DESIGN.md · alpha
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.
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.
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 }
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.