flowmancePortfolia Design System
Portfolia is a dark, single-person portfolio. It feels like a designer's showreel: a pure black page, a name set in huge wide uppercase letters, a smiling portrait cut into a yellow blob, and project rows of bright, saturated illustration and mockup images on black. Glossy, slightly blurred 3D shapes (a cube, a pyramid, a sphere, a torus, a gem) float over the layout and drift as you scroll.
Four signatures make it recognisable:
- Wide uppercase display type. Every heading uses the custom webfont face in uppercase with open +1 to +3px tracking: FRANKLIN FLORES at 144px, FEATURED WORK at 74px, project names at 48px.
- Italic Georgia counters. Small serif italics break up the sans: 1/4, 2/4 above each project title in 50% white, and a superscript /4 beside Featured Work.
- Outlined MENU pill. The header is only a stacked PORT / FOLIA logo, a thin vertical rule and a 2px white outline pill with spaced-out MENU. Everything else lives in a full-screen overlay menu.
- Floating 3D objects. Blurred glossy shapes sit on top of the grid at the edges of images and headings and move with scroll parallax.
Portfolia is a dark-only design.
Colors
Surfaces
#000000Page background, menu overlay
#212121Form fields and dark image tiles (the logo mockup tile)
#212121Input and textarea fill
#B26CF1Input border on hover and focus
#4A3AFFTextarea border on focus
Ink
#000000Text on primary
#FFFFFFHeadings, the second half of the hero lead, buttons' outlines
#FFFFFF · 60%Body copy: p and li default to #fff9
#FFFFFF · 50%Italic counters 1/4 and the /4 superscript
#FFFFFF · 40%Project tags (UI, UX, Development) and input placeholders
Action
#FFFFFFFilled pills (Download resume, submit, UP)
#FFFFFF#FFCE00Webflow variable --gold; the hero blob behind the portrait is this yellow (about)
#8338ECWebflow variable --blue-violet; matches the violet in the illustrations, not used on UI
Lines & effects
#FFFFFF · 40%The 1px rules between project rows
#FFFFFF2px outline of the MENU pill, the vertical rule beside the logo, the 3px menu underline, the blockquote's left rule
#FFFFFF · 60%1px dashed underline on .black-paragraph text
Typography
webfont · display-hero · shown in Syncopate (fallback)
The quick brown fox jumpsHero name FRANKLIN FLORES (two lines). 144px · 400 · 1.0 · 3px
webfont · headline-lg · shown in Syncopate (fallback)
The quick brown fox jumpsClosing heading Let's talk about the next big thing. 60px · 400 · 1.1 · 3px
webfont · title-sm · shown in Syncopate (fallback)
The quick brown fox jumpsAward names (The FWA Awards, awwwards). 17px · 400 · 1.12 · 1px
Georgia · label-count
The quick brown fox jumpsThe /4 superscript beside a section title. 27px · 400 · 1.1 · 3px
Satoshi · body-lg
The quick brown fox jumpsHero lead. 24px · 500 · 1.3
Satoshi · field
The quick brown fox jumpsInputs and placeholders. 16px · 500 · 1.25
Spacing & shape
| Purpose | Value |
|---|---|
| Container | max 1200px, centred |
| Section rhythm | 100px top and bottom (.section); the closing section uses 100px top and 50px bottom |
| Breakpoints | 991px, 767px and 479px (max-width), plus min-width steps at 768px and 1440px |
Spacing scale
| Token | Value | Preview |
|---|---|---|
xs | 10px | |
sm | 16px | |
md | 25px | |
lg | 30px | |
xl | 35px | |
2xl | 50px | |
3xl | 80px |
Layout spacing
| Token | Value | Preview |
|---|---|---|
nav-top | 35px | |
section-bottom-short | 50px | |
column-gap | 50px | |
section | 100px | |
hero-top | 150px |
Border radius
Surfaces
How the surfaces stack, from the page background up. Hex codes and roles are in Colors above.
Motion
| Fade in on scroll | opacity 0 → 1, 1000ms, outQuart (scroll into view) |
| Rise in | y 200px → 0, 500ms; text inside masks y 200% → 0%, 400–600ms ease |
| Small fade-up | opacity 0 → 1 with y 10px → 0, 400ms ease |
| 3D object parallax | While in view, objects move y −80px / +80px and x −80px, 500ms smoothing |
| Hover scale | scale 1 → 1.1, 100ms ease, and back to 1 on mouse out |
| Menu underline | Width grows, 300ms ease; 400ms outCubic on open |
| Menu open | Display toggles, a 500ms opacity fade, a 200ms ease rotate on the trigger |
| Nav on scroll | Moves y 0% on scroll up, 300ms ease |
| `MENU` pill hover | Letter spacing 4px → 2px, 300ms |
| Primary hover | filter: invert(80%), 300ms |
| Default transitions | 200ms |
Do’s and don’ts
- Set every heading in uppercase webfont 400 with +1 to +3px tracking, and every paragraph in Satoshi 500.
- Keep the page on canvas #000000 with ink #FFFFFF headings and ink-muted (white at 60%) body copy.
- Number projects with Georgia italic counters (1/4) in ink-subtle.
- Separate project rows with a 1px line (white at 40%) and alternate the image placement row by row.
- Use one white pill (button-primary, 40px radius, 54px tall) per screen, with an uppercase Satoshi 900 label and a chevron.
- Round images 12px and keep them untreated.
- Add colour to UI elements. #FFCE00 and #8338EC are image colours here, not button or link colours.
- Use ink-faint (white at 40%) for anything but 17px+ tags and placeholders; it is about 3.7:1 on black.
- Use lowercase or tight tracking on display headings, or set headings in Satoshi (except the overlay menu).
- Add box shadows or blur panels; depth comes from the floating 3D renders.
- Add inline nav links; the header is logo, rule and MENU only.
- Load Inter; it is declared in CSS but not used.
Example prompt
Any page in the Portfolia 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/portfolia.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