Breadcrumb

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Last updated Aug 11, 2026

The breadcrumb is a secondary navigation pattern that helps a user understand the hierarchy among levels and navigate back through them.

Breadcrumb

Color

Element

Property

Color token

Text: enabled

text-color

$link-primary

Text: current

text-color

$text-primary

Slash

text-color

$text-primary

Overflow: icon

svg

$link-primary

Breadcrumb color and overflow color

Breadcrumb color and overflow color

State

Element

Property

Color token

Hover

Text

text-color

$link-primary-hover

Focus

Text

text-color

$link-primary

Border

border

$focus

Active

Text

text-color

$text-primary

Border

border

$focus

Current

Text

text-color

$text-primary

Breadcrumb interactive state color

Breadcrumb interactive state color

A group of breadcrumbs with overflow content uses the overflow menu component to disclose additional breadcrumbs in a menu view. A tooltip component appears in the hover, focus, and active states. Use the menu and tooltip colors for these instances.

State

Element

Property

Color token

Hover

Icon

svg

$link-primary-hover

Focus

Icon

svg

$link-primary

Border

border

$focus

Active

Icon

svg

$icon-primary

Border

border

$focus

Breadcrumb overflow interactive state color

Breadcrumb overflow interactive state color

Typography

There are two sizes of breadcrumbs: small and medium. Each breadcrumb size uses a different type token. Breadcrumbs receive an underline in the hover, focus, and active states.

Element

Font-size (px/rem)

Font-weight

Type token

Text: small

12 / 0.75

Regular / 400

$label-01

Text: medium

14 / 0.875

Regular / 400

$body-compact-01

Text: overflow menu

14 / 0.875

Regular / 400

$body-compact-01

Structure

When an overflow menu is present to disclose overflow breadcrumbs, use the menu component structure.

Small breadcrumb structure

Element

Property

px/rem

Spacing token

Link

margin-left, margin-right

4 / 0.25

$spacing-02

Link: overflow icon

margin-left, margin-right

4 / 0.25

$spacing-02

Link: overflow menu

height

40 / 2.5

$spacing-08

Structure and spacing measurements for small breadcrumb | px / rem

Structure and spacing measurements for small breadcrumb | px / rem

Structure and spacing measurements for small breadcrumb overflow | px / rem

Structure and spacing measurements for small breadcrumb overflow | px / rem

Medium breadcrumb structure

Element

Property

px/rem

Spacing token

Link

margin-left, margin-right

8 / 0.5

$spacing-03

Link: overflow icon

margin-left, margin-right

8 / 0.5

$spacing-03

Link: overflow menu

height

40 / 2.5

$spacing-08

Structure and spacing measurements for medium breadcrumb | px / rem

Structure and spacing measurements for medium breadcrumb | px / rem

Structure and spacing measurements for medium breadcrumb overflow | px / rem

Structure and spacing measurements for medium breadcrumb overflow | px / rem

Size

Element

Size

Height (px/rem)

Breadcrumb

Small (sm)

16 / 1

Medium (md)

18 / 1.125

Size measurements for small and medium breadcrumb | px / rem

Size measurements for small and medium breadcrumb | px / rem

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