A versioned Figma and Sketch kit containing all visual assets (components, icons, styles) from the Carbon Design System.
Carbon Design Kit is a versioned collection of visual assets from the Carbon Design System, including components, icons, pictograms, color styles, text styles, and grid templates. It serves as the primary design resource for teams building products with Carbon, ensuring visual consistency and accessibility compliance. The kit is maintained primarily in Figma, with legacy support for Sketch.
Designers and product teams working on digital products that use or want to adopt the Carbon Design System for their user interfaces.
It provides a single, authoritative source for all Carbon visual assets, with built-in accessibility compliance and versioning to keep designs in sync with the latest system updates. The Figma library integration streamlines the design workflow and ensures consistency across projects.
A versioned, comprehensive kit of the Carbon Design System visual assets (components, icons, pictograms, text styles, color styles, grid templates).
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The kit is released in versioned packages with a detailed change log, allowing teams to track updates and maintain consistency over time, as highlighted in the README.
All designs meet WCAG 2.1 AA guidelines and Section 508 standards, ensuring inclusive design practices from the start, as specified in the accessibility section.
Primary support for Figma libraries enables seamless component usage and updates, streamlining design workflows with built-in Carbon elements.
Includes components, icons, pictograms, color styles, text styles, and grid templates, providing full design coverage for Carbon-based projects.
Uses IBM Plex, an open-source typeface free to download, ensuring typographic consistency without licensing barriers.
Sketch files are available but no longer maintained, forcing users to migrate to Figma for updates, which can disrupt existing workflows and cause versioning issues.
Heavily tied to the Carbon Design System and IBM tools, limiting its relevance for projects outside this ecosystem and creating vendor lock-in.
Primarily optimized for Figma, with minimal active support for other design software, reducing options for teams with diverse tool preferences.