About the Carbon for Vaadin category

Carbon for Vaadin: A theme for Vaadin 23 based on IBM’s Carbon design system.

It’s not a perfect one-to-one recreation. Some of the differences between Carbon and Vaadin cannot be amended with CSS. There are also a few things I wasn’t able to figure out based on Carbon’s current documentation and source code.

To install this add-on, check out the latest version and Maven/Gradle dependency snippets from the Directory.

After setting the dependency in pom.xml, update your frontend/themes/mytheme/theme.json to have parent configuration

{
  "lumoImports" : [ "typography", "color", "spacing", "badge", "utility" ],
  "parent": "carbon"
}

You can still make your own changes on top in the applications theme.