flowmancePeak Studio Design System
Peak Studio is a stark, type-driven agency site on pure black. It feels like a motion-design reel paused on a title card: one display family (Clash Display) at huge uppercase sizes, wide empty black around it, and a handful of clean product shots (a black helmet on red, a cream tube in a hand, a white fingerprint mark on grey) placed off-centre. Colour comes only from the photos.
Four signatures make it recognisable:
- The variable-weight wordmark. PEAK STUDIO is built from separate letters: PEAK at a heavy weight with each letter on a different baseline, then S bold and TUDIO hairline thin (weight 200). IX2 animates font-variation-settings per letter (600ms ease), so the weights shift as you move over them.
- Translucent pill navigation. Every nav link is its own 40px pill on white at 10%, with the active page at 20%. Left group Home, Studio, Work; centred square logo; right group Blog, Contact, Cart | 0.
- Uppercase 160px section titles with an em dash. SELECTED — WORK, set at 160px weight 500, centred, with a thin dash between the words.
- Hairline service grid. A 2×2 grid of four cells (Design, Development, Branding, Migration) with only 1px white-30% rules between them, a 55px centred title and a circled ↗ arrow in each top-right corner.
Peak Studio is a dark-only design.
Colors
Surfaces
#000000Page background (--main-color: black)
#000000 · 90%The about and closing sections, which sit over content behind them
#080808The only raised step: form fields
#080808The only raised step: form fields
#FFFFFF · 12%Inputs
#FFFFFF · 70%Placeholder text on field
Ink
#000000Text on primary
#FFFFFFTitles, wordmark, project names
#FFFFFF · 90%Nav pill labels
#FFFFFF · 70%Paragraphs (base p opacity 0.7), team roles
#FFFFFF · 50%Project categories (Logo, User Interface)
#FFFFFFText on secondary
#FFFFFFAny text over photos
Action
#FFFFFFThe white square submit button
#FFFFFF#222222Base .button, square, dark
#444444.button:hover
Lines & effects
#FFFFFF · 30%Service grid rules, the arrow circle border
#FFFFFF · 20%Secondary hairlines
#FFFFFF · 15%Cart border and cart footer rule
#FFFFFF · 10%Nav pills, normal and current page
#FFFFFF · 20%With glass: Nav pills, normal and current page
Typography
Clash Display · display-xl
The quick brown fox jumpsSELECTED — WORK, WHAT WE DO and other section titles (30 elements measured). 160px · 500 · 1.2
Clash Display · headline-lg
The quick brown fox jumpsService cell titles. 55px · 500 · 0.9
Clash Display · title-lg
The quick brown fox jumpsProject names (Vision Craft, Creative Pulse). 30px · 500 · 1.33
Clash Display · body-lg
The quick brown fox jumpsRoles and paragraphs, at 70%. 18px · 400 · 1.3
Clash Display · label
The quick brown fox jumpsNav pills, inputs. 15px · 500 · 1.33
Clash Display · eyebrow
The quick brown fox jumpsHero corner captions READY TO FIND YOUR NEXT / IDEAL TEMPLATE. 14px · 500 · 1.3
Spacing & shape
| Purpose | Value |
|---|---|
| Container | .container max 1440px, centred; one narrow 840px block |
| Section rhythm | .section is 150px top and bottom, 100px at ≤479 |
| Breakpoints | 991px, 767px and 479px, plus a 1280px step |
Spacing scale
| Token | Value | Preview |
|---|---|---|
xs | 9px | |
sm | 15px | |
md | 16px | |
lg | 30px | |
xl | 35px | |
2xl | 55px |
Layout spacing
| Token | Value | Preview |
|---|---|---|
gutter | 43px | |
hero-bottom | 100px | |
section | 150px | |
section-lg | 200px |
Border radius
Surfaces
How the surfaces stack, from the page background up. Hex codes and roles are in Colors above.
Motion
| Weight shift on hover | font-variation-settings change, 600ms ease |
| Pill size on hover | Size change, 300ms ease |
| Rise on scroll | y 20px → 0, 700ms ease; some from y −20px |
| Arrow circle pop | scale 0 → 1, 400ms outSine (500ms out) |
| Arrow nudge | x 3px, y −3px and back, 300ms ease |
| Filter change | filter on hover, 300ms ease |
| Slide-in | x 30px → 0, 800ms outExpo; x −30px → 0, 500ms outQuart |
| Page load | Opacity 0 → 1 and move to 0px, 1000ms outQuart |
| Scroll keyframes | y 10% → 0, small rotates, 500ms |
| Buttons | CSS transition: all 0.3s |
Do’s and don’ts
- Use #000000 for the page and only white with alpha (90 / 70 / 50%) for text.
- Set everything in Clash Display; use weight contrast (200 vs 500+) as the main expressive tool.
- Write section titles in uppercase at 160px with a spaced em dash between two words.
- Make nav links individual 40px pills on #FFFFFF1A, with #FFFFFF33 for the current page.
- Separate grid cells with 1px #FFFFFF4D hairlines instead of cards or fills.
- Stagger work images across a 9-column grid with 10vh between rows.
- Round images, cards, inputs or buttons; only nav pills and arrow circles are round.
- Add an accent colour or bring in the unused #F1F3F8 / #DFDBE6 variables as UI colours.
- Add drop shadows or grey panels; the only raised step is #080808 on fields.
- Use a second typeface. Instrument Sans is declared but not used.
- Put ink-subtle (50%) on text under 17px.
- Animate longer than 800ms except the 1000ms page-load fade.
Example prompt
Any page in the Peak Studio 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/peak.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