# Carbon Design System

Open-source design system built by IBM, with React and Web Components packages.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/carbon/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-19
Updated: 2026-10-25
Listed since: 2026-10-19

## Record

### Links

- home: https://www.carbondesignsystem.com
- repository: https://github.com/carbon-design-system/carbon
- docs: https://carbondesignsystem.com/developing/frameworks/react/
- x: https://x.com/_carbondesign

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: International Business Machines Corporation
- maintainerType: company
- parent: IBM
- firstRelease: 2021
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: ui-library
- hosting: not applicable
- language: javascript
- runtime: unknown
- runtimeMin: not applicable
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: not applicable
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: npm

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: Apache-2.0

### Releases

- currentMajor: 11
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-10-07

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 9558
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: 84207
- contributors: 377
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 102
- dependentPackages: 164

### Sources

- urls: https://github.com/carbon-design-system/carbon (read 2026-10-19)
- urls: https://github.com/carbon-design-system/carbon (read 2026-10-19)
- urls: https://carbondesignsystem.com/developing/frameworks/react/ (read 2026-10-19)
- firstRelease: https://registry.npmjs.org/@carbon/react (read 2026-10-19)
- maintainer: https://www.ibm.com/legal (read 2026-10-20)
- maintainerType: https://github.com/carbon-design-system/carbon (read 2026-10-19)
- parent: https://github.com/carbon-design-system/carbon (read 2026-10-19)
- language: https://github.com/carbon-design-system/carbon (read 2026-10-19)
- category: https://carbondesignsystem.com/developing/get-started/ (read 2026-10-19)
- installMethod: https://carbondesignsystem.com/developing/frameworks/react/ (read 2026-10-19)
- license: https://github.com/carbon-design-system/carbon (read 2026-10-19)
- licenseModel: https://github.com/carbon-design-system/carbon (read 2026-10-19)
- currentMajor: https://carbondesignsystem.com/developing/get-started/ (read 2026-10-19)
- latestReleaseDate: https://github.com/carbon-design-system/carbon/releases/tag/v11.118.0 (read 2026-10-19)
- githubStargazers: https://github.com/carbon-design-system/carbon (read 2026-10-19)
- contributors: https://github.com/carbon-design-system/carbon (read 2026-10-19)
- npmWeeklyDownloads: https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/point/last-week/@carbon/react (read 2026-10-19)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/%40carbon%2Freact (read 2026-10-25)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/%40carbon%2Freact (read 2026-10-25)

## Notes

Carbon Design System is a design system that IBM builds and maintains. The @carbon/react package supplies its components, styles and icons to React projects, and the design system also has official support for Web Components. The React documentation says that the components need a build pipeline in the consuming project.

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