phil / ux-css

0.4.0-alpha 2026-11-12 02:38 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.5

Requires (Dev)

• phpunit/phpunit: ^13.4

MIT

• Philippe Gamache

• css
• accessibility
• design-system
• dark-mode
• asset-mapper
• design-tokens
• oklch

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-11-12 03:08 UTC

README

phil-ux, the CSS framework of PHIL: real, mostly classless CSS with --phil-* tokens, light and dark.

phil-ux dresses the HTML elements without a class first — the page, its typography, forms as Symfony renders them, buttons, tables, dialogs, disclosures, navigation, gauges and popovers — and adds classes that say what an element is or has, in camelCase: isSplit, isDanger, hasIcon. It is plain CSS in cascade layers, with no build step and no Tailwind: a site's own styles, written outside any layer, win over it without !important.

Every value is a token. The scales are named in t-shirt sizes and follow global multipliers. The colours come from an OKLCH palette numbered by lightness, and components read colour roles — a fill, a border and the colour on that fill, each quiet or loud —, never the palette. One theme holds light and dark in the same declarations; the page follows the system unless data-theme chooses. The package also ships the PHP contrast rule the theme is tested against, which a site runs on its own overrides.

The recipes of the PHIL UX kit for the Symfony UX Toolkit take their look from this stylesheet.

Status

Part	What it is	Status
Tokens: dimensions	Space, text, radius, shadow in t-shirt sizes, fonts, motion, global multipliers	Implemented and tested
Tokens: palette	Seven OKLCH hues numbered by lightness, in sRGB	Implemented and tested
Tokens: colour roles	Surface, text, link, focus; the fill/border/on × quiet/loud grid of six roles; light and dark	Implemented and tested
Classless base	Typography, page elements, focus ring, forms and Symfony's form markup, buttons, tables, dialogs, disclosures, navigation, gauges, popovers, reduced motion	Implemented and tested
Layout	isStack, isCluster, isGrid, isCenter, isNarrow, isSplit, isFullHeight, isCover, isBleed, hasEntrance	Implemented
Display components	isEyebrow, isHeadline, isReveal (the clip reveal), isLogo, isProse, isReaction, isReactionPicker	Implemented
Tones and sizes	isPrimary, isNeutral, isDanger, isSuccess, isWarning, isInfo, isSmall, isLarge	Implemented and tested
Button looks	isButton, isSecondary, isGhost, isOutline, isLoading, hasIcon, isIconOnly, isButtonGroup	Implemented and tested
Interface components	isBadge, isAlert, isCard, isEmptyState, isTabs, isSheet, isSwitch, isTooltip, isDropdown, isAccordion, isBreadcrumb, isPagination, isStepper, isCarousel, isSpinner, isSkeleton, isAvatar, isSeparator, isActivityCalendar, isQrCode, isField, isItem, isToggle, isRadioGroup, isScrollArea, isAspectRatio, isCollapsible, isKbdGroup, isChart, isLoginForm, isSignupForm	Implemented and tested
Highlighted code, print fallback	The hl-* classes in colour roles; .ujo-print-fallback shown only on paper	Implemented and tested
Symfony Flex recipe	In the recipes repository of PHIL: maps dist/ in AssetMapper	Implemented
Utilities	isVisuallyHidden, isSkipLink, isMuted, isGrow	Implemented
dist/phil-ux.css	The single-file build, its freshness tested	Implemented and tested
ContrastRule, TokenSheet, Oklch	The contrast rule, checked on the package's tokens and on a site's overrides	Implemented and tested

Documentation

Document	What it covers
Installation	AssetMapper, npm, a copied file; the cascade layers.
Tokens	The scales, the palette, the colour roles, and the tokens as DTCG JSON for design tools.
Themes	Light and dark, data-theme, a site's overrides.
Elements	What the classless base dresses, forms and Symfony's markup included.
Layout	The layout classes.
Components	Tones and sizes, buttons, every component, the utilities.
The contrast rule	The rule, and how a site checks its overrides with it.
Extension points	What a site changes, and how.
Testing	How the package is tested.
Reference	Every file and type of the package.

Quick start

<html lang="en" data-theme="dark">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/styles/phil-ux.css">

<div class="isSplit isFullHeight">
    <div class="isCover">
        <header>…</header>
        <main class="isCoverBody">
            <hgroup>
                <p class="isEyebrow">Coming soon</p>
                <h1 class="isHeadline">Studio</h1>
            </hgroup>
        </main>
    </div>
    <figure class="isBleed hasEntrance"><img src="/images/main.png" alt=""></figure>
</div>

Requirements

A browser of 2024 or later, for cascade layers, light-dark(), oklch() and :user-invalid; the animation of details and of the top layer come with the browsers that have them, and the rest works without. PHP 8.5 or later for the contrast rule, with no extension.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome on the PHIL monorepo: read the contribution guide and the code of conduct. Report a vulnerability privately, as the security policy explains, never in a public issue.

License

MIT, © Philippe Gamache, doing business as Le Gnome Archiviste; a Parler Haut Interagir Librement project. See LICENSE.