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Ask HN: How to make bootstrap look more professional

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I'm developing an application for use by the internal users of a public sector organization. There aren't any requirements for fancy UI so I'm just using good old bootstrap 4. However, I think that the defaults don't look as much professional, or if you want "enterpris-y". Could you recommend me a better approach? Ideally I'd like to just keep my bootstrap layout and change some fonts / colors / sizes etc by an extra css style that would override the bootstrap 4 defaults.

Thank you!

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I apologise beforehand if this comes off as spammy, but I recently built a framework which is sort of like an alternative to Bootstrap: https://www.gethalfmoon.com/

Not sure if the design here is more enterprisy, but it might suit your needs.

I have looked at your framework very recently. And it looks super awesome and with very thorough documentation.

Looks great, thank you for sharing.

Could be a nice alternative to bootstrap and Bulma

Took a quick look at it appears really well done :) I’ll save for later.

Seems very nice, I don't think it's spammy at all :) Thank you!

I’ve always thought Redhat’s pattern fly does the best job of this corporate look. https://www.patternfly.org/v4/

Just discovered this from your comment. I’m always looking for stuff like this to reference when designing. Thanks a ton!

Thank you for the suggestion it looks promising!

I used to have this problem but then I recently bought Tailwind UI. It’s $250 but I thought it was totally worth it, it makes it so easy to make stuff professionals if you’re a freelancer or working on multiple projects from scratch, the $250 ends up being worth it over time. I’m not associated to tailwind UI, I’m just recommending it because I really think it’s great and was surprised how easy design became after I got it

I've been using Tailwind more than Bootstrap recently.

Bootstrap is just everywhere and has been for a long time.

It's refreshing to see something new using tailwind.

It takes a little time to get up to speed, but once you do going back to work with bootstrap makes you appreciate how easy tailwind is.

TailwindUI.com is awesome, they have some free components you can use to see if you like it, or you can use tailwind components from other sources.

TailwindUI components are just more polished/pro from the start.

Clarity, from VMWare, is pretty "professional" looking https://clarity.design/documentation/get-started

There are many free themes, try searching for "bootstrap enterprise theme"

This made me laugh quite a bit. Nor sure why, probably the fact that the solution is an enterprised theme - I can't even imagine what that looks like.

Besides, I imagine OP should customise the default or a new theme to suite their needs.

Well as enterprise theme would have some of these characteristics:

* Rather small letters * Boring like colours * Nice layout of components in a grid * Probably a serif font

Think of something like Windows 95 :)

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