css/docs/about.md

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title: About
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Learn more about this styleguide, particularly how it's built and who maintains it.

### What and why

Primer is GitHub's internal CSS framework. It includes basic global styling for typography, small components like buttons and tabs, and our general guidelines for writing HTML and CSS. It's been used internally at GitHub for years now.

Open-sourcing Primer means sharing and learning with the community. There's a lot we can improve upon in Primer, and help is always appreciated. While we don't currently plan on building this out as a competitor to other front-end frameworks, we will ocassionally add, remove, or modify things.

### Future updates

See the [roadmap](/roadmap) for a rough outline on what's slated for future versions of Primer.

### Dependencies

- Our styles are built with SCSS.
- Bower is used to link GitHub assets, namely our [Octicons](http://octicons.github.com) icon font and Markdown styles.
- Autoprefixer is used to generate vendor-prefixed declarations and is handled via our Gruntfile.
- A custom plugin for snippet and example combos, `example.rb`, was created as a fork of Jekyll's built-in `highlight` plugin.

### Who

Currently maintained by [@mdo](https://twitter.com/mdo), [@jonrohan](https://twitter.com/jonrohan), and the GitHub CSS team.
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			`title: About`
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			`Learn more about this styleguide, particularly how it's built and who maintains it.`

			`### What and why`

copy updates 2015-03-23 19:47:44 +03:00			`Primer is GitHub's internal CSS framework. It includes basic global styling for typography, small components like buttons and tabs, and our general guidelines for writing HTML and CSS. It's been used internally at GitHub for years now.`

			`Open-sourcing Primer means sharing and learning with the community. There's a lot we can improve upon in Primer, and help is always appreciated. While we don't currently plan on building this out as a competitor to other front-end frameworks, we will ocassionally add, remove, or modify things.`
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			`### Future updates`

			`See the [roadmap](/roadmap) for a rough outline on what's slated for future versions of Primer.`

			`### Dependencies`

			`- Our styles are built with SCSS.`
			`- Bower is used to link GitHub assets, namely our [Octicons](http://octicons.github.com) icon font and Markdown styles.`
			`- Autoprefixer is used to generate vendor-prefixed declarations and is handled via our Gruntfile.`
			- A custom plugin for snippet and example combos, `example.rb`, was created as a fork of Jekyll's built-in `highlight` plugin.

			`### Who`

			`Currently maintained by [@mdo](https://twitter.com/mdo), [@jonrohan](https://twitter.com/jonrohan), and the GitHub CSS team.`