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KERN UX

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This theme provides the KERN Design System for Drupal, offering a ready-to-use experience with over 40 components built with Single Directory Components. It ensures accessible and standards-compliant styling for forms, buttons, navigation, and more, adhering to the official KERN specification for German public administration websites.

KERN Design-System

brings the KERN UX Design System
— the shared design system for German public administration — to Drupal as a ready-to-use theme built entirely on Single Directory Components (SDC).

Install it, set it as the default theme, and your site renders
with accessible,
standards-compliant KERN UI out of the box: forms, buttons,
alerts, tables,
navigation and more, all themed to the official KERN
specification.

Features

  • 40+ KERN components as native Drupal SDC (button, alert,
    card, table, accordion, tabs, form elements, header, footer,
    breadcrumb, …).
  • Drupal form, system and views template overrides —
    usable KERN styling without manual theming.
  • KERN "Kopfzeile" (official government header)
    integration.
  • Local or CDN delivery of the KERN base CSS, switchable in the
    theme settings.
  • Storybook-documented components for design-system review and
    development.
  • Starter kit for generating your own KERN-based
    sub-theme.
  • Canvas ready components as a subtheme.

Components included

All components ship as native Drupal SDC and are documented in
Storybook.

  • Layout: Container, Row, Column, Section
    (Canvas), Divider
  • Page & navigation: Header, Footer,
    Kopfzeile (government header), Navbar (Canvas), Link, Tabs
  • Typography & content: Heading, Text,
    Icon, Image, Badge, Card
  • Data display: Table, Description list (+
    item), Accordion (+ group), Tasklist (+ header/item), Summary (+
    group)
  • Forms: Form element, Label, Input,
    Textfield, Textarea, Select, Checkbox (+ checkboxes), Radio (+
    radios), Date, File, Button, Submit
  • Feedback & status: Alert, Dialog,
    Loader, Progress

Requirements

  • Drupal 10.x or 11.x
  • PHP 8.3+
  • UI
    Icons
    (ui_icons_font)

Installation

composer require drupal/kern_ux
     drush theme:enable kern_ux
     drush config:set system.theme default kern_ux

Documentation & development

Build and local-development instructions (DDEV, asset build,
Storybook) are in the
README.md and BUILD.md in the
source repository.

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Activity

Tracked releases
3
Tracked since
Jun 2026
Latest release
4 months ago
Releases (12 mo)
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Release Timeline

Releases

Version Type Core PHP Release date
1.0.0-alpha2 Pre-release 10–11 Jun 17, 2026
1.0.0-alpha1 Pre-release 10–11 Jun 17, 2026
1.0.x-dev Dev 10–11 Jun 17, 2026