Foundation's Beginnings
2008
The ZURB Style Guide is created to help us speed up our work. It’s a handy collection of HTML, CSS and Javascript that we use on every client project. The ideas of ZURB Style Guide evolve over the years and form the basis for a new framework, Foundation.
2010
ZURB style guide was solidified and named Foundation. It is being used internally on all client projects and ZURB sites and apps.
2011
Foundation 2.0 is released to the public as an open source project! Foundation is the first responsive front-end framework and helps lead the charge for RWD across the web.
2012
Foundation 3.0 is released! This version comes with Sass and is the first framework to use mixins and Sass partials.
2013 - february
This year saw not one, but three releases to Foundation! Version 4 went mobile first, added many new components, and came with a visual update. Our responsive image plugin called Interchange was added to Foundation to make sites built with it load even faster.
2013 - november
Foundation 5 is all about speed. It made learning, using and developing with the framework faster than ever! More new components like Equalizer, Off-canvas, and Icon-bar make a more complete package. Our responsive content plugin, Interchange can now swap in HTML content and images based on screen size.
2013 - november
Foundation for Emails (formerly Ink), our responsive email framework is launched at the end of the year and helps designers easily create beautiful, responsive emails.
2014 - november
We launched Foundation for Apps, the first front-end framework created for developing fully responsive web apps.
2015
Foundation for Sites 6 is released. Faster, lighter, more versatile, more flexible and more powerful than ever before to get your projects from Prototype to Production.
2016
Foundation for Emails 2 is launched, revolutionizing email development through a workflow that uses the latest web technologies.