There is several strategy for naming class. Some of them are more expensive in time than others. I found a nice article one year ago that helped me a lot, in: understand the situation (some different strategy) give me the practical knowledge to know how and what choose by myself The article is CSS, Sass, SCSS, Compass, Less, BEM, SMACSS, OOCSS, ACSS, CCSS, WTFSS? by Lee Munroe, i hope that will help.