flowmanceDusk Design System
Dusk is a dark, all-caps studio site. Everything is uppercase Satoshi on a soft charcoal #111111, framed by a thin fixed rail on the left. The big titles run at 10vw in Satoshi Bold, and most of them swap a single word for a hand-written Story Script word at 50% white (OUR work, PREMIUM services, Launch Fast.); the hero title is all Satoshi. Colour only comes from floating 3D renders and warm studio portraits.
Four signatures make it recognisable:
- Bold sans plus one script word. Most big headings (not the hero) mix Satoshi with one Story Script word set at half opacity, often on its own line: PROVIDING AN ARRAY OF / premium SERVICES.
- The left rail. A fixed 90px column, full height, with a 1px white-20% right border and a 3-line vertical hamburger in the middle. A 1px white line grows down its edge while the page loads.
- Uppercase everything. The body is set text-transform: uppercase, so paragraphs, links, emails (INFO@DUSK.COM) and buttons are all caps.
- Floating work. Project cards (15px corners) are scattered across a 5-column grid and slide past a sticky OUR work title, some renders breaking out of their frames.
Dusk is a dark-only design.
Colors
Surfaces
#111111Page, rail and menu background (--black-3)
#000000The 130px "View Project" cursor circle
#222222Service cards, the CTA band, contact inputs (--black-2)
#444444The text panel of the featured blog row (--dark-slate-grey)
#222222Contact inputs (4px radius)
Ink
#111111Text on primary
#FFFFFFTitles, buttons on hover, project names
#FFFFFF · 80%Header and hero meta text (DIGITAL EXPERIENCE DESIGN AGENCY, ©2024)
#FFFFFF · 60%Paragraphs (p is #FFFFFF99), service text, footer links
#FFFFFF · 70%Project categories, social links
#FFFFFF · 50%The Story Script word in the big titles (opacity 0.5)
#FFFFFFAction
#FFFFFFThe white button
#111111Button hover: it turns charcoal with white text
Lines & effects
#FFFFFF · 20%Rail border, menu divider, newsletter underline, blog dividers
#FFFFFF · 40%The 1px divider inside blog content (value not in the extracted data)
Typography
Satoshi · display-hero
The quick brown fox jumpsDIGITAL CREATIVE STDUIO, OUR (.title-1.vw). 144px · 700 · 1.1
Story Script · headline-script
The quick brown fox jumpspremium, performance inside 60px titles. 74px · 400 · 0.8
Satoshi · title-lg
The quick brown fox jumpsSection leads (GREAT COMPANIES USE DUSK TO POWER THEIR BUSINESS FORWARD.). 28px · 700 · 1.3
Satoshi · body-lg
The quick brown fox jumpsParagraphs (60%), footer links. 18px · 500 · 1.44
Satoshi · label
The quick brown fox jumpsButtons, default text. 14px · 700 · 1.43
Spacing & shape
| Purpose | Value |
|---|---|
| Container | max 1200px, centred |
| Breakpoints | 991px, 767px and 479px, plus a 1440px+ tweak |
Spacing scale
| Token | Value | Preview |
|---|---|---|
xs | 15px | |
sm | 20px | |
md | 30px | |
lg | 40px | |
xl | 80px | |
2xl | 100px |
Layout spacing
| Token | Value | Preview |
|---|---|---|
column-gap | 20px | |
rail | 90px | |
section | 120px | |
block | 150px |
Border radius
Surfaces
How the surfaces stack, from the page background up. Hex codes and roles are in Colors above.
Motion
| Page loader | A 1px white line grows height 0 → 100% along the rail, 500ms; the loader fades out in 300ms |
| Scroll reveal | opacity 0 → 1 and a move to x 0, y 0, 1000ms outQuart, from an offset (about y 100px, x ±100px or scale 0.75) |
| Project hover | Cursor circle scales in from 0 (about 1000ms); title and category rise y 10px → 0 and the shade fades in, 300ms ease |
| Image parallax | Portraits and photos drift vertically (about ±40–100px) while scrolling through view |
| Menu open | Panel fades in 300ms; links slide x 10% → 0% and fade in, 300ms ease; the menu icon animates (about 600ms) |
| Link underline | Width 0 → 100%, 500ms; back to 0 in about 300ms |
| Rotating mark | A small badge rotates slowly on a loop (about 8s) |
| Button and links | Colour change 200–300ms |
Do’s and don’ts
- Set all text uppercase in Satoshi, 500 for paragraphs and 700 for titles and buttons.
- Give big section titles one Story Script word at 50% opacity (#FFFFFF80); keep the hero all Satoshi.
- Keep the page on #111111 with #222222 cards (10px radius) and a fixed 90px left rail with a 1px #FFFFFF33 border.
- Use the white button (#FFFFFF, #111111 text, 3px radius, padding 15px 20px) that turns #111111 on hover.
- Set paragraphs at 60% white and meta text at 80% white.
- Let 3D renders float over titles and break out of their frames in the work area.
- Add an accent colour; the reds and blues in the Webflow variables are not part of this page.
- Use pure #000000 for backgrounds or add drop shadows.
- Put Story Script in paragraphs, labels or buttons, or use more than one script word per title.
- Use the 50% ink-faint tone below 60px.
- Round buttons into pills; they stay at 3px.
- Use lowercase body text; the system depends on all caps.
Example prompt
Any page in the Dusk 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/dusk.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.
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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