# Which Design Systems Are Fully Open Source? A Complete Guide to Public GitHub Repositories from Awesome Design Systems

> Discover fully open source design systems with public GitHub repositories. This guide details publicly available projects, their source code, licensing, and build scripts.

- Repository: [Alex Pate/awesome-design-systems](https://github.com/alexpate/awesome-design-systems)
- Tags: getting-started
- Published: 2026-04-12

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**The Awesome Design Systems repository marks every fully open-source design system with a GitHub "octocat" icon in the Source code column, indicating a public repository containing source code, licensing information, and build scripts.**

The `alexpate/awesome-design-systems` repository maintains a curated table of design systems used by governments, enterprises, and startups worldwide. Every entry displaying a GitHub octocat link in the **Source code** column represents a fully open-source project with publicly accessible repositories. These repositories contain component