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necolas/css3-social-signin-buttons
CSS3 Social Sign-in Buttons with icons. Small and large sizes.
A static CSS file and sprite sheet for styled social sign-in buttons covering Facebook, GitHub, Google, Twitter, and a few others. It's a 2012-era solution for a problem that all the major auth providers have since solved with their own official button SDKs and brand guidelines.
- Zero JavaScript, zero dependencies — just drop in a CSS file and a class name
- Public domain license (Unlicense) means no attribution headaches
- necolas (Nicolas Gallagher, normalize.css author) wrote it, so the CSS itself is clean and well-structured
- Self-described as unmaintained since at least 2024, but effectively abandoned much earlier — the sprite-based icon approach is a decade out of date
- Uses Bower for installation, which has been dead since 2017; no npm package, no CDN link worth trusting
- Social platform brand guidelines have changed repeatedly since this was made — the colors, logos, and button shapes shown are almost certainly out of spec for Facebook and Google today
- Twitter is now X, Windows Live ID is gone, OpenID is effectively dead — three of seven supported services no longer exist in the form expected