# Bourbon

Sass mixin and function library with no output of its own, installed as a RubyGems gem.


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

## Record

### Links

- home: https://www.bourbon.io/
- repository: https://github.com/thoughtbot/bourbon
- docs: https://www.bourbon.io/docs/latest/
- x: https://twitter.com/bourbonsass/
- forum: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/bourbon

### Identity

- status: discontinued
- maintainer: thoughtbot, inc.
- maintainerType: unknown
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2011
- 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: rubygems

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 7
- latestReleaseDate: 2023-01-23

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 8993
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: 194305
- contributors: 109
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 21510
- dependentPackages: 112

### Sources

- status: https://www.bourbon.io/ (read 2026-10-26)
- status: https://github.com/thoughtbot/bourbon/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-26)
- urls: https://www.bourbon.io/ (read 2026-10-26)
- urls: https://github.com/thoughtbot/bourbon (read 2026-10-26)
- urls: https://www.bourbon.io/docs/latest/ (read 2026-10-26)
- firstRelease: https://rubygems.org/api/v1/versions/bourbon.json (read 2026-10-26)
- maintainer: https://github.com/thoughtbot/bourbon/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-26)
- language: https://www.bourbon.io/ (read 2026-10-26)
- category: https://www.bourbon.io/ (read 2026-10-26)
- installMethod: https://github.com/thoughtbot/bourbon/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-26)
- installMethod: https://github.com/thoughtbot/bourbon/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-26)
- license: https://github.com/thoughtbot/bourbon/blob/main/LICENSE.md (read 2026-10-26)
- licenseModel: https://github.com/thoughtbot/bourbon (read 2026-10-26)
- currentMajor: https://github.com/thoughtbot/bourbon/releases/tag/v7.3.0 (read 2026-10-26)
- latestReleaseDate: https://github.com/thoughtbot/bourbon/releases/tag/v7.3.0 (read 2026-10-26)
- githubStargazers: https://github.com/thoughtbot/bourbon (read 2026-10-26)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/thoughtbot/bourbon/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-10-26)
- npmWeeklyDownloads: https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/range/2026-09-28:2026-10-04/bourbon (read 2026-10-28)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/rubygems.org/packages/bourbon (read 2026-10-26)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/rubygems.org/packages/bourbon (read 2026-10-26)

## Notes

Bourbon is a Sass library of mixins and functions, installed from RubyGems as the bourbon gem or from npm, and used from Sass stylesheets. Using it needs a Sass compiler. Its homepage describes it as a lightweight Sass tool set. The repository is written in Ruby because it ships the gem's command-line wrapper, and the library's own files are Sass.

## Worth knowing

The project is discontinued. The homepage says it is no longer maintained, and the README records its deprecation as of September 2024 and links a thoughtbot blog post on replacing its helpers with native CSS. The repository is archived on GitHub, and no successor project is named.

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