Candour

This is a pre-release

⚡️ Fluid design framework for React.

Core ideas

Fluidity

Every element is in harmony with the viewport width - every padding, font size and margin. Bigger viewport means bigger fonts and sizes. This is achieved by having using a fluid utility that depends on the viewport width.

Harmonic rhythm between elements

There is a grid-like relationship between sizes of the elements which is achieved by having a defined step size for everything.

Composable

It is built on a composable container structure - everything is themable & easily extendable.

Getting started

Install

To install the framework:

yarn add candour
# or 
npm install candour —save

Setup custom theme

For the theming to work, you need to set up a CandourProvider. Here’s an example for Create React App:

import React from 'react'
import { render } from 'react-dom'
import { CandourProvider } from 'candour'
 
const candourTheme = {
  heading: {
    2: {
      padding: 3,
    },
  },
}
 
render(
  <CandourProvider value={candourTheme}>
    <Heading level={2}>
      This is your heading
    </Heading>
  </CandourProvider>,
  document.getElementById('root')
)

Primitives

Container

Container is a primitive component on which every other component builds upon. You can also use it in places where you’d otherwise use div or a span HTML tag.

import { Container } from 'candour'
 
render(
  <Container backgroundColor='tomato'>
  </Container>
)

Container accepts all CSS properties as camelCased props which then are merged into the style property. Here are all the available keys: [CSS properties]

All the properties that a related to sizes can be specified in steps:

import { Container } from 'candour'
 
render(
  <Container padding={2}>
    I am a container
  </Container>
)
 
// equivalent to:
render(
  <Container padding={step(2)}>
    I am a container
  </Container>
)

It is advisable from the rhythmical design perspective to always use sizes that are based on steps.

Heading

Heading is a special component that builds on a Container (inherits all the CSS properties) but also is defined in a theme (at theme.heading).

It has special level prop that defines which HTML component and style to use.

import { Heading } from 'candour'
 
render(
 <Heading level={2}>
   I am a h2 heading
 </Heading>
)

Theming

candourTheme.js

export default {
  heading: {
    2: {
      // this will make the padding of `<Heading level={2} />` equal to `step(3)`.
      padding: 3,
    },
  },
}