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    carbon-design-system/carbon

    A design system built by IBM

    frontend
    design-system
    hacktoberfest
    javascript
    react
    scss
    TypeScript
    Apache-2.0
    9.6K stars
    2.3K forks
    92 GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 10, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 6 days ago, with 376 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #33 in the weekly ranking the week of Feb 22, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides an open-source design system with React components, styles, icons, and design tokens based on IBM Design Language.
    • Ensures consistent, accessible, and scalable UI development with comprehensive design guidelines and reusable components.
    • Use for building enterprise-grade React applications with a unified design language and ready-to-use UI components.
    • Use for creating web components and design assets that integrate with multiple frameworks like Angular, Vue, and Svelte.
    • Use for implementing IBM Design Language elements such as colors, typography, grid layouts, and motion in custom projects.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    Apache 2.0

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present
    • Code of conduct: present

    Watch-outs

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    From the README

    Carbon is an open-source design system built by IBM. With the IBM Design Language as its foundation, the system consists of working code, design tools and resources, human interface guidelines, and a vibrant community of contributors.

    If you're just getting started, check out @carbon/react or @carbon/web-components.

    We also have community-contributed components for the following technologies:

    If you're trying to find something specific, here's a full list of packages that we support!

    Excerpt from the carbon-design-system/carbon README on GitHub (Apache-2.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Aug 16: +5Sep 3: +10

    +259 stars over 88 days across 9 snapshot days; best day +10 on Sep 3.

    Forks

    2.3K+51

    Open issues

    1.1K+42

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