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Pico styles tags. Web Awesome ships a design system of custom elements. Tailwind is utilities plus a compiler. html.style is CSS 2026 plus additive hs-*, two tags, yearly snapshot.
| html.style | Pico | Open Props | Web Awesome | Tailwind | daisyUI | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary install | Link CSS + optional module | Link CSS | @import / CDN | Theme CSS + autoloader | Compiler | Tailwind plugin |
| Styles tags | Yes | Yes | Tokens only | Optional native.css | No | Semantic classes |
| Web components | Additive hs-* | No | No | Full catalog | No | No |
| Theme without rebuild | Custom properties | --pico-* | Override props | --wa-* + themes | @theme + build | data-theme |
| Polyfills | None | Broad support | Broad support | Modern browsers | Build output | Build output |
| Versioning | Calendar snapshot | Semver | Semver | Semver | Semver | Semver |
| Agent docs | CEM + llms.txt | — | — | Skills + llms.txt | — | Skills |
What we are not
- Not classless-only — atoms exist when a class earns its keep.
- Not a 50-component design system. Fifteen elements, each a step up from HTML.
- Not Tailwind. If you want utilities as the language, use Tailwind.
- Not a look you cannot leave. Tokens and layers are the public API.