flowmanceCapita X Design System
Capita X is a calm, trustworthy accounting and finance site. It reads like a modern firm's brochure: a white page, heavy but friendly BDO Grotesk headlines at weight 600, deep pine-green bands that carry the serious parts (services, FAQ), and small flashes of signal green on icons and toggles. Almost everything is set in one weight (600), so the hierarchy comes from size and from the green bands, not from contrast in weight.
Three signatures make it recognisable:
- Diagonal cuts. The hero photo ends in a white angled wedge on the lower right, and the pine services band is sliced by steep diagonals, so the white service cards appear to sit on a torn green slab. The page never uses rounded section corners; it uses angles.
- Pine pill + arrow. Main actions are 120px-radius pills in primary #02413E (or a white 2px outline on dark), label type, with a thin → after the label: Meet the Team →, Learn More →, Book a Consultation →.
- Mint icon circles. Feature and service icons are thin signal-green (#079C41) line icons centred in about 85px pale mint (#F6F9F5) circles, placed above a title-md heading.
Capita X is a light design with dark-green bands, not a dark theme.
Colors
Surfaces
#FFFFFFPage background
#FAFAF7Warm off-white: the contact band and testimonial cards (--gray-green)
#F6F9F5Pale mint circles behind icons
#FFFFFFInputs: white with a 1px light-grey border
#E1E1E1With field: Inputs: white with a 1px light-grey border
#02413EServices band and FAQ panel: white text on pine
Ink
#FFFFFFText on primary
#000000Headlines, labels, links (--gainsboro is set to black)
#000000Body text is full black at weight 600, same as ink
#FFFFFFText on accent
#FFFFFFText on inverse-canvas
#FFFFFFHero title, nav and outline buttons over the photo
Action
#02413EFilled pill buttons, metric numbers, footer titles (--green-dark)
#02413E#079C41Line icons, FAQ toggle circles, the logo arrow, footer link hover (--green)
Lines & effects
#E2E2E21px rules: the vertical divider in the about split, the rule under it, footer rules
#02413E · 40%Pine tint laid over photos (linear-gradient, 3 uses)
#000000 · 40%Extra darkening under the hero photo
Typography
BDO Grotesk · display-hero · shown in Inter (fallback)
The quick brown fox jumpsHero title Let's grow your business together. 76px · 600 · 1.1
BDO Grotesk · headline-lg · shown in Inter (fallback)
The quick brown fox jumpsAbout headline Trusted experts in accountancy services. 43px · 600 · 1.2
BDO Grotesk · title-lg · shown in Inter (fallback)
The quick brown fox jumpsBlog card titles. 22px · 600 · 1.4
BDO Grotesk · body-lg · shown in Inter (fallback)
The quick brown fox jumpsHero lead and about lead. 21px · 600 · 1.4
BDO Grotesk · label-nav · shown in Inter (fallback)
The quick brown fox jumpsNav links and footer links (1.1rem). 17.6px · 600 · 1.14
BDO Grotesk · eyebrow · shown in Inter (fallback)
The quick brown fox jumpsFooter column titles in primary. 14px · 600 · 1.43
Spacing & shape
| Purpose | Value |
|---|---|
| Container | max 1200px, centred (.container) |
| Section rhythm | 100px top and bottom (.section), 60px from ≤991px; the info section's 150px top drops to 120px at ≤479px; the news section closes with 50px; the footer is 20px top, 30px bottom |
| Breakpoints | 991px, 767px and 479px (Webflow defaults), plus min-width steps at 1440px and 1920px |
Spacing scale
| Token | Value | Preview |
|---|---|---|
xs | 5px | |
sm | 10px | |
md | 15px | |
lg | 20px | |
xl | 25px | |
2xl | 50px | |
3xl | 80px |
Layout spacing
| Token | Value | Preview |
|---|---|---|
column-gap | 20px | |
section-bottom-short | 50px | |
gutter | 72px | |
section | 100px |
Border radius
Surfaces
How the surfaces stack, from the page background up. Hex codes and roles are in Colors above.
Motion
| Fade-up on scroll | opacity 0 → 1 and translate → 0, 1000ms outQuart |
| Parallax drift | y 80 / 50 / 30 / −50px moves, 500ms, while scrolling in view |
| Side entrances | x ±80px → 0, 500ms; hero slides x 0%, 600ms outExpo |
| Button arrow nudge | x 0 → 3px, 500ms outQuint on hover |
| Icon pop | scale 1 → 1.1, 100ms ease on hover |
| Dropdown chevron | Rotate, 400ms swingTo |
| Accordion | Height, 300ms ease (also 400ms outCubic) |
| Nav hide/show | On page scroll up and down |
| Link and nav hover | Opacity, 300ms |
| Button colour | background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.645, 0.045, 0.355, 1) |
Do’s and don’ts
- Use primary #02413E pills with on-primary #FFFFFF text and a → for every main action.
- Put serious blocks (services, FAQ) on inverse-canvas #02413E with white text, and keep the rest on #FFFFFF.
- Set body copy in black (#000000) at weight 600, 17px, line height 1.4.
- Place every feature icon as a #079C41 line icon inside a #F6F9F5 circle.
- Use diagonal cuts to end photo and pine areas instead of rounded corners.
- Tint photos that sit behind text with the #02413E 40% scrim.
- Put white text on accent #079C41 at small sizes; it only reaches about 3.6:1. Keep green for icons and round toggles.
- Add drop shadows to cards; only the blog image hover and dropdown have shadows.
- Use a second typeface or mix weights; stay with BDO Grotesk 600.
- Round sections or cards; only pills, inputs (30px), circles and blog images (7px) are rounded.
- Introduce grey paragraph text or a new brand colour.
- Animate longer than 1000ms or add bounce, apart from the 400ms swingTo chevron.
Example prompt
Any page in the Capita X 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/capita.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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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- 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