GOV.UK Design System

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GOV.UK Design System Free Publicly available code · MIT license design-system.service.gov.uk · 4 Oct 2026

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Free plan: Yes
Design-system ready: Yes
Responsive components: Yes
Accessibility guidance: Yes
License scope: commercial

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GOV.UK Design System

Purpose: The Design System helps government teams build consistent services using GOV.UK styles, components and patterns.
Styles: Its style guidance covers page structure, typography and visual elements such as colour and images.
Components: It provides reusable interface components with guidance and coded examples.
Patterns: Its patterns offer best-practice design solutions for specific user-focused tasks and page types.
Research: Published styles, components and patterns include details about how and when they were tested in user research.
Integration: Teams can include GOV.UK Frontend in a project through npm or by downloading and including compiled files.
Templates: Production components can be used as HTML or as Nunjucks macros when GOV.UK Frontend is installed with npm and the application uses Node.js.
License: The Design System code is public and freely available under the MIT License.
Accessibility: The team aims for WCAG level AA compliance, and says using the Design System does not by itself make a service accessible.
Accessibility testing: The team tests component accessibility with a mix of tools, automated deployment tests and manual testing.
Support: The team focuses its support on central UK government digital services and says it may not be able to provide reliable guidance for other contexts.
Community: People can contribute through discussions, events, co-design collaborations, research and component or pattern development.
Limit: Using compiled files includes all GOV.UK Frontend CSS and JavaScript but does not support selectively including component CSS or JavaScript or customizing the build.
Audience: The team says the Design System is intended for people working on government services, with a focus on central UK government digital services.
Price from: Free

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design-system.service.gov.uk· checked 3 Oct 2026
design-system.service.gov.uk/styles/· checked 3 Oct 2026
design-system.service.gov.uk/components/· checked 3 Oct 2026
design-system.service.gov.uk/patterns/· checked 3 Oct 2026
design-system.service.gov.uk/get-started/· checked 3 Oct 2026
design-system.service.gov.uk/get-started/production/· checked 3 Oct 2026
design-system.service.gov.uk/accessibility/accessibility-strategy/· checked 3 Oct 2026
design-system.service.gov.uk/contact/· checked 3 Oct 2026
design-system.service.gov.uk/community/· checked 3 Oct 2026
design-system.service.gov.uk/get-started/prototyping/· checked 4 Oct 2026
design-system.service.gov.uk/design-system-team/· checked 4 Oct 2026