🆚 Carbon Design System vs. Spectrum Web Components
Carbon Design System
Spectrum Web ComponentsType
About
Carbon is IBM's open-source design system for products and digital experiences that provides a shared foundation for building consistent user interfaces across applications.
It includes reusable UI components and patterns, design tools such as 
Figma kits, human interface guidelines, and resources aligned with the IBM Design Language, and offers over 50 production-ready components with a structured grid and accessibility support.
The Spectrum Web Components is an implementation of Spectrum, Adobe's design system.
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Popularity by country
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Awards
- ⭐ 6th most popular in the United States in the Design Systems category.
- ⬆️ 40th most popular in the United States in the UI Frameworks category.
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- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites. However, data for Carbon Design System is still being collected and reflects a smaller subset of sites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.