Spectrum is Adobe's design system unifying the experience across Adobe Creative Cloud, Document Cloud, and Experience Cloud, with open-source implementations shipped as Spectrum CSS, React Spectrum, and Spectrum Web Components.
It provides three separate open-source implementations of the same design language, plain CSS, React, and framework-agnostic web components, so a team can adopt Spectrum regardless of their existing stack, an unusually broad implementation strategy compared to most single-framework systems.
Developers building creative or content-production tools who want a system proven across dozens of major creative applications at real production scale.
Spectrum 2, unveiled in 2023, is a significant visual evolution across 100+ Adobe applications, worth checking which version (1 or 2) any given reference or component targets.
Adobe's own design system.
