flowmanceMalaga Design System
Malaga is a bold, editorial agency template on a warm stone-grey canvas. Black Inter Tight at poster sizes does almost all the work: a staggered three-line hero wordmark, a 288px "Recent Work" that runs off both edges, and short two-tone leads. Black blocks (a fixed MENU square, pill buttons, testimonial cards) are the only other surfaces, and colour arrives only through soft pastel 3D renders in the work grid.
Four signatures make it recognisable:
- The staggered hero wordmark. "Malaga©" / "Digital" / "Agency" on three lines at 130px, each line indented further right, with a small 20px-rounded portrait tile in front of the first line, a superscript ©, and a two-tone lead tucked beside "Digital".
- The black MENU square. A fixed 100×100px black square, 10px from the top-right corner, with "MENU" in stone-coloured uppercase. The "Málaga" logo sits fixed top-left and social icons stack vertically bottom-left.
- Stone canvas, black inverse blocks. The page is #C2BEB2; testimonial cards, buttons and the menu are solid black with stone or white text.
- Edge-to-edge giant type. "Recent Work" is set at 20vw (288px at 1440) and scrolls sideways past the viewport before the project grid.
Malaga is a single light-stone theme; it has no dark mode.
Colors
Surfaces
#C2BEB2Page background, every section
#E6E6E6The light hero portrait tile; image placeholders
#FFFFFFFull-screen menu overlay
#000000Testimonial cards, the "who we are" marquee pill, the cart circle
Ink
#FFFFFFText on primary
#C2BEB2Stone text on black: the MENU square, form submit, .button
#000000Headlines, labels, links, icons
#000000Body text is full black (paragraphs have no opacity)
#000000 · 50%The faded second half of two-tone leads, client roles
#000000 · 60%Footer and grey links at rest
#252629Menu overlay links
#C2BEB2Text on inverse-canvas
#FFFFFFAction
#000000Main pill buttons ("Meet the team", "View on Webflow")
#616161The .button hover fill
Lines & effects
#0000002px tag borders, 1px input underlines, 3px menu lines
Typography
Inter Tight · display-work
The quick brown fox jumps"Recent Work" (20vw). 288px · 600 · 1.1
Inter Tight · headline-lg
The quick brown fox jumpsSection titles: "About Málaga". 70px · 600 · 1.1
Inter Tight · title-lg
The quick brown fox jumpsBlog titles. 27px · 600 · 1.3
Inter Tight · body-lead
The quick brown fox jumpsTwo-tone leads and small centred section heads ("Genuine experiences, concrete results."). 25px · 600 · 1.4
Inter Tight · label
The quick brown fox jumpsButtons, MENU, small top titles. 18px · 600 · 1.1
Inter Tight · eyebrow
The quick brown fox jumps"who we are" in the marquee pill. 15px · 700 · 1
Spacing & shape
| Purpose | Value |
|---|---|
| Container | max 1200px (1000px and 940px for narrower blocks), centred; sections pad 5% on the sides (72px at 1440) |
| Section rhythm | 110px top and bottom, 80px at ≤991px and 60px at ≤479px; video sections 120px |
| Breakpoints | 991px, 767px and 479px (desktop-first), plus min-width steps at 768 and 1440px |
Spacing scale
| Token | Value | Preview |
|---|---|---|
xs | 10px | |
sm | 15px | |
md | 20px | |
lg | 30px | |
xl | 40px | |
2xl | 70px | |
3xl | 100px |
Layout spacing
| Token | Value | Preview |
|---|---|---|
footer-bottom | 40px | |
hero-y | 60px | |
gutter | 72px | |
footer-top | 80px | |
section | 110px | |
section-video | 120px |
Border radius
Surfaces
How the surfaces stack, from the page background up. Hex codes and roles are in Colors above.
Motion
| Fade-up | y 20px → 0 with opacity 0 → 1, 500ms outExpo |
| Slow fade | opacity 0 → 1, 1000ms outQuart; positions settle x/y → 0px over 1000ms outQuart |
| Heading wipe | A black overlay block moves from translateX(−100%) across the heading; size changes 400ms outCubic |
| Scroll parallax | Elements move y ±50px and ±100px while in view; photos sit at scale(1.2) |
| Mouse parallax | Hero items drift ±5px on x and y, 500ms |
| Button roll | Label out, arrow in, 300ms ease |
| Hover fills | transition: all .3s on buttons, tags and blog titles |
| Marquees | "who we are" pill and the giant "Recent Work" run sideways continuously or with scroll |
Do’s and don’ts
- Keep the whole page on stone #C2BEB2 with black #000000 type in Inter Tight 600.
- Set display lines at 130px and larger, one word per line, staggered to the right.
- Use black inverse blocks for emphasis: the 100px MENU square, card-testimonial (20px radius) and pill buttons (40px radius).
- Write leads two-tone, the second half at 50% black (ink-subtle), at 25px / 600.
- Keep images sharp-cornered and pastel; let colour come only from them.
- Use 2px black outlines for tags and a single 1px underline for inputs.
- Use pure white as a page background; white is only the menu overlay.
- Add an accent colour, gradients on UI, or shadows.
- Use ink-subtle (50% black, about 3.5:1 on stone) for text under 19px; keep it to 25px leads and 18px+ meta.
- Use grey text on black blocks; it is stone #C2BEB2 or white. On the #616161 hover the stone label is only 3.3:1, so keep button labels at 18px / 600.
- Round images, or mix radii outside 20 / 30 / 40 / 50px and circles.
- Run animations longer than 1s or use bouncy easing.
Example prompt
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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/malaga.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