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Design

The design system behind this site

I built one set of colors, type and components for my own projects, and this site runs on it. It borrows from 70s and 80s audio gear: dark, warm panels, amber and teal lamps, and monospace labels.

Color

Warm darks for surfaces, a cream ink, and three colors that each have one job: amber for the one thing to act on, teal for what is live, red for what went wrong.

Type

Three families. One for headings, one for reading, one for numbers and labels.

Components

The same parts every project gets. These are the real ones, not pictures of them.

Light and dark

Every color is a named token with a dark and a light value, so a whole product changes theme in one switch. Try it on this page.

The moving background

The lines behind every page are drawn on one canvas. They drift like tape in the wind, go calm under text and bend around the pointer. Move over the panel, or change the settings.