While LESS focusses on sticking to the CSS-style syntax, not all CSS alternatives do. In fact, if it is the CSS syntax that you dislike, LESS, for all the features it adds, isn’t of much help.

Inspired by CSS Zen Garden and driven by a desire to showcase what can be done with a mere 1KB of CSS, Jacob Rask, a web developer at Opera Software, created CSS1K about six months ago. Since then ...