Inside KCDS
What’s new
Release notes and practical guides for our shared design language.
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One organization. One brand. Every product.
v1.18.0 makes organization branding a shared platform setting, extending the same identity across products and email.
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Four product families. One connected palette.
How Learn, Comply, Grow, and Hire use distinct accents within one system.
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Helpful AI. People stay in control.
Use suggestions, confirmations, and clear recovery paths to keep AI interactions understandable.
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Make room for different ways of working
Comfortable and compact density support different amounts of information without changing the visual language.
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v1.17.0: readable text on every surface
Released 30 September 2026. The latest foundations release strengthens text contrast across themes and product families.
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A better blue for dark-mode information
The information background now follows the current Comply blue, closing a small but persistent colour mismatch.
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Closing the gaps between colour rules and examples
A whole-bundle audit corrected eight documentation defects and brought reference colours back into sync.
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Finding a product by the name you know
Current names, former names, and product briefs are connected more clearly in the foundations documentation.
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Meet Hire, the fourth product family
Periwinkle joins the palette as KC Recruit, KC Onboard, and KC Talent come together in the Hire suite.
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Small badges deserve readable colour
Dedicated on-tint text roles give status, severity, and sensitivity labels a clearer relationship with their backgrounds.
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Three accents, a clearer product identity
Learn becomes vermilion, Comply blue, and Grow emerald, while corporate orange returns to its brand role.
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Readable inputs cannot depend on screen width
The input-font rule is clarified: a narrow-screen override does not solve a browser-dependent focus problem.
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Choose type by script, not by locale
The RTL font-stack correction preserves Latin typography alongside Arabic, Hebrew, and Urdu.
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