Utility-first CSS framework for building custom designs directly in your markup, installed 110M+ times per week.

Headless UI by Adam Wathan
Unstyled, fully accessible UI components designed to pair with Tailwind CSS.
Visit Headless UI ↗About Headless UI
Unstyled, fully accessible UI components designed to pair with Tailwind CSS. Headless UI is a open source makers product built by indie maker Adam Wathan, launched in 2020.
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2020
- Category
- Open Source Makers
- Website
- headlessui.com
More products by Adam Wathan
Premium library of professionally designed Tailwind components, templates and UI kits.
Refactoring UI
refactoringui.com
Design book and video course for developers, co-written with Steve Schoger.
Heroicons
heroicons.com
Free, MIT-licensed SVG icon set made by the Tailwind Labs team.
Collection of task-oriented prompts and workflows for building good-looking UIs with AI.
Test-Driven Laravel
testdrivenlaravel.com
Video course on building a real Laravel application test-first.
Headless UI FAQ
What is Headless UI?
Headless UI is a open source makers product: Unstyled, fully accessible UI components designed to pair with Tailwind CSS.
Who made Headless UI?
Headless UI was made by Adam Wathan, Creator of Tailwind CSS who built a multi-million-dollar business on open source. It launched in 2020. Adam Wathan has also built Tailwind CSS, Tailwind Plus (formerly Tailwind UI), Refactoring UI, Heroicons.
Is Headless UI still active?
Yes. As far as IndieMakerList knows, Headless UI is still active and run by Adam Wathan at headlessui.com.
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