Claude
Design system

DESIGN.md · alpha

A warm-canvas editorial interface

Cream, coral and dark navy — the trinity behind claude.com. A tinted canvas instead of cool white, serif display type at regular weight, and real product chrome shown rather than illustrated.

#faf9f5  canvas #cc785c  coral #181715  navy

The token system

Three surface modes alternate band by band. The cream-to-dark contrast is the page’s pacing mechanism — never two the same in a row.

canvas#faf9f5
surface-card#efe9de
primary#cc785c
primary-active#a9583e
surface-dark#181715
ink#141413
tokens.css
 1 /* warm, deliberately not cool white */
 2 :root {
 3   --canvas:        #faf9f5;
 4   --surface-card:  #efe9de;
 5   --surface-dark:  #181715;
 6   --primary:       #cc785c;
 7   --ink:           #141413;
 8   /* weight 400. never 700. */
 9   --display-xl:    64px/1.05;
10   --display-xl-ls: -1.5px;
11   --section:       96px;
12 }
73 DESIGN.md files · MIT tokens resolved
Cream canvasThe default body floor
Light cream cardsFeature and content surfaces
Dark navyCode, terminals, the footer
Claude
awesome-design-md

Drop it in. Ship the whole look.

One Markdown file in your project root, and a coding agent has the palette, the type ramp, the radius hierarchy and the pacing rules — before it writes a line of markup.

Back to the start github.com/VoltAgent/awesome-design-md
Style exercise — not official Anthropic material DESIGN.md documents publicly visible CSS values and is provided as is. Display type substitutes EB Garamond for the licensed Copernicus face.