diff --git a/packages/create-analog/__tests__/cli.spec.ts b/packages/create-analog/__tests__/cli.spec.ts
index fc60853ae..e6bd22618 100644
--- a/packages/create-analog/__tests__/cli.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/create-analog/__tests__/cli.spec.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-import { join } from 'node:path';
 import type { ExecaSyncReturnValue, SyncOptions } from 'execa';
 import { commandSync } from 'execa';
 import { mkdirpSync, readdirSync, remove, writeFileSync } from 'fs-extra';
+import { join } from 'node:path';
 import { afterEach, beforeAll, expect, test } from 'vitest';
 
 const CLI_PATH = join(__dirname, '..');
@@ -33,7 +33,12 @@ templateFiles.push('.git');
 templateFiles = templateFiles
   .map((filePath) => (filePath === '_gitignore' ? '.gitignore' : filePath))
   .sort();
-
+// starter with tailwind
+const templateFilesTailwind = [
+  ...templateFiles,
+  'tailwind.config.js',
+  'postcss.config.js',
+].sort();
 beforeAll(() => remove(genPath));
 afterEach(() => remove(genPath));
 
@@ -78,9 +83,12 @@ test('asks to overwrite non-empty current directory', () => {
 });
 
 test('successfully scaffolds a project based on angular starter template', () => {
-  const { stdout } = run([projectName, '--template', 'angular-v15'], {
-    cwd: __dirname,
-  });
+  const { stdout } = run(
+    [projectName, '--template', 'angular-v15', '--skipTailwind'],
+    {
+      cwd: __dirname,
+    }
+  );
   const generatedFiles = readdirSync(genPath).sort();
 
   // Assertions
@@ -89,7 +97,7 @@ test('successfully scaffolds a project based on angular starter template', () =>
 });
 
 test('works with the -t alias', () => {
-  const { stdout } = run([projectName, '-t', 'angular-v15'], {
+  const { stdout } = run([projectName, '-t', 'angular-v15', '--skipTailwind'], {
     cwd: __dirname,
   });
   const generatedFiles = readdirSync(genPath).sort();
diff --git a/packages/create-analog/files/postcss.config.js b/packages/create-analog/files/postcss.config.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..12a703d90
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/create-analog/files/postcss.config.js
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+module.exports = {
+  plugins: {
+    tailwindcss: {},
+    autoprefixer: {},
+  },
+};
diff --git a/packages/create-analog/files/styles.css b/packages/create-analog/files/styles.css
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6c77ebbd3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/create-analog/files/styles.css
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+/* Tailwind directives  */
+@tailwind base;
+@tailwind components;
+@tailwind utilities;
+
+/* You can add global styles to this file, and also import other style files */
+:root {
+  font-family: Inter, Avenir, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
+  font-size: 16px;
+  line-height: 24px;
+  font-weight: 400;
+
+  color-scheme: light dark;
+  color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.87);
+  background-color: #242424;
+
+  font-synthesis: none;
+  text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;
+  -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
+  -moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
+  -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;
+}
+
+a {
+  font-weight: 500;
+  color: #646cff;
+  text-decoration: inherit;
+}
+a:hover {
+  color: #535bf2;
+}
+
+body {
+  margin: 0;
+  display: flex;
+  place-items: center;
+  min-width: 320px;
+  min-height: 100vh;
+}
+
+h1 {
+  font-size: 3.2em;
+  line-height: 1.1;
+}
+
+button {
+  border-radius: 8px;
+  border: 1px solid transparent;
+  padding: 0.6em 1.2em;
+  font-size: 1em;
+  font-weight: 500;
+  font-family: inherit;
+  background-color: #1a1a1a;
+  cursor: pointer;
+  transition: border-color 0.25s;
+}
+button:hover {
+  border-color: #646cff;
+}
+button:focus,
+button:focus-visible {
+  outline: 4px auto -webkit-focus-ring-color;
+}
+
+.card {
+  padding: 2em;
+}
+
+.logo {
+  @apply box-content;
+}
+
+@media (prefers-color-scheme: light) {
+  :root {
+    color: #213547;
+    background-color: #ffffff;
+  }
+  a:hover {
+    color: #747bff;
+  }
+  button {
+    background-color: #f9f9f9;
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/create-analog/files/tailwind.config.js b/packages/create-analog/files/tailwind.config.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..dbd1c5c33
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/create-analog/files/tailwind.config.js
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+/** @type {import('tailwindcss').Config} */
+module.exports = {
+  content: ['./index.html', './src/**/*.{html,ts,md}'],
+  theme: {
+    extend: {},
+  },
+  plugins: [],
+};
diff --git a/packages/create-analog/index.js b/packages/create-analog/index.js
index 4e75bf7f3..f32b81baa 100755
--- a/packages/create-analog/index.js
+++ b/packages/create-analog/index.js
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env node
 
 // @ts-check
+import { green, red, reset, yellow } from 'kolorist';
+import minimist from 'minimist';
+import { execSync } from 'node:child_process';
 import fs from 'node:fs';
 import path from 'node:path';
 import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
-import minimist from 'minimist';
 import prompts from 'prompts';
-import { red, reset, yellow, green } from 'kolorist';
-import { execSync } from 'node:child_process';
 
 // Avoids autoconversion to number of the project name by defining that the args
 // non associated with an option ( _ ) needs to be parsed as a string. See #4606
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ const renameFiles = {
 async function init() {
   let targetDir = formatTargetDir(argv._[0]);
   let template = argv.template || argv.t;
+  let skipTailwind = argv.skipTailwind || false;
 
   const defaultTargetDir = 'analog-project';
   const getProjectName = () =>
@@ -123,6 +124,11 @@ async function init() {
               };
             }),
         },
+        {
+          type: skipTailwind ? null : 'confirm',
+          name: 'tailwind',
+          message: 'Would you like to add Tailwind to your project?',
+        },
       ],
       {
         onCancel: () => {
@@ -136,7 +142,7 @@ async function init() {
   }
 
   // user choice associated with prompts
-  const { framework, overwrite, packageName, variant } = result;
+  const { framework, overwrite, packageName, variant, tailwind } = result;
 
   const root = path.join(cwd, targetDir);
 
@@ -148,6 +154,7 @@ async function init() {
 
   // determine template
   template = variant || framework || template;
+  skipTailwind = !tailwind || skipTailwind;
 
   console.log(`\nScaffolding project in ${root}...`);
 
@@ -157,6 +164,8 @@ async function init() {
     `template-${template}`
   );
 
+  const filesDir = path.resolve(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url), '..', `files`);
+
   const write = (file, content) => {
     const targetPath = renameFiles[file]
       ? path.join(root, renameFiles[file])
@@ -173,6 +182,12 @@ async function init() {
     write(file);
   }
 
+  if (!skipTailwind) {
+    addTailwindConfig(write, filesDir);
+    addPostCssConfig(write, filesDir);
+    addTailwindDirectives(write, filesDir);
+  }
+
   const pkgInfo = pkgFromUserAgent(process.env.npm_config_user_agent);
   const pkgManager = pkgInfo ? pkgInfo.name : 'npm';
   const pkg = JSON.parse(
@@ -182,6 +197,8 @@ async function init() {
   pkg.name = packageName || getProjectName();
   pkg.scripts.start = getStartCommand(pkgManager);
 
+  if (!skipTailwind) addDevDependencies(pkg);
+
   write('package.json', JSON.stringify(pkg, null, 2));
 
   console.log(`\nInitializing git repository:`);
@@ -302,6 +319,36 @@ function getStartCommand(pkgManager) {
   return pkgManager === 'yarn' ? 'yarn dev' : `${pkgManager} run dev`;
 }
 
+function addTailwindDirectives(write, filesDir) {
+  write(
+    'src/styles.css',
+    fs.readFileSync(path.join(filesDir, `styles.css`), 'utf-8')
+  );
+}
+
+function addPostCssConfig(write, filesDir) {
+  write(
+    'postcss.config.js',
+    fs.readFileSync(path.join(filesDir, `postcss.config.js`), 'utf-8')
+  );
+}
+
+function addTailwindConfig(write, filesDir) {
+  write(
+    'tailwind.config.js',
+    fs.readFileSync(path.join(filesDir, `tailwind.config.js`), 'utf-8')
+  );
+}
+
+function addDevDependencies(pkg) {
+  ['tailwindcss@^3.3.1', 'postcss@^8.4.21', 'autoprefixer@^10.4.14'].forEach(
+    (packageName) => {
+      const [name, version] = packageName.split('@');
+      pkg.devDependencies[name] = version;
+    }
+  );
+}
+
 init().catch((e) => {
   console.error(e);
 });
diff --git a/packages/create-analog/package.json b/packages/create-analog/package.json
index 250a7adb9..07df2a2cf 100644
--- a/packages/create-analog/package.json
+++ b/packages/create-analog/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "create-analog",
-  "version": "0.2.9",
+  "version": "0.2.10",
   "type": "module",
   "license": "MIT",
   "author": "Brandon Roberts",
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@
   },
   "files": [
     "index.js",
-    "template-*"
+    "template-*",
+    "files"
   ],
   "main": "index.js",
   "engines": {