# elementalui/elemental

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4,286 stars · 214 forks · JavaScript · MIT

## Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/elementalui/elemental
- Homepage: elemental-ui.com
- awesome-repositories: https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/elementalui-elemental.md

## Description

Elemental is a component-based design system and React UI framework. It provides a collection of pre-styled interface components and CSS patterns used to build consistent user interfaces and layout designs for web applications.

The library functions as a customizable CSS UI library, allowing for the implementation of custom design systems by mapping design tokens and stylesheets to reusable elements. It integrates vector icon rendering to embed scalable graphic glyphs directly within interface components.

The framework supports the composition of complex layouts using pre-made elements such as buttons and modals to facilitate interface prototyping. It maintains visual consistency through theme-driven style inheritance and token-based configuration.

## Tags

### User Interface & Experience

- [React UI Component Libraries](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/user-interface-experience/react-ui-component-libraries.md) — Ships a collection of pre-styled interface components and CSS patterns specifically for building user interfaces with React.
- [User Interface Frameworks](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/user-interface-experience/user-interface-frameworks.md) — Provides a comprehensive framework for building interactive and accessible web interfaces using pre-styled components. ([source](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/elementalui/elemental@master/README.md))
- [Component-Based Layouts](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/user-interface-experience/component-based-layouts.md) — Structures complex web pages using a nested hierarchy of independent functional panels.
- [Design System](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/user-interface-experience/component-libraries/design-system.md) — Provides a collection of pre-built interface elements designed to maintain consistent visual styles.
- [CSS-Driven Style Customization](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/user-interface-experience/customizable-ui-components/css-driven-style-customization.md) — Provides a customizable CSS UI library that maps design tokens to reusable elements for specific design requirements.
- [CSS Styling](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/user-interface-experience/styling-theming-systems/content-styling/styling-architectures/styling-systems/class-based-styling/css-styling.md) — Provides a styling system that maps design tokens to components via standard CSS classes.
- [Component Style Customizations](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/user-interface-experience/component-style-customizations.md) — Allows adjustments to the colors and typography of specific components via custom stylesheets. ([source](http://elemental-ui.com/home))
- [Theme Inheritance Systems](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/user-interface-experience/theme-inheritance-systems.md) — Enables visual themes to extend base configurations through a hierarchical inheritance system.
- [Rapid Interface Prototyping](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/user-interface-experience/ui-architecture/design-utilities/design-authoring-software/design-tools/rapid-interface-prototyping.md) — Accelerates the creation of functional application shells using pre-made layout components and modals.
- [Design Consistency](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/user-interface-experience/ui-architecture/design-utilities/design-systems/design-system-documentation-strategy/design-consistency.md) — Provides assets and patterns that facilitate a unified visual language across all application pages.
- [Vector Graphics Rendering](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/user-interface-experience/vector-graphics-rendering.md) — Embeds scalable vector graphics directly into the DOM for high-fidelity visual output.
- [Vector Icons](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/user-interface-experience/vector-icons.md) — Integrates scalable graphical icon sets as inline elements for clear visual cues.
- [Visual Themes](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/user-interface-experience/visual-theme-configurations/visual-themes.md) — Establishes customizable visual identities applied across the entire user interface.

### Software Engineering & Architecture

- [UI Component Development](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/software-engineering-architecture/component-based-development/ui-component-development.md) — Facilitates the development of web interfaces by composing discrete, state-managing UI components. ([source](http://elemental-ui.com/))
- [Design System Implementations](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/software-engineering-architecture/design-system-implementations.md) — Implements a full design system by mapping tokens and stylesheets to reusable React elements.
- [Design Token Architectures](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/software-engineering-architecture/design-token-architectures.md) — Centralizes visual properties as a single source of truth using a design token architecture.
- [View Component Compositions](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/software-engineering-architecture/modular-program-composition/function-composition/ui-component-compositions/view-component-compositions.md) — Implements a modular UI structure by nesting atomic views and layout containers.
- [View Component Architectures](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/software-engineering-architecture/software-architecture/architectural-patterns/layering-presentation/application-layer-architectures/state-management-architectures/scope-and-hierarchy-management/closure-based-state-encapsulations/component-based-encapsulations/view-component-architectures.md) — Organizes the user interface into independent, reusable units using a React-based view architecture.

### Part of an Awesome List

- [React](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/awesome-lists/more/react.md) — Listed in the “React” section of the Awesome Ui Component Library awesome list.