Kern Canvas
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Kern Canvas is a Drupal CMS recipe that bundles the Kern UX Design System with the Canvas base theme to offer a modern, pre-configured site starting point. It includes features for media management, webforms, SEO, anti-spam measures, user authentication, privacy tools, an enhanced admin UI, and a project browser for module discovery.
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