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Design Dna

Design Dna is a free, open-source design system. Turn reference UIs (images, screenshots, URLs) into quantified Design DNA JSON—tokens, qualitative style, visual effects—then generate matching UI from your content. It has 2,045 GitHub stars and is released under the MIT license.

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Get started

Copy the files into a new folder with degit (no git history), or clone the repository with git.

Copy with degit
npx degit zanwei/design-dna my-ui
cd my-ui
Or clone with git
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zanwei/design-dna.git my-ui

Sources: GitHub docs on template repositories, degit.

About Design Dna

English | 中文 | 日本語 | 한국어 | Español | 繁體中文 An agent skill for extracting, structuring, and applying visual design identity as machine-readable "Design DNA" across three dimensions: design tokens, qualitative style, and visual effects.

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How do I use Design Dna?

Copy the files into a new folder with npx degit zanwei/design-dna my-ui (no git history), or fork the repository on GitHub. Then follow the README for the install and dev commands.

Can I use Design Dna for commercial projects?

Yes. Design Dna is released under the MIT license, a permissive license that allows commercial use as long as you keep the copyright and license notice. Third-party assets bundled with it (images, fonts, icons) may have their own terms.

Is Design Dna maintained?

The repository's most recent commit was on Aug 28, 2026. appsgit only lists templates from repositories with a commit in the last six months.