, peak 21 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Oct 14, 2021 to Oct 15, 2021: about 60 more stars than usual, peak 51 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Dec 14, 2021 to Jan 13, 2022: about 2.8k more stars than usual, peak 572 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Dec 21, 2022 to Dec 22, 2022: about 53 more stars than usual, peak 48 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Jan 16, 2023 to Jan 31, 2023: about 1.4k more stars than usual, peak 517 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Oct 9, 2023 to Oct 9, 2023: about 54 more stars than usual, peak 62 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Feb 8, 2024 to Feb 9, 2024: about 67 more stars than usual, peak 65 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Mar 24, 2024 to Mar 27, 2024: about 96 more stars than usual, peak 53 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Sep 7, 2025 to Sep 10, 2025: about 303 more stars than usual, peak 187 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- The star history looks organic.
- Star history from the full report of Nov 1, 2026; this update did not re-read it.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
- High: GitHub marks this repository as archived, so it is read-only and receives no new changes. Details
- Info: The OpenSSF Scorecard for this project is 3.6 out of 10 (deps.dev). Details
License
- Now
- MIT (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- MIT (OSI-approved)
Packages
- @picocss/pico (NPM): latest 2.1.1, published Mar 15, 2025
Advisories for the latest version: none listed
Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 3.6 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
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- Nov 13, 2026: Avoid
- Nov 12, 2026: Avoid
- Nov 11, 2026: Avoid
- Nov 10, 2026: Avoid
- Nov 9, 2026: Avoid
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- Nov 7, 2026: Avoid
- Nov 6, 2026: Avoid
- Nov 5, 2026: Avoid
- Nov 4, 2026: Avoid