flowmanceOrchi Design System
Orchi is a tidy, corporate architecture-studio site from the classic Webflow era. A fixed 300px sidebar on the left carries the logo, the menu and social icons over a blue-tinted sky-and-building photo with a fine grid pattern; the content scrolls in the remaining width. Content alternates white, #F1F1F1 and #FAFAFA bands, section headings are centred Poppins 600, and Playfair Display adds a classical serif touch to feature titles, tabs, dates and testimonials. Royal blue #0066B3 runs through the buttons, icons and photo gradients.
Four signatures make it recognisable:
- The blue photo sidebar. 300px wide, fixed full height, a blue architectural photo (background-attachment: fixed) under a fine grid pattern, a 1px white-20% right edge, white Orchi logo, five white links and four 35px outlined round social icons at the bottom. The active link has a 2px blue line on its left.
- Blue buttons that turn green. Buttons are #0066B3 with a 6px radius and a soft 0 10px 30px 20% black shadow; on hover they turn #47B475 and the shadow disappears (400ms).
- Blue-washed project photos. Project images fade into solid #0066B3 at the bottom (linear-gradient(to top, #0066B3, transparent 45%)), so a row of cards shares one blue base line.
- Serif accents. Playfair Display sets the blue feature titles (Concept & Vision), the boxed filter tabs, project dates and testimonial quotes, against Poppins everywhere else.
Orchi is a light-only design with a dark #161616 footer.
Colors
Surfaces
#FFFFFFMain content background, project and journal cards, tabs
#FAFAFATestimonial band (grey-lighter), tab content area
#F1F1F1Studio features band and quote band (section gray)
#161616Footer and footer titles
#FFFFFF#999999Ink
#FFFFFFText on primary
#FFFFFF#333333Section headings, base text, input text
#212121Project titles
#A7A7A7Paragraphs (p is 15px weight 300 in #A7A7A7) and testimonial quotes
#919191Project dates, the italic spam note
#818181Inactive filter tabs
#FFFFFF#FFFFFFText on inverse-canvas
Action
#0066B3Buttons, slider arrows, subscribe button, active tab, feature titles, line icons, photo gradients, footer title rules (--royal-blue)
#47B475Button and submit hover (--medium-sea-green)
#47B475The fixed Top Navigation Version demo switch, top right
Lines & effects
#E1E1E1Tab borders, logo box border, input borders
#CFCFCFTab hover underline (inset 1px)
#FFFFFF · 20%Right edge of the sidebar
#222222 · 40%Overlay on the video and lightbox images
#DDDDDDFooter paragraphs
#FFFFFF · 50%Copyright links (white on hover)
#FFFFFF · 12%Footer divider
Typography
Poppins · display-hero
The quick brown fox jumpsHero Architecture ebbs away to whence it came. 60px · 500 · 1.17
Poppins · headline-lg
The quick brown fox jumpsCentred section titles We are a creative architecture studio. 32px · 600 · 1.38
Poppins · title-lg
The quick brown fox jumpsProject titles Twin Tower. 22px · 600 · 1.45
Playfair Display · body-quote
The quick brown fox jumpsTestimonial quotes, centred. 17px · 300 · 1.76
Poppins · label
The quick brown fox jumpsButtons Learn More, More Information, inputs. 13px · 400 · 1.54
Playfair Display · caption
The quick brown fox jumpsDates May 5, 2017 (grey on projects, blue on journal). 15px · 400 · 1.33
Spacing & shape
| Purpose | Value |
|---|---|
| Container | 940px (Webflow default), centred in the content area |
| Section rhythm | .section is 100px top and bottom with 20px sides; the newsletter strip (section less) is 50px |
| Breakpoints | 991px, 767px and 479px (Webflow defaults), plus some min-width: 768px rules |
Spacing scale
| Token | Value | Preview |
|---|---|---|
xs | 10px | |
sm | 20px | |
md | 30px | |
lg | 50px | |
xl | 70px |
Layout spacing
| Token | Value | Preview |
|---|---|---|
section-x | 20px | |
sidebar-pad-x | 40px | |
section-less | 50px | |
sidebar-pad-top | 70px | |
footer-bottom | 70px | |
section | 100px | |
footer-top | 100px |
Border radius
Surfaces
How the surfaces stack, from the page background up. Hex codes and roles are in Colors above.
Motion
| Hero entrance | Opacity 0 → 1, scale 0.75 → 1 and y 100px → 0, 1000ms outQuart on page load |
| Buttons | Background blue → green and shadow off, 400ms (transition: all .4s) |
| Social icons and nav links | Opacity 0.7 → 1 and the left blue line, 400ms |
| Image hover | scale 1 → 1.15 200ms outQuint, y 0 → −20px 200ms outSine, a filter change 200–400ms outSine |
| Tabs and dropdown | Size 400ms outCubic, border 200ms outSine |
| Menu slide | y −100% ↔ 0%, 400–500ms |
Do’s and don’ts
- Keep the fixed 300px blue photo sidebar with white links and the 2px blue active line.
- Use #0066B3 buttons with a 6px radius and the 0 10px 30px 20% shadow, turning #47B475 with no shadow on hover over 400ms.
- Centre section titles in Poppins 32px weight 600, #333333, ending with a full stop.
- Use Playfair Display only for accents: blue feature titles, tabs, dates, quotes and footer titles.
- Fade project photos into #0066B3 at the bottom.
- Alternate white, #F1F1F1 and #FAFAFA bands, with 100px vertical padding.
- Use #A7A7A7 body text below 15px or on the #F1F1F1 band for anything long: it is only about 2.4:1 on white. The template's real paragraph colour is this light grey; for accessible builds, darken body copy toward #818181 and keep #A7A7A7 for large quotes.
- Use #919191 dates or the green hover with small text: #919191 is about 3.2:1 and white on #47B475 about 2.6:1.
- Round tabs, arrows, cards or images.
- Add a second brand colour; green is a hover state, not an accent.
- Use Playfair for headings or buttons, or Poppins for the tabs and dates.
- Animate longer than 500ms outside the 1000ms hero entrance (the menu slide is the 500ms maximum).
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/orchi.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