🆚 Calcite Design System vs. Fluent

Type

Design system
Design system

About

Calcite Design System is a collection of design and development resources for creating beautiful, easy-to-use, and cohesive experiences across apps. It includes a UI kit, icons, color schemes, and a web component library with UI elements.

Fluent Design System is Microsoft's cross-platform design language that defines how user interfaces should look and behave across Windows, web, and mobile applications.

It uses a unified set of design tokens for colors, spacing, icons, and typography, and supports adaptive layouts for different screen sizes.

Headquarters

Redlands, California, United States
Redmond, Washington, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Design Systems › Rank #10
Design Systems › Rank #6
UI Frameworks › Rank #53

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Fluent design system is 7 times more popular than Calcite Design System.
Total websites

Market share

Design Systems

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Fluent is more popular than Calcite Design System in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Canada
Australia
France
Netherlands
Spain
Switzerland
Austria

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Fluent is more popular among sites focused on business, education and reference, and marketing and merchandising, while Calcite Design System is more commonly used on public information sites.
Business
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Finance/Banking
Travel
Software/Hardware
Health
Real Estate
Fashion/Beauty

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#13,164
#242,106
#244,063
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Name
Rank
#7,681
#27,775
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See also

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