🆚 Carbon Design System vs. Spectrum Web Components

Type

Design system
User interface framework

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.

Headquarters

Armonk, New York, United States
San Jose, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Design Systems › Rank #12
Design Systems › Rank #9
UI Frameworks › Rank #58
UI Frameworks › Rank #50

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Spectrum Web Components UI framework is 2.1 times more popular than Carbon Design System.
Total websites

Market share

Design Systems
UI Frameworks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Spectrum Web Components is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Japan, while Carbon Design System is more popular in Switzerland and Spain.
United States
Germany
Japan
United Kingdom
Australia
France
Poland
Switzerland
Spain
Portugal

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Spectrum Web Components is more popular among sites focused on education and reference, government and military, and Internet services, while Carbon Design System is more commonly used on business, travel, and software and hardware sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Government/Military
Travel
Online Shopping
Software/Hardware
Internet Services
Recreation/Hobbies
Blogs/Wiki

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#13,035
bovada.lv
#18,811
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Name
Rank
#12,786
#13,548
#14,974
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See also

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