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◆Origin design system · Volume II

Livery.

One look, every app, any client. This page is rendered by the system it documents — if it looks wrong here, the system is wrong.

1 · hard-left always 2 · a label above every headline 3 · zero radius 4 · hairlines, never shadows 5 · stone breathes

◆01 · Palette

Three colors, one voice, one signal.

Stone is the page. Ink is the words — and the "act here" surface. Magenta is the voice of the system. Lime exists for exactly one job.

stone
#E8E2D8
the page · ~80%
ink
#111110
type + rules · islands & heroes
magenta
#FF2E93
the voice — small, always
lime
#84CC16
ready/pass dots ONLY
surface
#EDE8DE
grouped blocks · hover darkening
field
#F4F1EA
form fills — on stone and on ink
magenta-press
#E62984
hover on magenta fills
label
ink @ 62%
mono labels · AA 4.7:1

◆02 · The magenta law

It speaks only when something matters now.

Five lawful voices. Semantic magenta is uncapped but always small — text, dots, borders, tints ≤8%. Decorative flourish: one moment per layout. Magenta never fills anything larger than a button. No red, ever.

the accent momentthe tick, the ◆, the serif period.
the active placeyou are here
the failing thing2 pages failed — open to retry
the destructive actDelete · always behind a confirm
the live thinggenerating…

◆03 · Type

Three families, nine roles.

Display black.

display · inter 900 · −0.04em · lh 0.95

Headline extrabold.

headline · inter 800 · −0.035em · lh 1.05

Subhead

subhead · inter 800 · −0.02em

Row title — what lists are made of

row-title · inter 600 · −0.01em

Body — plain Inter at a comfortable measure, muted when secondary, never gray-on-gray below AA.

body · inter 400 · leading relaxed

The flourish — their voice, pull-quotes, numerals, the wink.

serif · instrument serif italic 400

Mono label — the entry point to every block

mono-label · jetbrains 500 · 0.7rem · +0.16em · uppercase

Mono detail — subsection labels, metadata

mono-detail · 0.65rem · +0.12em

◆04 · The ink island

Dark ground means act here.

Every intake is an ink island: the dot rolls off the corner, clipped. Fields stay light. One magenta submit — the layout's accent moment. The ◆ kicker is required.

◆Grow the library

Hints on ink sit at stone 45%.

◆05 · Chapters & rows

The tick marks a chapter; the hover answers back.

The 44px magenta tick + ◆ kicker is chapter-level ONLY — subsections use quiet detail labels. Every list row darkens, the title goes magenta, the arrow slides. Hover these:

Status glyphs

ready needs a look must fix passes warning blocking

◆06 · Tiles & controls

Selection is the hover made permanent.

A selected tile keeps the darker ground, magenta frame, magenta title — never a dark fill. Spend controls carry their price at the moment of choice.

◆ Mode

Single page

one page, one keyword

Mode

Location pages

one service × many cities

Mode

Ad landing

message-matched to one ad

Buttons

Fields

Fields focus magenta — the one lawful magenta focus.

◆07 · Icons

Ink body, one magenta detail.

44×44 grid, stroke 2, rounded, upright. Exactly one meaningful accent per icon. Silhouettes must read monochrome at 14px — shown big and small below. Full commission: 36 more in livery-icon-brief.md.

readiness
brand-voice
brand-rules
competitors
voice-of-customer
projects
site-export