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

April 12, 2026 alexpate/awesome-design-systems ↗

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

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