Design Systems · Evaluation
Adobe Spectrum
Compliance Index score
58.9/100 · F
= flat since last week
Per-category breakdown
Each category is scored independently. The cohort average shows how this site compares to the 30-site cohort in each dimension.
Evaluation
Adobe Spectrum scores 58.9/F on the Designesy Compliance Index — 7 of 42 checks passed, 2 failed, 12 warned, 18 skipped. The cohort mean is 69.3/D across 30 scored sites. Adobe Spectrum sits 15% below the cohort mean.
Strongest category: Identity at 75.0%. Weakest scored category: Tokens at 0.0%. The gap between best and worst is the finding — most systems are strong in one dimension and absent in another.
F-grade means Adobe Spectrum scores below 60 — the contract's pass threshold. The failing checks are not subjective: they are missing CSS primitives that the contract requires at :root.
This evaluation is deterministic — no LLM, no human judgment, no survey. The same 42-check engine that scored Adobe Spectrum scores every site on the leaderboard. Re-score spectrum.adobe.com live to see if anything has changed since 2026-08-03.
Scored 2026-08-03 against contract v0.4.0 (42 checks, 14 weighted categories). Re-scored weekly via GitHub Action.
Compared to Design Systems peers
Adobe Spectrum ranks #14 of 14 in the Design Systems category.
Cohort context
This site
58.9/100
Cohort mean
69.3/100
Cohort median
70.0/100
Delta from mean
-10.4
Why this site is scored
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