No, it’s more so because Adam and Steve are super cool and involved frontend dudes.
Steve was the personal designer for Taylor Otwell and Laravel long before Tailwind. Steve has created all the most recent Laravel designs for many years.
Prior to starting Tailwind with Adam, Steve wrote up a bunch of fronted design standards and published a book called Refactoring UI. In that time frame, he also created a bunch of free open sourced sets of SVG icons called HeroIcons. HeroIcons were a direct replacement and improvement over Font Awesome.
Somewhere in that timeline, Adam and Steve put everything they had created together into a single project, and that was called Tailwind CSS.
Being on the ground floor of Laravel and the open source community totally helped with their initial exposure. All the things I mentioned above were also popular topics here on HN a year before Tailwind was created.
I don’t understand the downvotes lol.. I’m sorry if I come off as staning for Steve, but I feel that he deserves his credit. You can see his design principals being used on every Shopify checkout page, and every Stripe dashboard page.
I personally met him pre COVID at Laracon, Chicago. I bumped into him during lunch, and he was super cool and open to chat.
I have no affiliation with him, and have only followed him on Twitter after we met.
Steve was the personal designer for Taylor Otwell and Laravel long before Tailwind. Steve has created all the most recent Laravel designs for many years.
Prior to starting Tailwind with Adam, Steve wrote up a bunch of fronted design standards and published a book called Refactoring UI. In that time frame, he also created a bunch of free open sourced sets of SVG icons called HeroIcons. HeroIcons were a direct replacement and improvement over Font Awesome.
Somewhere in that timeline, Adam and Steve put everything they had created together into a single project, and that was called Tailwind CSS.
Being on the ground floor of Laravel and the open source community totally helped with their initial exposure. All the things I mentioned above were also popular topics here on HN a year before Tailwind was created.
https://www.refactoringui.com/ https://heroicons.com/ https://twitter.com/steveschoger