flowmanceUltimate Design System
Ultimate is a black-and-white agency site built almost entirely from type. Big white Inter Tight headlines sit on pure black, the hero carries a single hand-drawn flourish, and the only colour on the page comes from the product photography in the work section. It reads as confident and sparse: lots of empty black, few elements per screen, and one white pill button.
Four signatures make it recognisable:
- The hand-drawn hero. The digital / marketing / agency. in white at 8vw, with a scribbled white underline under marketing, and a line-art paper plane trailing a dashed loop from the bottom-left corner.
- Viewport-sized single words. Section titles like Work (7vw), metrics like >15 and 1,340+ (9vw) and the footer call to action (9vw) fill the width of the screen, centred, with nothing around them.
- Two-tone lead paragraphs. The 29px lead starts in full white and fades to white at 60% mid-sentence: Ultimate leads in Webflow templates, then offering designs that users adore.
- Hairline service rows. Services sit in a right-hand column of rows split by 1px white-15% rules, the title on the left and the description on the right, with a sticky WORK WITH US ↗ link in the left column.
Ultimate is a dark-only design.
Colors
Surfaces
#000000Page background, every section, the nav and the overlay menu (--black)
#090909The cart panel, the only raised surface
#81818B · 50%The bottom border of contact fields
#FFFFFFFooter tag pills: black text and a 2px black border on white
Ink
#000000Text on primary
#FFFFFFHeadlines, labels, links, icons (--white)
#FFFFFF · 70%Paragraphs
#FFFFFF · 60%The faded second half of lead paragraphs
#FFFFFF#000000Text on inverse-canvas
Action
#FFFFFFEvery filled button: a white pill with black text
#777777Hover background of the solid .button (form submit), text turns white (--dark-grey)
Lines & effects
#FFFFFF · 15%1px rules between service rows
#FFFFFF · 20%Cart panel border and cart footer rule
Typography
Inter Tight · display-hero
The quick brown fox jumpsHero h1. 115px · 600 · 1.2
Inter Tight · headline-menu
The quick brown fox jumpsOverlay menu links (.text-line). 80px · 600 · 0.9
Inter Tight · title-lg
The quick brown fox jumpsLead paragraphs, Fun facts, A variety of high-end services. 29px · 600 · 1.4
Inter Tight · body-lg
The quick brown fox jumpsParagraphs, at 70% opacity; inputs at weight 400. 18px · 500 · 1.35
Inter Tight · label-button
The quick brown fox jumpsGet in touch pill. 19px · 600 · 1.05
Inter Tight · eyebrow
The quick brown fox jumpsWORK WITH US ↗. 15px · 700 · 1.33
Spacing & shape
| Purpose | Value |
|---|---|
| Container | max 1200px, centred (.container); the hero title block is capped at 1100px |
| Section rhythm | 130px top and bottom (.section) |
| Breakpoints | 991px, 767px and 479px (Webflow defaults), plus a 768px+ and a 1440px+ rule |
Spacing scale
| Token | Value | Preview |
|---|---|---|
xs | 8px | |
sm | 15px | |
md | 20px | |
lg | 30px | |
xl | 50px | |
2xl | 100px |
Layout spacing
| Token | Value | Preview |
|---|---|---|
work-band | 30px | |
footer-bottom | 40px | |
footer-top | 90px | |
section | 130px | |
hero-bottom | 160px | |
hero-top | 180px |
Border radius
Surfaces
How the surfaces stack, from the page background up. Hex codes and roles are in Colors above.
Motion
| Fade-up on scroll | opacity 0 → 1 over 1000ms outQuart (1250ms on some), y 40px → 0 over 1000ms outQuart |
| Headline line reveal | Text starts at y 200% and skewed 7° inside a clipped row, then moves to y 0% over 1100ms outQuint and the skew returns to 0° |
| Button hover | Label moves y 200% out over 500ms and the arrow moves in on the pill |
| Hover on cards | Background colour, filter and scale 1 each over 300ms ease; a press-in scale 0.8 over 300ms outQuad |
| Hamburger | Line width changes over 300ms ease; lines nudge ±6px over 500ms |
| Mouse-move | Elements drift with the cursor |
| CSS transitions | .button all .3s; .nav-link all .2s |
Do’s and don’ts
- Keep the page pure black #000000 with white #FFFFFF type and nothing else in the UI.
- Set paragraphs at 70% white (ink-muted) and split leads into a white clause and a 60% clause.
- Size single-word section titles and metrics in vw (7–9vw), weight 600, centred, alone on the screen.
- Use the white pill (button-primary, 30px radius, 56px tall, 19px weight 600) for the one main action.
- Keep images and cards square-cornered and separate service rows with 1px #FFFFFF26 rules.
- Pad sections 130px vertically and 5% horizontally.
- Use Inter Tight weight 600 for every heading.
- Add an accent colour or gradients. The orange belongs to the photos, not the UI.
- Round images, cards or inputs. Only buttons, tags and count circles are round.
- Put text on #777777 smaller than 18px weight 600; white on #777777 is about 4.5:1 and only works on the hover of the large solid button.
- Use drop shadows or blur. Depth comes from the sticky hero and sections sliding over it.
- Use the declared Hubotsans font or the unused alice-blue and honeydew variables.
- Add letter spacing to headlines. Only the rotator and the micro tags use +1px.
- Use full white for long body copy.
Example prompt
Any page in the Ultimate 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/ultimate.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