Shadow Panda
Shadow Panda is an open-source UI component library built with TypeScript, Panda CSS, and Radix UI, providing accessible and customizable components based on shadcn/ui's design philosophy for developers seeking an alternative to Tailwind CSS.
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About Shadow Panda
This innovative library maintains the same component structure and design patterns as shadcn/ui while leveraging Panda CSS's build-time CSS generation, type safety, and zero-runtime overhead, offering developers the familiar shadcn experience with different styling technology. The project includes a comprehensive preset for Panda CSS, supports React applications, and emphasizes both developer experience and accessibility compliance through proper semantic HTML and ARIA attributes.
Perfect for teams standardizing on Panda CSS across projects, developers seeking type-safe styling with better IDE support, projects requiring fine-grained CSS control beyond utility classes, or applications where build-time CSS generation and smaller bundle sizes matter for performance optimization. Maintained primarily by Atsushi Yoshitake and welcoming community contributions under the MIT license, Shadow Panda demonstrates how the component-driven philosophy can transcend specific CSS frameworks, enabling developers to choose their preferred styling solution while benefiting from proven component designs and accessibility patterns established by the shadcn/ui ecosystem.
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Free, open source, and ready to ship.
Clone the repo, install dependencies, and start customising. Shadow Panda is free and open source: its license is in the repository.
- Clone the Shadow Panda repository from GitHub.
- Run
npm installorpnpm installto install all required packages. - Run
npm run devto start the development server and begin customizing. - Check the repository’s README and license before you ship.
Terminal
$ git clone https://github.com/kumaaa-inc/shadow-panda $ cd shadow-panda $ npm install $ npm run dev
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Everything you need to know before you ship with Shadow Panda.
Shadow Panda is an open-source UI component library built with TypeScript, Panda CSS, and Radix UI, providing accessible and customizable components based on shadcn/ui's design philosophy for developers seeking an alternative to Tailwind CSS. It is an open source template in the shadcn.io collection of 215.
Shadow Panda is made by Kumaaa inc, an independent developer; shadcn.io lists it but did not make it. Kumaaa inc has 1 template in the collection, and the author's page lists them.
The listing tags Shadow Panda with Radix UI. Those are its categories, not a dependency list: the exact packages and versions are in the repository's package.json.
Yes. The Shadow Panda page embeds its live demo from shadow-panda.dev, and links to it so you can open the real deployment before you clone.
The Shadow Panda listing was last updated on October 8, 2025. That date is the listing's, not the repository's: check the repository's commits for recent activity.
Clone the repository (git clone https://github.com/kumaaa-inc/shadow-panda), then follow the README. The Shadow Panda page shows the usual steps and a terminal block with the commands to copy.
Install dependencies with npm install or pnpm install, then run npm run dev. The README in the Shadow Panda repository says which package manager and environment variables it needs.
No. Shadow Panda is cloned from its own GitHub repository, so shadcn.io isn't involved. Browsing the page and its live demo need no account either; Pro adds the premium templates, the blocks and the MCP server.
Follow the deployment notes in the Shadow Panda README: the right host depends on its framework and any services it needs. The page's categories show what it is built for.
The Shadow Panda listing doesn't record a license. Check the LICENSE file in its repository (https://github.com/kumaaa-inc/shadow-panda), and ask the author if there isn't one.
That depends on Shadow Panda's license in its repository, which shadcn.io does not set. Read the LICENSE file before you use it in a client or paid project, and ask the author if it is unclear.
Attribution follows Shadow Panda's license. Many permissive licenses ask you to keep the copyright notice and license text in your copy; its LICENSE file says exactly what.
No. The Pro license covers shadcn.io's own Pro code, blocks and premium templates. Shadow Panda is the author's project, under the terms in its repository.
Kumaaa inc supports Shadow Panda, through its GitHub repository: read the docs, open an issue or look for discussions. shadcn.io does not maintain it.
Yes. Once you clone it, Shadow Panda is your own code: change the theme, add pages and connect your backend. It uses shadcn/ui, so you can also add more components the same way.
Yes. Components are free with a free account and the blocks are in Pro; both are copied into your project with the shadcn CLI. Check that Shadow Panda uses Tailwind CSS and the shadcn/ui setup (a components.json) before you add them, and pick the base library your project already uses.
Yes, with Pro. The shadcn.io MCP server's search_templates tool finds templates by what they are, and returns each one's repository and live demo, so your editor can set up Shadow Panda for you. Your files stay on your machine.
The collection has 29 other open source Radix UI templates like Shadow Panda, shown at the foot of its page with the ones sharing most categories first. All of them are at /template/category/radix-ui.
Kumaaa inc has no other templates in the collection.
Yes. The 14 premium templates (Solaris, Reframe Labs, Spherule and Max and more) are built by shadcn.io and come with every Pro plan, if you want maintained code with a design file.
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