# Stacks (Stack Overflow Design System) — Design Style Reference

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**System:** Stacks (Stack Overflow Design System)
**Owner:** Stack Overflow
**Official documentation:** https://stackoverflow.design/


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## Summary

Stack Overflow's open-source design system documenting the patterns behind Stack Overflow and Teams.

## Engineering profile

- **Ships for:** CSS-only
- **Token pipeline:** Custom
- **Source model:** Open source

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> Design in the spirit of Stacks (Stack Overflow Design System) by Stack Overflow — Stack Overflow's open-source design system documenting the patterns behind Stack Overflow and Teams. Match the intent, not the pixels; adapt it to my product rather than cloning it.

## Official reference

- [Stacks (Stack Overflow Design System) documentation](https://stackoverflow.design/)

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