A comparison of seven major design systems—Tailwind, Radix, Material 3, Carbon, Ant Design, Primer, and Apple HIG—covering scale structure, neutral colors, dark-mode strategies, and why new projects should prefer OKLCH over HSL.
shadcn/ui is not an npm package — it copies component source code directly into your project, giving you full ownership. DaoDao uses it to build packages/ui, a shared component library used across three Next.js apps.
TailwindCSS's core value is solving CSS's global namespace pollution and dead code problems. Utility classes keep styles co-located with components, and unused classes are automatically purged at build time — production CSS bundles typically come in at just a few dozen KB. Both DaoDao and NobodyClimb use it for web styling.