dotless

Dotless is a term that can refer to different concepts in typography and web development.

In typography, dotless i refers to the lowercase letter i written without a dot, represented by the Unicode character ı (U+0131). It is used in Turkish and several other Turkic alphabets, where it contrasts with the dotted i. The uppercase form is I (U+0049). The dotless i denotes a distinct vowel and is an essential part of the language orthography.

In web development, Dotless is the name of a .NET-based compiler for the LESS CSS preprocessor. Dotless translates LESS code into standard CSS and supports features such as variables, nesting, mixins, and operations. It is used in ASP.NET projects and can run at runtime or as part of a build process via the dotless.Core library or related tooling.

The term dotless thus covers both a character in certain writing systems and a software project that implements a CSS preprocessing language. The intended meaning is usually clear from context, whether discussing typography or web development workflows.