Cuox Design System
Cuox (the demo brand on the live site is written Cūox) is a bright, confident studio site. It feels like a white poster with black type: huge Inter Tight 700 headlines centred in white space, warm natural-light office photos in 25px-rounded frames, small outlined uppercase pills that label most sections, and one heavy black slab for the testimonial. The UI is black, white and grey only.
Four signatures make it recognisable:
- Solid-outline-solid hero. Three centred words at 160px weight 700, line height 0.9: Cūox solid black, Digital as an outline (white fill with a 1px black text-shadow on all four sides), Studio solid black. A hand-drawn paper-plane scribble (140px) sits bottom-left and a small mouse outline bottom-centre.
- Pill eyebrows. Most sections open with an outlined pill (OUR WORK, FUN FACTS, DIGITAL AGENCY): 2px #E1E1E1 border, 40px radius, 13px weight 700 uppercase, then the headline-lg title right under it. The pill is centred over centred titles and left-aligned in the split CTA row; Who we are has none.
- Two-tone leads. Lead paragraphs start in #222222 and switch mid-sentence to the same colour at opacity 0.4: In the realm of Webflow templates, / Cūox takes the lead with designs favored by users.
- Staggered project grid. Three columns of rounded project images with the title and an outlined tag pill centred below; the middle column sits higher than the outer two.
Cuox is a light-only design.
Colors
Surfaces
#FFFFFFPage background (the variable is oddly named --black)
#FAFAFAThe wipe panel that slides off headings on reveal; placeholder fill behind images (--black-2)
#777777Form placeholders
#000000The testimonial slab and the round UP button
Ink
#383838Text on primary
#000000Headlines, nav icons, the logo, metric numbers
#222222The dark half of two-tone leads; the faded half is this colour at opacity 0.4
#333333Uppercase line links
#4D4D4D · 90%Body paragraphs and metric labels (the base p colour)
#000000 · 70%Text inside the section label pills and project tags
#8F8F8FRotated menu numbers, blockquotes, footer links (--grey)
#FFFFFFText on inverse-canvas
#FFFFFFAction
#DFDFDFThe only filled button: Send Message on the contact page
#3CCF91Declared as --medium-aquamarine; appears once as a small fill
Lines & effects
#E1E1E12px outlines on pills and tags
#555555The 2px line that slides under line links on hover
Typography
Inter Tight · display-hero
The quick brown fox jumpsThe three-word hero stack. 160px · 700 · 0.9
Inter Tight · headline-lg
The quick brown fox jumpsSection titles: Selected work, Enhance your brand with a stellar website., Latest post. 50px · 700 · 1.1
Inter Tight · title-lg
The quick brown fox jumpsBlog card titles. 28px · 600 · 1.3
Inter Tight · body-xl
The quick brown fox jumpsTwo-tone lead paragraphs. 26px · 600 · 1.4
Inter Tight · label-name
The quick brown fox jumpsTestimonial name DEXTER NGUYEN. 16px · 600 · 1.56
Inter Tight · eyebrow
The quick brown fox jumpsSection label pills and project tags (LOGO, USER INTERFACE). 13px · 700 · 1.54
Spacing & shape
| Purpose | Value |
|---|---|
| Container | max 1200px, centred |
| Breakpoints | 991px, 767px and 479px, plus min-width: 768px and min-width: 1440px steps |
Spacing scale
| Token | Value | Preview |
|---|---|---|
hair | 4px | |
xs | 12px | |
sm | 16px | |
md | 30px | |
lg | 40px | |
xl | 50px | |
2xl | 80px |
Layout spacing
| Token | Value | Preview |
|---|---|---|
nav-pad | 35px | |
section | 100px | |
hero-top | 160px | |
hero-bottom | 200px |
Border radius
Surfaces
How the surfaces stack, from the page background up. Hex codes and roles are in Colors above.
Motion
| Heading wipe | A #FAFAFA panel covering each heading slides away (translate(-100%)), revealing the text on scroll into view |
| Fade in | opacity 0 → 1, 1000ms outQuart |
| Text roll (links, menu) | Label y 0% → −100% while a copy comes from 100% → 0%, 300ms ease or 400ms inOutCubic, inside a 24px (links) or 90px (menu) mask |
| Line wipe | The 2px line grows across, 300–400ms ease / outCubic |
| Image hover | scale 1 → 1.1, 100ms ease, and back |
| Parallax | Images drift y ±25px and y ±100px while scrolling in view |
| Scroll direction | Paired scroll-down / scroll-up triggers move elements y −100% and back |
| Hamburger | Lines rotate 200–400ms ease into a cross |
| Hover transitions | all 0.3s on blog titles and links |
Do’s and don’ts
- Keep the page canvas #FFFFFF with ink #000000 headlines in Inter Tight 700.
- Open sections with the outlined pill (2px #E1E1E1, 40px radius, 13px 700 uppercase) and a centred headline-lg title.
- Split lead paragraphs into #222222 and #222222 at opacity 0.4.
- Frame photos with a 25px radius and keep them in natural colour.
- Use the uppercase line link (label, #333333) as the main call to action.
- Use one black inverse-canvas slab per page at most, for the testimonial.
- Add a brand colour to buttons or text; the UI stays black, white and grey.
- Use black or dark borders on pills; outlines are #E1E1E1.
- Put ink-subtle #8F8F8F on small text: it is only about 3.2:1 on white. Keep it for 15px+ menu numbers, footer links and 30px blockquotes.
- Add drop shadows or blur to cards or the UP button.
- Fill the outline word; the hero keeps exactly one outline word between two solid ones.
- Animate longer than 500ms except the 1000ms fade, or use bounce easing.
Example prompt
Any page in the Cuox 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/cuox.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






