Carbon Design System
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.
A design system is a collection of pre-built, reusable assets—components, patterns, guidance, and code—that allows its users to build consistent digital experiences faster. By using the pre-built and universal assets of Carbon, the time teams spend designing and building is minimized. Instead of building and re-building basic elements, they can spend that time customizing their products to address specific client use cases.
Carbon is open source
Carbon is funded and built by IBM, which means we build for the company’s business needs, but we’ve made it open source for anyone to use and contribute back to. While being primarily open source, Carbon also serves various parts of the IBM business that follow an inner source model.
