Studiō Design System
Studiō is a loud, poster-like creative studio site on near-black. The page opens on an electric violet gradient that fades to black, with three stacked words in huge uppercase Cabinet Grotesk, one of them drawn only as an outline. After the hero everything is quiet and dark: white uppercase section titles, plain white body text, square-cut photos in a two-column grid, and two coloured bands (cobalt for the numbers, violet for the closing call to action).
Four signatures make it recognisable:
- The fixed left sidebar. The STUDIŌ logo and five uppercase nav links (HOME, ABOUT, WORK, NEWS, CONTACT) sit in a 250px column pinned to the top left and stay there on every scroll position. Content starts to the right of it.
- Outlined display words. Some display words have transparent fill and a white stroke: DESIGN in the hero (3px stroke) and the fun-fact numbers 600+, 16, 99% (1px stroke). Solid and outlined words alternate.
- Numbered sections. Each section is a row: a light-weight index 01–05 (36px, weight 300) right-aligned in a narrow column, then the uppercase title (FEATURED WORK, OUR EXPERTISE, FUN FACTS) and its content.
- The violet hero. #8F00FF running down into the #151414 canvas, with a soft magenta glow (overlay-blend circle images) at the right edge, and a staggered three-line wordmark DIGITAL / DESIGN / STUDIO set right of centre.
Studiō is dark-only.
Colors
Surfaces
#151414Page background (--black), warm near-black
#111314.absolute-background, a full-cover dark panel that is hidden by default and shown by interactions
#151414Input bottom border on focus
Ink
#FFFFFFText on primary
#FFFFFF#FFFFFF#FFFFFFAll text: titles, nav, links
#FFFFFFBody text is full white too
#FFFFFFAction
#8F00FFHero field (--blue-violet-2) and the .button fill (form submit)
#B254FC.button:hover
#6B37D9The Ready to take off? CTA band (--blue-violet), blockquote rule
#374AD9The fun-facts band, faded into the canvas top and bottom
Lines & effects
#FFFFFF · 20%The track under underline links, accordion and info-row borders
#FFFFFFThe white fill line on underline links, the input bottom border, the date-pill border
#8F00FF · 30%Blog-card overlay: a 30% violet wash plus a gradient to 70% violet at the bottom
#8F00FF · 70%With media-tint: Blog-card overlay: a 30% violet wash plus a gradient to 70% violet at the bottom
#000000 · 40%Bottom gradient on work cards (#FFFFFF00 → #00000066)
Typography
Cabinet Grotesk · display-hero
The quick brown fox jumpsHero lines DIGITAL, DESIGN, STUDIO (.hero-display). 170px · 600 · 0.9 · 1px
Cabinet Grotesk · headline-lg
The quick brown fox jumpsSection titles (.display-2), margin-top −7px to align with the index. 55px · 500 · 1.3
Cabinet Grotesk · title-quote
The quick brown fox jumpsBlockquote in rich text, 2px secondary left rule. 26px · 500 · 1.3
Cabinet Grotesk · body-lg
The quick brown fox jumpsParagraphs (p). 19px · 400 · 1.2
Cabinet Grotesk · label-lg
The quick brown fox jumpsUnderline links Let's Talk, View Works, footer links. 19px · 600 · 1.16
Cabinet Grotesk · eyebrow
The quick brown fox jumpsFooter column titles MENU, CONTACT US. 18px · 600 · 1.5
Spacing & shape
| Purpose | Value |
|---|---|
| Container | 1100px max, centred, inside sections that pad 100px top and bottom and 5% on the right (72px at 1440) |
| Section row | .section is a flex row with a 50px gap: the index number column, then the content |
| Breakpoints | 991px, 767px, 479px |
Spacing scale
| Token | Value | Preview |
|---|---|---|
hair | 4px | |
xs | 10px | |
sm | 16px | |
md | 25px | |
lg | 40px | |
xl | 50px |
Layout spacing
| Token | Value | Preview |
|---|---|---|
logo-gap | 55px | |
cta | 85px | |
section | 100px | |
sidebar | 250px |
Border radius
Surfaces
How the surfaces stack, from the page background up. Hex codes and roles are in Colors above.
Motion
| Nav hover bar | White block translates y 101% → 0 under the link, 300ms ease; elements move between y 0% and −100% in 300ms ease |
| Underline grow | White 1px line width change over the 20% track, 300ms ease |
| Icon hover | scale 1 → 1.1, 100ms ease, and back |
| Social circle | White circle scale 0 → 1, 500ms |
| Scroll fade-in | opacity 0 → 1, 1000ms outQuart |
| Scroll rise | y 50px → 0 with opacity, 500ms; 600ms outExpo for the slower items |
| Heading wipe | A canvas-coloured block (.heading-overlay) slides off the title from translate x −100% |
| Arrow nudge | x 0 → 6px, 500ms outQuint |
| Button | all 200ms on .button |
Do’s and don’ts
- Keep the nav as a fixed 250px left sidebar with uppercase 18px weight-800 links.
- Number every section 01, 02… in 36px weight 300 beside a 55px uppercase title.
- Pair a solid display word with an outlined one (transparent fill, white stroke).
- Fade every coloured field into canvas #151414 at its edges.
- Use underline links (label-lg plus a 1px line that grows on hover) as the main call to action.
- Keep photos square-cornered and full-colour.
- Put grey or coloured text on the page. All text is #FFFFFF.
- Use violet #8F00FF for small UI details like icons or tags; it is a field colour and the one filled button.
- Round cards or images. Only the button (4px) and date pills (40px) are rounded.
- Add drop shadows or boxed panels; the template has none.
- Use negative letter spacing or lowercase display titles.
- Use more than one filled button in a section.
- Shrink button text below 19px weight 600: white on the #B254FC hover state is only 3.8:1, so it relies on the large label.
Example prompt
Any page in the Studiō 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/studio.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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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- Save
theme.cssnext to your main CSS file - Import it after Tailwind:
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