# Introduction
Skeleton integrates with Tailwind to provide an opinionated solution for generating adaptive design systems. Including easy to use components for your favorite web frameworks.

## Our Philosophy

Skeleton provides a uniform design language and structured framework for controlling the look and feel of your product and user experience. It serves as an opinionated design system that aims to greatly reduce the amount of time spent managing design elements and patterns, allowing you to more quickly build and manage your frontend interfaces at scale.

{

<div className="grid grid-cols-1 md:grid-cols-2 gap-4">
	<div className="card preset-outlined-surface-200-800 bg-surface-50-950 p-10 space-y-4">
		<h3 className="h3">Framework Agnostic</h3>
		<p className="text-surface-700-300">
			Skeleton's core features are framework agnostic, only requiring the use of{' '}
			<a className="anchor" href="https://tailwindcss.com/" target="_blank" rel="external">
				Tailwind CSS
			</a>
			. This provides full access to all design system features, while enabling you to standardize the design process for your framework of
			choice.
		</p>
	</div>
	<div className="card preset-outlined-surface-200-800 bg-surface-50-950 p-10 space-y-4">
		<h3 className="h3">Native-First</h3>
		<p className="text-surface-700-300">
			We aim to embrace the interface of the web, not replace it. This is why Skeleton defaults to semantic HTML elements and native browser
			APIs. Beyond ease of use, we feel this offers a huge advantages to accessibility.
		</p>
	</div>
	<div className="card preset-outlined-surface-200-800 bg-surface-50-950 p-10 space-y-4">
		<h3 className="h3">Simple Standards</h3>
		<p className="text-surface-700-300">
			We aim to standardize the design process, providing common conventions that are easy to learn and retain, whether you work alone or in
			a team environment. Covering common fixtures such as themes, colors, typography, spacing, and more.
		</p>
	</div>
	<div className="card preset-outlined-surface-200-800 bg-surface-50-950 p-10 space-y-4">
		<h3 className="h3">Utility-First</h3>
		<p className="text-surface-700-300">
			Skeleton embraces the{' '}
			<a className="anchor" href="https://tailwindcss.com/docs/utility-first" target="_blank" rel="external">
				utility-first
			</a>{' '}
			methodology for styling, supporting all features provided by{' '}
			<a className="anchor" href="https://tailwindcss.com/" target="_blank" rel="external">
				Tailwind
			</a>
			, while extending it's capabilities in meaningful ways. Providing full support for the encapsulated components of the modern web.
		</p>
	</div>
	<div className="card preset-outlined-surface-200-800 bg-surface-50-950 p-10 space-y-4">
		<h3 className="h3">Opt-In by Default</h3>
		<p className="text-surface-700-300">
			Most features in Skeleton are modular and opt-in by default. Enabling interface features like buttons and typography via dedicated
			utility classes. This allows for a simple escape hatch when you need to draw outside the lines and generate custom interfaces.
		</p>
	</div>
	<div className="card preset-outlined-surface-200-800 bg-surface-50-950 p-10 space-y-4">
		<h3 className="h3">Adaptive</h3>
		<p className="text-surface-700-300">
			Skeleton is intended to adapt to the design and aesthetic of your project, while still providing reasonable defaults. Providing a
			powerful{' '}
			<a className="anchor" href="https://themes.skeleton.dev/" target="_blank" rel="external">
				theme generator
			</a>{' '}
			for custom themes, while also supplying a curated set of themes for those less design savvy.
		</p>
	</div>
</div>
}

## Additional Benefits

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<div className="grid grid-cols-1 md:grid-cols-2 gap-4">

    <div className="col-span-1 md:col-span-2 card preset-outlined-surface-200-800 bg-surface-50-950 p-10 space-y-4">
    	<h3 className="h3">Functional Components</h3>
    	
    	<p className="text-surface-700-300">
    		Skeleton provides an optional suite of functional components built atop the foundation of <a href="https://zagjs.com/" target="_blank" class="anchor">Zag.js</a>. These components automatically adapt to the Skeleton design system out of the box. We currently support React and Svelte, with plans for other frameworks in the future.
    	</p>
    </div>
    <div className="card preset-outlined-surface-200-800 bg-surface-50-950 p-10 space-y-4">
    	<h3 className="h3">Open Source</h3>
    	
    	<p className="text-surface-700-300">
    		Skeleton is provided as <a href="https://github.com/skeletonlabs/skeleton" target="_blank" class="anchor">free and open-source software (FOSS)</a> under the <a href="https://github.com/skeletonlabs/skeleton?tab=MIT-1-ov-file#readme" target="_blank" class="anchor">MIT License</a>.
    	</p>
    </div>
    <div className="card preset-outlined-surface-200-800 bg-surface-50-950 p-10 space-y-4">
    	<h3 className="h3">The Community</h3>
    	
    	<p className="text-surface-700-300">
    		A huge community of users and contributors across <a href="https://github.com/skeletonlabs/skeleton" target="_blank" class="anchor">GitHub</a>, <a href="https://discord.gg/EXqV7W8MtY" target="_blank" class="anchor">Discord</a>, and <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/skeleton.dev" target="_blank" class="anchor">Bluesky</a>.
    	</p>
    </div>
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    	<h3 className="h3">Frequent Updates</h3>
    	
    	<p className="text-surface-700-300">
    		Skeleton has maintained a frequent release cadence over for years. Just take a look at our <a href="https://github.com/skeletonlabs/skeleton/blob/main/packages/skeleton/CHANGELOG.md" target="_blank" class="anchor">changelog</a>.
    	</p>
    </div>
    <div className="card preset-outlined-surface-200-800 bg-surface-50-950 p-10 space-y-4">
    	<h3 className="h3">Figma UI Kit</h3>
    	
    	<p className="text-surface-700-300">
    		Skeleton provides access to a fully featured <a href="/figma" class="anchor">Figma UI Kit</a> to assist designers in drafting a visual concept of upcoming projects.
    	</p>
    </div>

</div>
}

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## Get Started

### Using Skeleton

Ready to get started? Check out our comprehensive [installation guides](/docs/get-started/installation) and begin [learning the fundamentals](/docs/get-started/fundamentals).

### Contributing

Please refer to our dedicated [Contribution Guidelines](/docs/resources/contribute) if you wish to contribute directly.