Color Tokens
Paper Warmth carries the page, Pure White lifts cards, and Notion Blue is reserved for the primary action. Flat accent colors paint feature panels like sticky notes.
Families & Type Scale
NotionInter carries product UI and large display copy. Lyon Text appears only at 18px and 32px as an editorial accent; Inter and Source Serif Pro are the open substitutes.
Font Families
Live Type Scale
Spacing & Shapes
A 4px base supports comfortable density. Major sections separate by 80px, cards carry 24px padding, and related elements use an 8px gap.
Spacing Scale
Radius Treatments
Shadow Tokens
Elevation is limited to the sticky navigation and the large product UI mockup. Content cards use hairline borders.
0 .7px 1.462px rgb(0% 0% 0%/.015), 0 3px 9px rgb(0% 0%
0%/.03)
0 4px 12px rgba(0,0,0,.1)
Surface System
Warm paper is the base, white cards sit above it, and flat accent or midnight panels punctuate the light page.
Live Component Examples
Compact controls sit on warm paper and white cards. Notion Blue marks the main action; color variety belongs to feature panels and status pills.
Product workspace
A white Notion interface with an 8px task-card rhythm, warm dividers, and one restrained elevation.
Do’s & Don’ts
Do · Preserve
- Use Paper Warmth (#f6f5f4) for the page and Pure White for cards.
- Reserve Notion Blue (#0075de) for one primary action per view.
- Use 1px rgba(0,0,0,.08) borders on content cards.
- Set cards at 12px, buttons at 8px, and pills at 9999px.
- Apply tight tracking to the 54px, 72px, and 96px display steps.
- Rotate marigold, coral, sky, and midnight across flat feature panels.
Don’t · Dilute
- Do not replace the warm canvas with a pure-white page.
- Do not add shadows to ordinary content cards.
- Do not introduce another chromatic filled-button color.
- Do not render every text role at full black.
- Do not use Lyon Text for navigation or product UI.
- Do not use gradients or oversized rectangular radii.