/carbon-design-kit

A versioned, comprehensive kit of the Carbon Design System visual assets (components, iconography, color palettes, grids, templates).

Carbon Design Kit

The Carbon Design Kit is a living, breathing document that contains all of our visual assets (components, iconography, color palettes, grids, templates, responsive behavior, etc). This document evolves and changes as we collaborate with partners and service teams. All of the assets that live in the Design Kit can also be found on our Carbon Design System website.

📍 Current Version

7.0

📝 Change Log

Contains release notes on current and previous versions of the Carbon Design Kit.

🔍 Accessibility

All of the designs within the Carbon Design Kit meet the WCAG 2.0 AA accessibility guidelines and are compliant with Section 508 standards. If you choose to customize these designs, please make sure they continue to meet these requirements.

📚 Getting Started

Disclaimer: Assets in the Sketch file may render poorly and not to spec if the HelvNeueforIBM.otf font is not being used.

Designers

  • Download the latest version of the Carbon Design Kit by clicking Download ZIP in the upper right hand corner of this page
  • This requires having the latest version of Sketch installed.
  • Open the Design Kit file in Sketch
  • Core visual styles, components, and templates are broken out into respective pages
  • Use the components and core visual styles to build out your design
  • Updates to the Design Kit will be posted in our change log, so check back frequently for changes!

Developers:

Our Carbon Components Getting Started guide has all the instructions you need to get up and running our code base.

🌟 Contributing

Design

Follow the steps in our Contributing guidelines to contribute to the Carbon Design System.

Code

For instructions on contributing to our component library please read our contributing docs for Carbon Comoponents.


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