Kern Canvas

Kern UX (For Canvas) is a Drupal CMS recipe that pairs the Kern UX Design System with the Canvas base theme, providing a modern, design-system-driven starting point for building Drupal sites.

What it does

This recipe configures a complete Drupal CMS site with sensible defaults and a curated set of features:

• Kern UX Design System — A standalone theme built on the Kern design system with clean typography (Fira Sans), consistent form styling, and modern UI components
• Media management — Rich media library for managing images, documents, and embedded media
• Webforms — Full form building capabilities with a visual UI builder (Webform + Webform UI)
• SEO — Basic SEO tools pre-configured out of the box
• Anti-spam — Spam protection for forms and user-generated content
• Authentication — User login and registration setup
• Privacy — Basic privacy policy tooling
• Admin UI — Enhanced administrative interface
• Project Browser — Discover and install modules directly from the admin UI

Install KernCanvas with:

# Create project (default Drupal CMS installation)
mkdir my-site && cd my-site
ddev config --project-type=drupal --docroot=web
ddev start
ddev composer create-project drupal/cms

# Here starts the Kern UX installation.
# Add Kern UX repository
ddev composer config repositories.kern_ux vcs https://git.drupalcode.org/project/kern_ux.git

# Allow dev packages
ddev composer config minimum-stability dev
ddev composer config prefer-stable true

# Install Kern Canvas
ddev composer require drupal/kern_canvas:1.0.x-dev

# Launch installer and select "Kern Canvas"
ddev launch