taste:
id: mint-canopy
name: Mint Canopy
summary: >-
A warm, editorial fintech experience defined by vivid cool-green accents, pillowy glass
surfaces, and elegant serif typography.
app_type: WEB_APP
project_types:
- fintech
styles:
- editorial
- warm
industry: finance-banking
aesthetics:
- editorial
- warm
tags:
- editorial
- warm
theme:
default_mode: LIGHT_MODE
palette_note: >-
Only the 500 anchor is provided per palette; the full 17-step ramp (100-900) is derived from
it by the system's heuristic shade tool.
palettes:
neutral:
'500': '#767676'
description: Derived from the brand's distinct warm-grey ink and surface tones.
brand:
'500': '#008254'
description: The vivid cool-green signature brand anchor.
danger:
'500': '#DC2626'
warning:
'500': '#FFB800'
success:
'500': '#008254'
info:
'500': '#005FB9'
accent:
'500': '#E5FFC0'
colors:
background:
light: '#FFFFFF'
dark: '#0A0A0A'
foreground:
light: '#0A0A0A'
dark: '#FFFFFF'
card:
light: '#FFFFFF'
dark: neutral/900
card-foreground:
light: '#0A0A0A'
dark: '#FFFFFF'
popover:
light: '#FFFFFF'
dark: neutral/900
popover-foreground:
light: '#0A0A0A'
dark: '#FFFFFF'
primary:
light: brand/600
dark: brand/600
primary-foreground:
light: '#FFFFFF'
dark: '#FFFFFF'
secondary:
light: neutral/100
dark: neutral/800
secondary-foreground:
light: neutral/900
dark: neutral/100
muted:
light: neutral/100
dark: neutral/850
muted-foreground:
light: '#64666A'
dark: neutral/400
accent:
light: accent/200
dark: accent/800
accent-foreground:
light: neutral/900
dark: neutral/100
destructive:
light: danger/600
dark: danger/600
destructive-foreground:
light: '#FFFFFF'
dark: '#FFFFFF'
border:
light: '#EBEBEC'
dark: neutral/800
input:
light: neutral/200
dark: neutral/800
ring:
light: brand/500
dark: brand/500
sidebar:
light: '#FFFFFF'
dark: neutral/900
sidebar-foreground:
light: '#0A0A0A'
dark: neutral/100
sidebar-primary:
light: brand/600
dark: brand/600
sidebar-primary-foreground:
light: '#FFFFFF'
dark: '#FFFFFF'
sidebar-accent:
light: neutral/100
dark: neutral/800
sidebar-accent-foreground:
light: '#0A0A0A'
dark: neutral/100
sidebar-border:
light: '#EBEBEC'
dark: neutral/800
sidebar-ring:
light: brand/500
dark: brand/500
chart-1:
light: brand/500
dark: brand/450
chart-2:
light: info/500
dark: info/450
chart-3:
light: warning/500
dark: warning/450
chart-4:
light: accent/500
dark: accent/450
chart-5:
light: neutral/500
dark: neutral/450
radius:
base:
value: 1rem
description: Base radius mapping to the measured 16px lg corner.
shadows:
xs:
value: 0 1px 2px rgba(100, 102, 106, 0.05)
sm:
value: 0 2px 4px rgba(100, 102, 106, 0.08)
md:
value: 0 4px 12px rgba(100, 102, 106, 0.1)
lg:
value: 0 8px 24px rgba(100, 102, 106, 0.12)
xl:
value: >-
0 5.143px 20.571px rgba(100, 102, 106, 0.15), 0 20.571px 51.429px rgba(100, 102, 104,
0.15)
gradients:
fade_dark:
value: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50.2%, rgb(0, 0, 0))
fade_brand:
value: linear-gradient(rgba(183, 236, 218, 0) 30%, rgba(183, 236, 218, 0.6))
fonts:
sans:
family: IBM Plex Sans
description: UI body and controls
display:
family: IBM Plex Serif
description: Headings and hero
mono:
family: IBM Plex Mono
description: Code and data
typography:
hero:
font: display
size_px: 40
line_height_px: 48
weight: 500
letter_spacing_em: -0.02
transform: none
title:
font: display
size_px: 18
line_height_px: 25
weight: 500
letter_spacing_em: -0.025
transform: none
heading:
font: display
size_px: 18
line_height_px: 23
weight: 500
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: 14
line_height_px: 14
weight: 400
letter_spacing_em: 0
transform: none
label:
font: sans
size_px: 13
line_height_px: 16
weight: 700
letter_spacing_em: 0
transform: none
overline:
font: sans
size_px: 12
line_height_px: 16
weight: 600
letter_spacing_em: 0.08
transform: uppercase
style_guidelines:
visual_direction:
title: Visual Direction
recommendations:
- >-
The brand defines itself through a vivid cool-green palette set against dramatic,
tight-tracked IBM Plex Serif typography and warm editorial surfaces.
- >-
Employ generous use of the measured soft fade gradients strictly as transparent overlays
or section edge-fades, never as bold standalone bands.
- >-
Balance the editorial feel with high-density card layouts to maintain task efficiency and
scanability.
hierarchy:
title: Hierarchy
recommendations:
- >-
Anchor page hierarchy with the measured 40px display size for heroes or main titles, never
shrinking it to a timid heading.
- >-
Rely on the sharp contrast between the 700-weight compact button typography and the
400-weight standard body text to quickly orient users.
- >-
Use the vivid #008254 primarily for high-confidence workflow actions, letting the muted
slate greys handle secondary structural lines.
layout:
title: Layout
recommendations:
- >-
Preserve the 1152px max-width 3-column grid structure for complex data, utilizing the 16px
card padding and 32px section gaps to maintain breathing room.
components:
title: Components
recommendations:
- >-
Primary buttons must strictly honor the measured 44px height and 2px border radius,
contrasting intentionally with the softer 16px radii of larger card surfaces.
- >-
Integrate real image slots and thumbnails at the measured high density, avoiding sparse or
text-only component configurations.
typography:
title: Typography
recommendations:
- >-
Maintain normal leading and uniform-light weights across body copy to ensure complex
financial figures remain easily readable.
- >-
Reserve uppercase tracking exclusively for the small overline style to categorize metadata
without shouting.
color_and_effects:
title: Color & Effects
recommendations:
- >-
Apply the measured #008254 vivid cool-green exclusively for primary actions and brand
moments, preventing visual fatigue in data-heavy tasks.
- >-
Utilize the specific, deep soft-shadow formulas to gently elevate critical cards and
popovers without introducing harsh contrast lines.
- >-
Keep the neutral UI canvas crisp and warm by grounding it in the measured #FFFFFF
background and #EBEBEC borders.
quality_bar:
title: Quality Bar
checks:
- id: display-scale-honored
label: Display Scale Honored
recommendation: >-
The first screen must feature type at the measured 40px/weight-500 scale, avoiding timid
down-sizing for heroes or page titles.
- id: measured-radii-applied
label: Measured Radii Applied
recommendation: >-
Corner radii strictly follow the measured scale (2px buttons, 16px for large cards), never
defaulting to arbitrary roundness.
- id: gradient-restraint
label: Gradient Restraint
recommendation: >-
Soft fade/scrim gradients are applied strictly as transparent fade-outs for images or
overlays, never as solid decorative blocks.
- id: imagery-density
label: Imagery Density
recommendation: >-
Screens include real image slots and thumbnails reflecting the brand's image-dense nature,
avoiding sparse or purely text-driven pages.
- id: action-contrast
label: Action Contrast
recommendation: >-
Primary interactive elements utilize the vibrant #008254 anchor fill with white text,
ensuring high legibility and clear workflow orientation.
active_remix:
mode: light
brand: '#008254'
display_font: IBM Plex Serif
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).
