flowmanceBureaus Light Design System
Bureaus Light is a bright, poster-like studio site set entirely in capitals. A white page carries black, very wide Unbounded headlines, Inter Tight paragraphs and thin 2px black outline pills. The interface is black and white; colour comes from glossy 3D renders in the work grid and from three pastel testimonial cards. The demo brand is spelled Bureaū with a macron over the U.
Four signatures make it recognisable:
- Everything uppercase. body sets text-transform: uppercase, so nav, headlines, paragraphs, buttons and captions are all capitals. Wide Unbounded for display and UI, narrower Inter Tight for reading text.
- Outline pills and black chips. Calls to action are 2px black outline pills (50px radius) that fill black on hover. The content sections (about, testimonials and others) open with a small black pill tag (ABOUT US, TESTIMONIALS) in white 13px Unbounded.
- Outlined giant numbers. The stats row uses Inter Tight 170px numerals drawn as black outlines only (130, 16, 10), with a small label beneath.
- Edge-bleeding work grid. Square-cornered 3D renders in a 3-column grid that is 120% of the container wide, with only 10px gaps, so tiles run off both sides of the screen and rows sit offset from each other.
Bureaus Light is a light-only design (the cart drawer is the one black panel).
Colors
Surfaces
#FFFFFFPage, nav (transparent over white), footer, inputs
#F9F9F7The warm off-white testimonials band (.section.gray)
#FFFFFF#000000Cart drawer and tag chips
Ink
#FFFFFFText on primary
#000000Headlines, nav, buttons, borders
#000000 · 90%Paragraphs: p has opacity: .9
#000000 · 63%.smaller-text meta (15px, weight 400)
#000000#FFFFFF#FFFFFFText on inverse-canvas
Action
#000000Filled state: the outline pill on hover, the form submit, black section tags
#DFA5A4Testimonial slide 1 (--background-1, dusty pink)
#A7DCE1Testimonial slide 2 (--background-2)
#A8AEDATestimonial slide 3 (--background-3)
Lines & effects
#3B3B3B1px borders of the logo grid cells
#0000002px outline buttons, category tags, inputs, link underlines
#222222 · 40%Dark overlay where white titles sit on work images
#FFFFFF · 20%Cart drawer border and the cart footer rule
Typography
Unbounded · display-marquee
The quick brown fox jumps.text-rotator lines in the scrolling marquee band (8 copies). 120px · 400 · 1.0
Unbounded · headline-lg
The quick brown fox jumpsProject names on work tiles (Dreamy Visions), white; also h1. 46px · 500 · 1.4
Unbounded · title-lg
The quick brown fox jumpsBlog card titles. 25px · 500 · 1.4
Inter Tight · body-lg
The quick brown fox jumpsHero lead. 21px · 500 · 1.4
Inter Tight · label-link
The quick brown fox jumps.link-underline text links. 16px · 600 · 1.3
Unbounded · eyebrow
The quick brown fox jumpsWhite text in black section tags. 13px · 500 · 1.1
Spacing & shape
| Purpose | Value |
|---|---|
| Container | .container max 1200px, centred, flex column |
| Section rhythm | .section is 150px top and bottom, measured down to 80px at ≤991 and 50px at ≤767 and ≤479 |
| Breakpoints | 991px, 767px and 479px (max-width), plus min-width 768px and 1280px steps |
Spacing scale
| Token | Value | Preview |
|---|---|---|
xs | 10px | |
sm | 20px | |
md | 30px | |
lg | 40px | |
xl | 50px | |
2xl | 60px |
Layout spacing
| Token | Value | Preview |
|---|---|---|
gutter | 72px | |
section-band | 100px | |
nav-height | 110px | |
section-gray-top | 140px | |
section | 150px |
Border radius
Surfaces
How the surfaces stack, from the page background up. Hex codes and roles are in Colors above.
Motion
| Scroll fade-in | opacity 0 → 1, 1000ms outQuart |
| Slide-in | y ±30px → 0 or x ±30px → 0 with opacity, 500ms |
| Pop-in | scale 0 → 1, 500ms |
| Line-by-line text reveal | Lines start at opacity 0.24 and go to 1 while scrolling in view |
| Button fill | .button-line-first height 0 → 100%, 500ms; background-color 300ms ease |
| Text roll | Label y 0% → −100% in 400ms inOutCubic, back to 0% in 300ms |
| Image hover | scale 1 → 1.2, 500ms outQuint; press scale 0.95, 300ms outSine |
| Filter hover | filter change on images, 300ms ease |
| Icon rotate | Rotation, 400ms ease |
| Base transitions | all .2s on pills, .3s on the submit and blog titles, background-color 0.1s, color 0.1s on small links |
Do’s and don’ts
- Set every string in uppercase: Unbounded for headings and UI, Inter Tight for paragraphs.
- Use the 2px black outline pill (50px radius, 48px tall) for actions, filling #000000 on hover.
- Open each section with a black pill tag (#000000, white 13px Unbounded, 30px radius).
- Keep the page #FFFFFF with #000000 ink; use #F9F9F7 only for the testimonials band.
- Let the work grid bleed off the screen: 3 columns, 10px gaps, square corners.
- Use the pastels #DFA5A4, #A7DCE1 and #A8AEDA only as whole testimonial card backgrounds.
- Draw big stats as outlined Inter Tight 170px numerals.
- Add shadows, gradients on UI, or a coloured button.
- Use sentence case or a third typeface (Oswald is loaded but not part of the look).
- Round work tiles or blog images; only pills, tags, inputs and testimonial parts are rounded.
- Use #E6C98F (declared but unused) or put pastels behind text elsewhere.
- Use ink-subtle (black at 63%) for anything but 15px+ meta text.
- Run motion longer than 500ms, except the 1000ms opacity fade.
Example prompt
Any page in the Bureaus Light style
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What it is
The whole design system in one markdown file, written for AI: every color, type style, spacing value, component and motion rule, plus do's, don'ts and a ready prompt.
Best for
Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor and v0, or any other AI tool that builds pages or code.
How to use it
- Put
DESIGN.mdin your project and mention it in your request, or save it as.cursor/rules/bureaus.mdc - For the rule file, start it with a front-matter block that sets
alwaysApply: true, so every chat uses it - Ask: “Build a pricing page using DESIGN.md.” Cursor follows the colors, fonts, spacing and rules
- Put
DESIGN.mdin the project root - Add one line to
CLAUDE.md: “Follow DESIGN.md for all UI.” - Ask for any page or component; Claude reads the file first
- Attach
DESIGN.mdto the chat (or paste it in) - Ask: “Build a landing page in this design system.”
- Keep the file in the chat or project knowledge, so follow-up pages stay on style
What it is
Every token as data, in the W3C Design Tokens format: colors with their roles, type styles, radius, spacing, and component tokens that point at them.
Best for
Figma (Tokens Studio), Style Dictionary and other design-token tools, and build scripts.
How to use it
- In Figma, open Tokens Studio, choose Import, and pick
tokens.json - Or point Style Dictionary’s
sourceat it to generate tokens for any platform - In code, import it like any JSON file
What it is
A Tailwind CSS v4 theme: every color, font, type style, radius and spacing value becomes a Tailwind utility, like bg-canvas, text-headline-lg or rounded-md.
Best for
Tailwind v4 projects, and AI builders that write Tailwind (v0, Lovable, Bolt).
How to use it
- Save
theme.cssnext to your main CSS file - Import it after Tailwind:
@import "tailwindcss"; @import "./theme.css"; - Use the classes:
bg-canvas text-ink rounded-md p-lg
What it is
The same tokens as plain CSS variables on :root. Component values point at the color variables, so changing one color updates everything that uses it.
Best for
Any website: plain CSS, Webflow custom code, Framer, WordPress.
How to use it
- Add it to your stylesheet, or in Webflow paste it into Site settings → Custom code inside a
<style>tag - Use the variables anywhere:
color: var(--color-ink) - Change a token once and every place that uses it follows