taste:
id: base
name: Base
summary: A light comfortable UI featuring sharp corners, soft-shadow surfaces, and a vivid cool brand.
app_type: WEB_APP
project_types:
- saas
styles:
- corporate
- bold
industry: software
aesthetics:
- corporate
- bold
tags:
- corporate
- bold
theme:
default_mode: LIGHT_MODE
palette_note: Only the 500 anchor is provided per palette; the full 17-step ramp is derived from it.
palettes:
neutral:
'500': '#706C6B'
description: Custom neutral ramp carrying the brand's warm-grey undertones.
brand:
'500': '#0061FE'
description: Pure electric blue brand primary.
danger:
'500': '#9B0032'
warning:
'500': '#9B6400'
success:
'500': '#0F503C'
info:
'500': '#007891'
accent:
'500': '#78286E'
colors:
background:
light: '#FFFFFF'
dark: '#0A0A0A'
foreground:
light: '#1E1919'
dark: '#E2E2E2'
card:
light: '#FFFFFF'
dark: '#1E1919'
card-foreground:
light: '#1E1919'
dark: '#E2E2E2'
popover:
light: '#FFFFFF'
dark: '#1E1919'
popover-foreground:
light: '#1E1919'
dark: '#E2E2E2'
primary:
light: '#0061FE'
dark: '#0F6BFF'
primary-foreground:
light: '#FFFFFF'
dark: '#FFFFFF'
secondary:
light: '#E2E2E2'
dark: '#404040'
secondary-foreground:
light: '#1E1919'
dark: '#FFFFFF'
muted:
light: '#E2E2E2'
dark: '#404040'
muted-foreground:
light: '#5E5B5A'
dark: '#ACACAC'
accent:
light: '#E2E2E2'
dark: '#404040'
accent-foreground:
light: '#1E1919'
dark: '#FFFFFF'
destructive:
light: '#9B0032'
dark: '#9B0032'
destructive-foreground:
light: '#FFFFFF'
dark: '#FFFFFF'
border:
light: '#A09D9B'
dark: '#404040'
input:
light: '#A09D9B'
dark: '#404040'
ring:
light: '#0061FE'
dark: '#0F6BFF'
chart-1:
light: '#0061FE'
dark: '#0F6BFF'
chart-2:
light: '#9B6400'
dark: '#9B6400'
chart-3:
light: '#007891'
dark: '#007891'
chart-4:
light: '#0F503C'
dark: '#0F503C'
chart-5:
light: '#78286E'
dark: '#78286E'
sidebar:
light: '#FFFFFF'
dark: '#1E1919'
sidebar-foreground:
light: '#1E1919'
dark: '#E2E2E2'
sidebar-primary:
light: '#0061FE'
dark: '#0F6BFF'
sidebar-primary-foreground:
light: '#FFFFFF'
dark: '#FFFFFF'
sidebar-accent:
light: '#E2E2E2'
dark: '#404040'
sidebar-accent-foreground:
light: '#1E1919'
dark: '#FFFFFF'
sidebar-border:
light: '#A09D9B'
dark: '#404040'
sidebar-ring:
light: '#0061FE'
dark: '#0F6BFF'
radius:
base:
value: 0rem
description: Strictly sharp corners matching the measured 0px border-radius standard.
shadows:
xs:
value: 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.05)
sm:
value: 0px 0px 0px 3px rgb(48, 128, 255)
md:
value: 0px 0px 0px 3px rgb(48, 128, 255)
lg:
value: 0px 0px 0px 3px rgb(48, 128, 255)
xl:
value: 0px 0px 0px 3px rgb(48, 128, 255)
gradients:
brand_wash:
value: 'linear-gradient(135deg, #0061FE 0%, #007891 100%)'
fonts:
sans:
family: Source Serif 4
description: Rich serif body copy for highly legible editorial text blocks.
display:
family: Inter
description: Crisp, uniform sans-serif display face for primary headers and data.
mono:
family: JetBrains Mono
description: Technical data display.
typography:
hero:
font: display
size_px: 56
line_height_px: 67
weight: 400
letter_spacing_em: -0.01
transform: none
title:
font: display
size_px: 40
line_height_px: 48
weight: 400
letter_spacing_em: 0
transform: none
heading:
font: display
size_px: 24
line_height_px: 29
weight: 400
letter_spacing_em: 0
transform: none
body:
font: sans
size_px: 16
line_height_px: 24
weight: 400
letter_spacing_em: 0
transform: none
caption:
font: sans
size_px: 12
line_height_px: 16
weight: 400
letter_spacing_em: 0
transform: none
label:
font: display
size_px: 16
line_height_px: 24
weight: 500
letter_spacing_em: 0
transform: none
overline:
font: display
size_px: 12
line_height_px: 16
weight: 500
letter_spacing_em: 0.05
transform: uppercase
style_guidelines:
visual_direction:
title: Visual Direction
recommendations:
- >-
Anchor the interface with absolute sharp-edged geometry and vibrant primary-blue
structural focus indicators.
- >-
Frame primary actions as raw, transparent-backed interactive zones with 60px line height
and direct text alignment.
- >-
Combine clinical sans-serif titles with deeply legible serif body copy to build a
authoritative, editorial feel.
hierarchy:
title: Hierarchy
recommendations:
- >-
Elevate core product actions by wrapping them in vivid blue backgrounds or hard outline
strokes.
- Push structural metadata into uniform sans-serif overlines to anchor technical context.
- >-
Establish confidence with large, un-shrunk 56px hero display titles at the entry point of
primary pages.
layout:
title: Layout
recommendations:
- Align interface elements within a strict 1136px maximum width dual-column grid.
- >-
Keep vertical flow predictable using standardized multi-step spacing base multiples of
4px.
components:
title: Components
recommendations:
- >-
Scale action buttons to 60px height with tight 4px horizontal padding to ensure clear
physical presence.
- >-
Standardize status colors to restricted success green and warning amber zones to prevent
visual pollution.
typography:
title: Typography
recommendations:
- >-
Use Source Serif 4 exclusively for dense user instruction blocks and narrative product
descriptions.
- Use Inter for numerical readouts, interface controls, navigation links, and screen labels.
- >-
Keep visual weights uniform at 400 weight except for structural labels demanding a bold
500.
color_and_effects:
title: Color & Effects
recommendations:
- Enforce high-contrast dark focus rings on active elements using electric blue styling.
- Build depth using hard offset shadows of primary blue instead of standard soft grey blurs.
- Restrain color usage to monochromatic fills, reserving the vibrant
quality_bar:
title: Quality Bar
checks:
- id: corner-sharpness
label: Corner Sharpness
recommendation: >-
Ensure every single border, card container, and button retains a absolute sharp corner
without rounding.
- id: typography-fidelity
label: Typography Fidelity
recommendation: Confirm that display titles use Inter weight 400 and body blocks use Source Serif 4.
- id: focus-ring-intensity
label: Focus Ring Intensity
recommendation: Double check that interactive active states render with a sharp 3px blue shadow ring.
- id: contrast-ratio
label: Contrast Ratio
recommendation: >-
All primary text elements must pass a minimum 4.5:1 ratio against their adjacent
backgrounds.
- id: grid-alignment
label: Grid Alignment
recommendation: Keep layout containers bound strictly to the 1136px grid with 24px default gaps.
active_remix:
mode: light
brand: '#0061FE'
display_font: Inter
shape: system
depth: system
spacing: system
spacing_value: null
craft: >
# Craft (universal core + conditional craft)
How to apply this design system well. These rules contain no brand look of their own — all
per-system character comes from the tokens and taste notes above; this section only governs
how they are composed. **Precedence:** the design system above is the authority on how things
look — where its own notes conflict with a rule here, the design system wins. And the user's
request is the authority on what the screen IS — notes above that describe the source
product's screens (workspaces, dashboards, panels) are its aesthetic heritage, not an
instruction to build that kind of screen.
## Universal — applies to every screen (screen-agnostic craft)
- **Surface definition.** Every container is visually separable from what it sits on — at least
one
honest edge cue: a hairline border, a ≥4% tonal step from its parent, or a real shadow. Never a card
whose fill matches its section with no border; never nested surfaces that dissolve together.
- **Accent discipline.** The brand/primary color is a scalpel, not paint: spend it on the primary
action, the active/selected/focused state, and at most **one** brand or data highlight per screen.
Everything else rides neutral background / card / muted / border tokens. A screen flooded with brand
color reads unfinished, not bold.
- **Restraint ledger.** Beauty is also what you don't do: at most one glow and two gradient
directions
screen-wide; decoration only where content doesn't reach; no ornament between a heading and its own
action. Every decorative element must answer "what does this make clearer or more felt?" — if the
answer is "nothing," remove it.
- **Type with intent.** The measured faces/scale are fixed; character comes from *usage*, and the
move
must fit the surface — a marketing page earns a dramatic display move; a working screen earns a
crisp, tight, legible hierarchy at UI scale (display-hero type on a dense tool is a smell). Chrome
and wayfinding are never display type; data numerals are tabular (mono or sans), never the
decorative face. Headings stay roman — italics live as emphasis inside running text, not as
display styling (unless the system's own type says otherwise).
- **Anti-default.** If the screen could pass for a generic template with the colors swapped, it is
not
done. Make the brand unmistakable through the accent's *use*, the type, the radius + density, and
**one** signature detail — never by importing another surface's clichés.
- **Honest content.** Never invent proof — no made-up adoption counts, growth percentages,
testimonials, client logos, or awards. Use the user's real content, a neutral placeholder, or
leave the element out and let the layout carry it. Never hand-draw fake browser bars, phone
frames, or editor chrome around content — show the content itself, or nothing.
- **Interaction integrity.** Buttons, links, tabs, and nav labels never wrap to two lines; display
headlines wrap cleanly, never clipping mid-word; nothing overflows horizontally at any width;
keyboard focus gets an instant, clearly visible ring.
- **Token fidelity.** Every design value comes from a token: colors, radii, shadows, and fonts
from
the system's variables — never a literal hex, a hand-picked shadow, or a substitute font. For a
translucent or composited value (a scrim, a glow, a hairline over a fill), derive it from a token
(an opacity modifier or color-mix), never a literal rgba. If the system specifies square corners and
a hard shadow, the screen shows square corners and that hard shadow — not a rounded, soft substitute.
## Conditional — apply ONLY the layer that matches the screen the user asked for
**First name the screen honestly from the user's prompt.** Then apply the matching guidance. Do
not
cross layers, and **do not add elements from a layer the screen doesn't call for** — a screen that
is
not a data view must not sprout KPI tiles, charts, filter bars, or data tables to satisfy a
template.
- **If it's a data / dashboard / admin / table view:** density done well (comfortable rows, tight
control clusters, one spacing rhythm); a populated working state (real rows/cards, not empty feature
boxes); tables with aligned tabular numerals, status as badges, row hover, one visible selected row,
and control states that agree with the data shown. KPI tiles, *if the screen has them*, are
value + label + delta. **At most one** chart, of a real metric for this domain, token-colored and
axis-labeled — never a decorative sine wave or filler sparkline. Exactly one unambiguous primary
action.
- **If it's a focused task / tool / player / capture / monitor / form / wizard (not a data
view):**
the screen's real job dominates the frame; chrome recedes. Honor the screen's own nature — a player
looks like a player, a monitor like a monitor, a form like a form — with the design system's color,
type, radius, and depth applied to *those* elements. **No dashboard furniture**: no KPI tiles, no
charts, no data tables, no filter chrome unless the task itself is about that data. Real-time or
safety-critical readouts get calm, unambiguous, high-legibility treatment over decoration.
- **If it's a marketing / landing surface:** editorial art direction belongs here — section rhythm
(modulate surface temperature, density, and scale; one oversized moment; at least one full-bleed
band) and considered visual treatments. Never put this on a working app screen.
- **Mobile:** follow the platform's native idioms for the screen's type (e.g. an app screen:
compact
top bar, one focused column, a bottom tab bar, ≥44px targets, safe areas) — the same conditional
rules above still decide what content belongs.
## Imagery (universal)
- **Imagery is content, not decoration** on working screens: images are data (covers, products,
avatars, places) in purposeful containers, one consistent treatment across siblings — never a lone
photo floating in a box, never marketing's decorative fades on a work screen. When a moment needs
atmosphere, build it from the token system (tinted panels, token gradients, geometry).
