Contributing

Help Dialtone be even better.

Component Contribution

Design

TBD

Code

To make code changes in our Design System please first read the CONTRIBUTING.md in our Dialtone repository.

Adding Icons and Illustrations

If you need to add an icon into Dialtone, here’s how you would go about doing that.

For System Icons

  1. Create a new branch starting with "feat/" in the name.

  2. Place the exported SVG file(s) in the appropriate folder category inside packages/dialtone-icons/src/svg/icons/

  3. If you need to add keywords related to the icon.

    • Add the icon name to packages/dialtone-icons/src/keywords-icons.json into the correct category.
    • Add the keywords array as the value. e.g.
    {
       "arrows": {
         "arrow-left": ["arrow", "left", "direction"],
         ...
       }
    }
    
  4. Commit and push your branch.

  5. Open a pull request.

  6. Once approved it can be merged into staging and will go out in the next release.

For System Illustrations

  1. Create a new branch starting with "feat/" in the name.

  2. Place the exported SVG file(s) in the appropriate folder category inside packages/dialtone-icons/src/svg/illustrations/

  3. If you need to add keywords related to the illustration.

    • Add the illustration name to packages/dialtone-icons/src/keywords-illustrations.json into the correct category.
    • Add the keywords array as the value. e.g.
    {
       "spot-illustrations": {
         "blank-space": ["blank", "space"],
         ...
       }
    }
    
  4. Commit and push your branch.

  5. Open a pull request.

  6. Once approved it can be merged into staging and will go out in the next release.

Contributing documentation last updated Thursday, June 11, 2026