# AmbientCSS

Pure CSS lighting system that derives element shadows and highlights from one light source.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/ambientcss/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-26
Updated: 2026-10-28
Listed since: 2026-10-26

## Record

### Links

- home: https://kikkupico.github.io/ambientcss/
- repository: https://github.com/kikkupico/ambientcss
- docs: https://kikkupico.github.io/ambientcss/

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Ramakrishnan Veeraragavan
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2026
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: css-framework
- hosting: not applicable
- language: css
- runtime: unknown
- runtimeMin: not applicable
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: unknown
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: npm

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 3
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-09-12

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 587
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: 233
- contributors: 2
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://kikkupico.github.io/ambientcss/ (read 2026-10-26)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/kikkupico/ambientcss (read 2026-10-26)
- urls: https://kikkupico.github.io/ambientcss/ (read 2026-10-26)
- firstRelease: https://registry.npmjs.org/@ambientcss/css (read 2026-10-26)
- maintainer: https://github.com/kikkupico/ambientcss/blob/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-26)
- maintainerType: https://api.github.com/users/kikkupico (read 2026-10-26)
- language: https://github.com/kikkupico/ambientcss/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-26)
- category: https://github.com/kikkupico/ambientcss/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-26)
- installMethod: https://github.com/kikkupico/ambientcss/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-26)
- installMethod: https://kikkupico.github.io/ambientcss/guide/getting-started (read 2026-10-26)
- license: https://github.com/kikkupico/ambientcss/blob/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-26)
- licenseModel: https://github.com/kikkupico/ambientcss (read 2026-10-26)
- currentMajor: https://registry.npmjs.org/@ambientcss/css (read 2026-10-26)
- latestReleaseDate: https://registry.npmjs.org/@ambientcss/css (read 2026-10-26)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/kikkupico/ambientcss (read 2026-10-26)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/kikkupico/ambientcss/contributors (read 2026-10-26)
- npmWeeklyDownloads: https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/range/2026-09-28:2026-10-04/@ambientcss/css (read 2026-10-28)

## Notes

AmbientCSS is a pure CSS lighting framework. The [README](https://github.com/kikkupico/ambientcss/blob/master/README.md) describes defining a light source on a parent element, after which shadows, highlights and surface gradients follow from it. It is set up with light-direction classes and CSS custom properties, and the package has zero dependencies. The documentation calls it a small design system in two packages: @ambientcss/css, with the lighting primitives and utility classes, and @ambientcss/components, a set of React controls built on them. This record is the CSS package.

## Worth knowing

The project has no GitHub release or tag, and its versions are published to npm only.

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Credit, in full: FindSoftware, CC BY 4.0