Foundations
The tokens everything else is built on
Color, type, and spacing — the authoritative source of truth, current as of the last time Design, Engineering, and Brand were all in the same room about it.
Color
Fourteen named grays and six functional colors. The names carry more conviction than the differences between the hex values.
| Swatch | Name | Token | Value | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Executive Ink | --color-ink-900 | #16181d | Primary text. Undisputed. | |
| Boardroom | --color-ink-700 | #3c4048 | Renamed from "Slate 700" during last year's rebrand. The hex value did not change. | |
| Quiet Authority | --color-ink-500 | #6b7078 | Secondary text, captions. | |
| Provenance Amber | --color-accent | #a8631f | Primary accent. Not, we have been told, a reference to the domain. | |
| Cascade Teal | --color-teal | #2c6e6b | Links, secondary actions. | |
| Candor Red | --color-danger | #b3432f | Errors. The one place in the system where we say what happened directly. | |
| Consensus Green | --color-success | #3f7a4f | Success states, and the color of the "approved" stamp in Governance. |
Typography
One typeface, seven weights of confidence.
Display / 48Design at the speed of trust
Heading 1 / 32One source of truth
Heading 2 / 24Aligned stakeholder experience
Body / 16This is body copy. It is used for most things, including the parts of this sentence that are load-bearing.
Small / 14Caption text, footnotes, and disclaimers that were requested by Legal.
Spacing
An 8-point scale, mostly. Two teams round to the nearest 5 instead, for reasons no longer documented anywhere Governance can locate.
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space-28px
space-312px
space-416px
space-524px
space-632px
space-748px
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Platform coverage
Web
Full parity. This is the reference implementation.
iOS
Coming eventually. Last updated: two annual planning cycles ago.
Android
Coming eventually. Tracked in the same ticket as iOS, opened by a PM who has since changed teams.